1. Sheila W. Valencia received her PhD in reading education from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1978 and is currently an assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work is focused on reading comprehension assessment, the development of alternative assessment strategies, and the link between assessment and instruction. Dr. Valencia is also a co-director of the Illinois Reading Assessment Program.
2. P. David Pearson is a professor of elementary and early childhood education, codirector of the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and co-director of the Illinois Reading Assessment Program. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1969. His research interests are in reading comprehension instruction and assessment. He has published numerous articles on reading comprehension and is the editor of the Handbook of Reading Research.