Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...

The results come as reading scores among U.S. fourth and eighth grade students worsened in 2024, according to the National ...

Students in Singapore and parts of China had the highest scores on the test known as PISA. Scores for American students were ...

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 ...

Alibaba and Microsoft put their AI to the test this month, literally. And their scores bested ours, but barely. According to the SQuAD website, it is a machine reading comprehension dataset comprising ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...