Content domain and process All items New items Trend items Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Total items 135 100 60 100 75 100 Purposes of reading Literary experience 72 53 33 55 39 52 Acquire and use information 63 47 27 45 36 48 Processes of comprehension Focuson and retrieve explicitly stated information 33 24 14 23 19 25 Makes traightforward inferences 46 34 20 33 26 35 Interpret and integrate ideas and information 38 28 18 30 20 27 Examine and evaluate content, language, and textual elements 18 13 8 13 10 13
Item Format Number ofitems Percent ofitems Total 135 100 Multiple choice 74 55 Constructed response 61 45