What level of comprehension is tested? Do the Lexile test questions include higher order reading skills such as inference and deduction?

Literacy Pro and Reading Pro are designed to measure how well students understand literary and expository texts of varying degrees of difficulty. They measure reading comprehension by focusing on the skills readers use when studying written materials from various content areas. These skills include identifying details in a passage, identifying cause-and-effect relationships and the sequence of events, drawing conclusions, and making comparisons and generalizations. Comprehension is measured using the Lexile Framework for Reading, a developmental scale instead of a grade equivalent scale. Because it is adaptive at the item-level, it responds to a student's answer and adjusts the following questions accordingly to become slightly more difficult or easier, ensuring an accurate final measurement.

Literacy Pro and Reading Pro use  the embedded completion item format, which is similar to the fill-in-the-blank or cloze format and directly assesses the reader’s ability to draw inferences and establish logical connections between the ideas in the passage. Questions do include higher order reading skills to help select the correct answer for higher level students.