Appendix 1

Sample items

The sample items presented on the following pages show examples of the tasks that were developed for the pilot study. These are tasks that have been discarded for the main survey; however, they provide an idea of the types of tasks used in the final selection of items.

The tables accompanying them provide a broad analysis of each item that includes a few facet designations, the theoretical difficulty summary score that was assigned (ranging from 5, easiest, to 19, most difficult), and the difficulty statistics that were gathered during the pilot study.