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 ...

Participants in 401(k) plans aren't smart about financial literacy, a survey from AllianceBernstein shows. Nor could most of them answer these 8 questions about finances. New research from ...

The latest numbers on financial literacy are out, and they aren't pretty. U.S. adults got just 49% of the questions right on this year's personal finance index test, according to the 2025 Personal ...

The Pew Charitable Trusts recently published a 10-question health literacy quiz, which features questions on cancer, infectious diseases and gut health, among other topics. October is Health Literacy ...

In my September 2024 “Money Smart Women” column, I referred to the “Big Three,” a trio of multiple-choice questions designed more than 20 years ago to measure respondents’ knowledge of the ABCs of ...