Making the connection between research and reality: Strategies teachers use to read and evaluate journal articles.

This investigation of domain-specific professional reading clarifies the way 12 teachers who are professionally active select and read the journals and research articles in their fields. Using verbal protocol analysis and interviews, the authors identified and classified reading think-aloud reports into 5 categories: using strategies, connecting to practice, monitoring, questioning, and evaluating. The teachers in this study created meaning in complex and personal ways as they read. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)