Reading for Understanding Toward an R & D Program in Reading Comprehension
by Snow, CatherineFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-04-24
Publisher(s): RAND Corporation
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Summary
The Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) asked RAND to examine how OERI might improve the quality and relevance of the education research it funds. The RAND Reading Study Group was charged with developing a research agenda to address the most pressing issues in literacy and the teaching of reading.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. iii |
| Figures | p. vii |
| Tables | p. ix |
| Executive Summary | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
| Rand Reading Study Group and Rand Staff | p. xxv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Defining Comprehension | p. 11 |
| Variability in Reading Comprehension | p. 19 |
| A Research Agenda for Improving Reading Comprehension | p. 29 |
| Strategies for Developing a Research Program on Reading Comprehension | p. 61 |
| Afterword | p. 73 |
| An Expanded Review of the Research on Variability in Reading Comprehension | p. 75 |
| Outline of a Sample Request for Application | p. 111 |
| References | p. 119 |
| Biographical Sketches | p. 147 |
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Develops a research agenda to address the most pressing issues in literacy and the teaching of reading.
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