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Reading for Understanding: Toward an R&D Program in Reading Comprehension

by Catherine Snow. 156 pgs.

Contributors:

   Catherine Snow

Publisher:

   Rand

Place of Publication:

  Santa Monica, CA  

Publication Year:

  2002

Subjects:

Reading Comprehension--Research, Reading--Research

	Preface	iii
	Figures	vii
	Tables	ix
	Executive Summary	xi
	Acknowledgments	xxiii
	RAND Reading Study Group and RAND Staff	xxv
	Chapter One     INTRODUCTION	1
	Study Methodology	1
	Research Challenges	2
	The Issues Motivating This Study	4
	Much Is Already Known About Improving Comprehension	8
	The Need for a Definition of Reading Comprehension	9
	Chapter Two     DEFINING COMPREHENSION	11
	The Reader	13
	The Text	14
	The Activity	15
	The Context	16
	Chapter Three     VARIABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION	19
	Variability in Readers	19
	Sociocultural Influences	20
	Group Differences	21
	Inter-Individual Differences	22
	Intra-Individual Differences	23
	Variability in Text	24
	Variability in Activity	26
	Variability in the Context	28
	Chapter Four     A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR IMPROVING READING            COMPREHENSION	29
	Comprehension Instruction	29
	What We Already Know About Comprehension Instruction	30
	What We Need to Know About Comprehension Instruction	44
	Teacher Education and Professional Development in Reading           Comprehension	47
	What We Already Know About Teacher Preparation	50
	What We Need to Know About Teacher Preparation	51
	What We Already Know About Teacher Professional           Development	51
	What We Need to Know About Teacher Professional           Development	52
	Assessment of Reading Comprehension	52
	What We Already Know About Comprehension Assessments	53
	What We Need in the Area of Comprehension Assessments	54
	Key Issues the Research Agenda Should Address	58
	Chapter Five     STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING A RESEARCH PROGRAM ON            READING COMPREHENSION	61
	Prerequisites to Establishing an Excellent Educational Research           Program	61
	Establishing Priorities	61
	Building on Strengths	64
	Improving the Status of Educational Research	64
	Methods Appropriate to the Task	66
	The Research Infrastructure: Organizing for Programmatic Research           on Reading Comprehension	69
	Afterword	73
	Appendix A. AN EXPANDED REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH ON VARIABILITY      IN READING COMPREHENSION	75
	B. OUTLINE OF A SAMPLE REQUEST FOR APPLICATION.	111
	References	119
	Biographical Sketches	147

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