Speed reading is a skill most people assume they either have or don't — this test gives you an actual data point. Five levels ...

Standardized tests are typically the basis for establishing grade level. But test scores themselves don’t indicate ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As the summer approaches, the potential for a decline in students’ reading comprehension and skills is a possibility. Lowcountry author Sherika Meyers and South Carolina ...

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 ...

But where did the number come from? It was generated by a mathematical readability formula. Invented in the 1920s after science teachers expressed a desire for more simplified texts for their students ...

Much prior research on reading has focused on a specific level of processing, with this often being letters, words, or sentences. Here, for the first time in adult readers, we provide a combined ...