As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

The quality of reading comprehension test items may be determined, in part, by computing an index that indicates the extent to which correct answers to such items can be identified in the absence of ...

Sarah G. Wood, Sara A. Hart, Callie W. Little and Beth M. Phillips Past research suggests that reading comprehension test performance does not rely solely on targeted cognitive processes such as word ...

More than 1 in 3 children in kindergarten through grade 3 have little chance of reading on grade level by the end of the school year without major and systemic interventions. That’s according to a new ...