Hi everyone. I have really enjoyed following the posts to this list and exchanging information and ideas with a number of members. We seem like a wonderfully diverse and supportive group. I am hoping to get to my first conference this year in Toronto so that I can begin to make personal contact. I am writing to let interested individuals know of a project we are working on at the University of Connecticut and to request advice. First the work. This year we are conducting a reanalysis of the 2002 US National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data on reading (national data of reading achievement in the US). We seek to develop a factor analytic model of relationships between reading achievement and technology use by race, class, and gender. Part of this work also involves completing a research review of experimental and quasi-experimental studies of reading, reading comprehension, and learning among K-12 (roughly ages 5-18) students within Internet contexts. The purpose of this review is to inform both the factor analytic model we are developing as well as to inform the development of the next NAEP assessment, with an eye to possibly expanding NAEP’s current definition of reading to include reading on the Internet in their assessment. Now the request for advice. We have started an extensive review of the literature for this last part of the project using the traditional tools: PsychInfo, ERIC, Soc Abstracts, etc. As part of our procedures, we are also querying experts as to the most important journals where this type of work appears and to the most important studies with which they are familiar on reading, reading comprehension, and learning within K-12 Internet contexts. If you are familiar with this area of study, could you provide the titles of the most important journals publishing this type of work and/or any critically important studies that we should not overlook. If it seems appropriate, please send this to me off list. (djleu@uconn.edu). Many thanks! Cheers, Don -- Donald J. Leu John & Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology University of Connecticut Office: 860.486.0202 Home page: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/ Visit the Literacy Web: http://www.literacy.uconn.edu " Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies." -- Geraldine Ferraro, Acceptance speech at the 1984 Democratic Party National Convention