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Trend Task:
Reading Record – Fiction |
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| Questions/instructions: |
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| %
responses 2004 ('00) ['96] |
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| y4
 |
y8 |
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| Reading Band: | 5
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35
(25) [10] |
66
(53) [51] |
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4
|
29
(27) [20] |
23
(28) [29] |
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3
|
22
(24) [29] |
7
(15) [11] |
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2
|
7
(12) [22] |
3
(2) [7] |
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1
|
2
(7) [9] |
0
(2) [1] |
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0
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5
(5) [10] |
1
(0) [1] |
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| Commentary: This task has been described as a trend task because comparable data are presented from 2000 (and 1996). However, for technical reasons associated with maintaining long-term trend data for oral reading, the texts used are not being revealed. In essence, this task is being used both to provide trend information and as a link task for the 2008 assessments. After the substantial improvement for year 4 students between 1996 and 2000 that was reported four years ago, and paralleled then by increases on other oral reading and reading comprehension tasks, the results here show that the improvement four years ago, for year 4 students, has been maintained for that cohort of students in the year 8 results this time, with 13 percent more year 8 students scoring in the highest reading band in 2004 than in 2000. For year 4 students, the 2004 results show further improvement, with 64 percent of the students scoring in the top two bands, compared to 52 percent in 2000 and 30 percent in 1996. |
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