Reading Comprehension Research: Implications for Practice and Policy
By Amy M. Elleman, Eric L. Oslund. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019
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Reading comprehension is one of the most complex cognitive activities in which humans engage, making it difficult to teach, measure, and research. Despite decades of research in reading comprehension, international and national reading scores indicate stagnant growth for U.S. adolescents. In this article, we review the theoretical and empirical research in reading comprehension. We first explore different theoretical models for comprehension and then focus on components shown to be important across models that represent potential targets for instruction. In the last part of the article, we consider solutions for translating research to practice and policies for improving instruction. Improving reading scores will require a concerted and collaborative effort by researchers, educators, and policy makers with a focus on long-term solutions. An early and sustained focus on developing background knowledge, vocabulary, inference, and comprehension monitoring skills across development will be necessary to improve comprehension.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability
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- How Reading Motivation and Engagement Enable Reading Achievement: Policy Implications (2020, methodology): “The cognitive components of reading comprehension have been rigorously tested (see Elleman & Oslund, 2019).”