Each April, all 3rd through 5th graders in my school take the DC-CAS—a standardized, summative assessment of grade-level skills in reading and math. It is a grueling eight-day test paralyzing the ...

A new book argues for the importance of national assessments in the U.S. but overlooks the negative impact of "reading" tests. Few Americans know much about the standardized tests collectively known ...

It is among the most common of nightmares. You dream of taking a test for which you are completely unprepared — you’ve never studied the material or even attended the course. For millions of American ...

Avid readers of fiction score better on international tests, but simply encouraging all students to read fiction for pleasure is unlikely to equip them to understand the expository text they'll be ...

On Monday I wrote about my anxiety regarding a summer reading-enrichment class I’d enrolled my daughter in. I worried that the class would diminish her love of reading. Also, although the class ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

According to Oklahoma Department of Education, about 80 percent of the state’s third-graders passed reading tests with scores good enough to allow them to move up to fourth grade. However, statistics ...

Last spring, Chicago Public Schools officials were heartened by some long-awaited good news: Average reading scores for the system’s students on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were rising. It appeared ...