The final Reading Report, Reading for Understanding: Toward a R&D Program in Reading Comprehension is now available online. Because the report itself is quite long, we recommend that you view it chapter-by-chapter. To view the files, you must have Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or higher. To open the relevant PDF, click on the chapter titles in the table of contents below.

The report is also available as a single PDF file.

Contents

Preface

Figures

Tables

Executive Summary

Acknowledgments

RAND Reading Study Group RAND Staff

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Defining Comprehension

Chapter 3: Variability in Reading Comprehension

Chapter 4: A Research Agenda for Improving Reading Comprehension

Chapter 5: Strategies for Developing a Research Program on Reading Comprehension

Afterword

Appendix A: An Expanded Review of the Research on Variability in Reading Comprehension

Appendix B: Outline of a Sample Request for Application

References

Biographical Sketches