The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has awarded $2.3 million to Jack Vevea of UC Merced, and Judith Scott and Susan Flinspach of UC Santa Cruz to develop and ...

Similarly, on an oral vocabulary test, English-language-learning kindergarteners could provide definitions for 21 more words than they could before the program, ...

The first-of-its-kind National Assessment of Educational Progress report suggests a consistent relationship between performance on vocabulary questions and the ability of students to comprehend a ...

Some people suffer incipient dementia as they get older. To make up for this loss, the brain's cognitive reserve is put to the test. Researchers have studied what factors can help to improve this ...

This Is How the New SAT Will Test Vocabulary. 5 minute read. By Katy Steinmetz. April 16, 2014 4:29 AM EDT. G raduating seniors can throw their flash cards on the celebratory bonfire next year.

Eighth-graders scored an average of 265 out of 500 in vocabulary on the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress, the results of which were made public Thursday. Fourth-graders averaged a ...

The English vocabulary test consists of 67 real words and 33 nonwords. The nonwords consist of letter sequences that look like real words, but they are not.