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Several key questions about assessment follow: Given this analysis, two impor-
tant questions about assessment need to be answered:
• What would it take to design valid and reliable measures of student self-
regulated strategic reading that teachers can administer in the classroom to
inform their instructional decisions and to identify children who may need
additional instruction?
• What would it take to design measures of reading comprehension that are
sensitive to instructional interventions as well as to specific forms of read-
ing instruction for all readers?

RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS TO MAKE THE PROPOSED
RESEARCH PROGRAM FEASIBLE
For the RRSG's proposed research program to develop to the point that it can
actually improve comprehension outcomes, the research program infrastruc-
ture will need to be improved in a number of ways:
• The research program will require substantial, long-term funding that is
sustained across administrations and political constituencies.
• The program will require intellectual leadership that extends over a sub-
stantial period of time and that is insulated from political influence.
• The program will be sustainable only if procedures for synthesizing knowl-
edge across the various individual research activities are planned in ad-
vance.
• The program will require a cadre of investigators who are well trained for
the research work.
• Research solicitations must be thoughtful, scholarly, and responsive to the
intellectual resources available within the research community.
• The rigor and quality of the research review must be increased, a process
that will require training reviewers and maintaining a systematic review
system.

The program of research and development that we outline would require
funding resources beyond those currently available to the Department of
Education. The current expenditures on education research and development
(R&D) are only 0.3 percent of the total national expenditures for K–12 educa-
tion, a percentage far less than that devoted to R&D in other fields, such as
health. The RRSG believes that the investment in education R&D should be
gradually expanded to 2 to 3 percent of the total expenditures for K–12 educa-

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