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NAEP Instruments → Cognitive Items and Instruments → Development of the Reading Cognitive Items and Instruments → Number of Reading Items, by Purpose for Reading and Grade: 2005
| Grade | Total |
Reading for literary experience |
Reading to gain information |
Reading to perform a task |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 99 | 50 | 49 | † |
| 8 | 142 | 40 | 59 | 43 |
| 12 | 115 | 27 | 57 | 31 |
| † The scale "reading to perform a task" was not assessed at grade 4. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2005 Reading Assessment. |
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Last updated 21 August 2008 (JL)
