1. Robert James Tierney is an associate professor at the University of Arizona. His major interests are in the area of the cognitive processes underlying reading and psychometrics. He has served as chairperson of the International Reading Association Committee on the Interpretation and Analysis of the National Assessment of Educational Progress in Reading and is a member of the National Assessment of Educational Progress Reading/Literature Advisory Committee. He has heen a teacher, consultant, and...
2. Wilbur S . Ames is an associate professor at the University of Arizona. His major research interests are in the areas of secondary reading, readability, and measurement of reading. He has published research articles in several professional Journals and is the co-author of two texts in the secondary reading area. He holds an EdD degree from the University of Missouri.