"Advances in Education Research" reprints previously published journal articles reporting on research supported in whole or in part by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The articles are selected from peer-reviewed/referred journals; the journals used are described briefy at the end of the volume. The articles in this volume are all concerned with reading comprehension and subject-area learning: (1) "The Contribution of Prior Knowledge and Coherent Text to Comprehension" (Margaret G. McKeown, Isabel L. Beck, Gale M. Sinatra, and Jane A. Loxterman); (2) "Inclass or Pullout: Effects of Setting on the Remedial Reading Program" (Rita M. Bean, William W. Cooley, R. Tony Eichelberger, Meryl K. Lazar, and Naomi Zigmond); (3) "Individual Differences in Reprocessing of Text" (Dieter Haenggi and Charles A. Perfetti); (4) "The Process of Understanding: Reading for Literary and Informative Purposes" (Judith A. Langer); (5) "What Influences Learning? A Content Analysis of Review Literature" (Margaret C. Wang, Geneva D. Haertel, and Herbert J. Walberg); (6) "Revising Social Studies Text from a Text-Processing Perspective: Evidence of Improved Comprehensibility" (Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, Gale M. Sinatra, and Jane A Loxterman); and (7) "Sense Making and the Solution of Division Problems Involving Remainders: An Examination of Middle School Students' Solution Processes and Their Interpretations of Solutions" (Edward A. Silver, Lora J. Shapiro, and Adam Deutsch). Each article contains references. (SLD)