STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Prospective teachers in New York State will no longer have to take the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST), an exam designed to measure reading and writing ability. State ...

Sample questions from test measuring basic thinking skills Tests are taken on a laptop computer in the test-taker%27s home Literacy%2C math%2C problem-solving are the areas measured by the tests These ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — ...

Brokers, financial advice providers, and many others need to test peoples’ ability to manage their money. Nevertheless, there are some who debate such tests arguing that they aren’t useful for ...

Only 27% of U.S. adults passed a seven-question quiz about basic financial concepts, according to results from the FINRA ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors often assume they're explaining things in a way patients understand. When patients are confused, doctors don't always realize it. A new study shows patients might ...

More than half — 57% — of Americans who took an eight-question quiz measuring financial literacy flunked, according to the National Financial Educators Council, which created the quiz. Some 10,508 ...