Post on 28-Dec-2015
Otis FultonSenior Vice President
MetaMetrics, Inc.ofulton@lexile.com
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Topics Lexile Development Lexiles Today Lexile Overview and Theory Communicating with Parents Matching Readers and Text
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Lexile Development
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State of the Union - Yesterday Founded in 1984 R&D firm focused on integrating
assessment and instruction Research funded by five grants
from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Commercialized The Lexile Framework for Reading in 1997
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MetaMetrics SBIR Grants
Title of Grant Grant Number Grant Number
Development of a ConstructMeasurement System forReading
Phase I—$50,000 HD 19448-01(1984)
Development of a ConstructMeasurement System forReading
Phase II—$498,000 HD 19448-02(1986-1988)
A Construct MeasurementSystem for ListeningComprehension
Phase I—$48,000 HD 19234-30(1988-1989)
Construct Generalization:A Meta-Analytic Tool
Phase I—$50,000 HD 25358-01(1989)
Construct Generalization:A Meta-Analytic Tool
Phase II—$500,000 HD 25358-02(1994-1995)
Awarding Agency: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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The Lexile Framework™ for Reading An educational tool that links text
and readers under a common metric-- Lexiles
Characterizes reader with a measure and text with a measure
Allows educators to forecast the level of comprehension a reader is expected to experience with a particular text
Lexiles Today
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All major norm reference tests are linked Over 19-million students will get a Lexile
measure from a linked test in 2004-05 Over 450 book publishers have titles with
Lexile measures Nearly 50,000* books to search at
www.lexile.com Over 70 million Lexiled articles through
database-services partners
State of the Union - Today
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Test Publishers NWEA: MAPS, Achievement Level Tests Harcourt: SAT-10, SAT-9, MAT-8, SDRT-4,
Aprenda Riverside: The Iowa Tests (ITBS, ITED), GMRT-4 CTB/McGraw-Hill: TerraNova Assessment Series Scholastic: SRI, SRI-Interactive, Reading
Counts!, Read180, iRead
State of the Union - Today
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State of the Union - Today 3 National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES) studies"Lexiles provide a more accurate measure of grade
appropriateness" (Binkley, 13)
"Assessing the Lexile Framework: Results of a Panel Meeting," White, S. April 2001, http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/200108.pdf
"A Content Comparison of the NAEP and PIRLS Fourth-Grade Reading Assessments," Binkley, M. April 2003, http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/200310.pdf
“International Comparisons in Fourth-Grade Reading Literacy: Findings from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 2001,” Ogle L. April 2003, http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003073.pdf
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State Adoptions California (6.1M students, STAR) Texas (4.1M students, TAKS) North Carolina (1.3M students, NCEOG) Utah (500K students, UCA) Idaho (246K students, ISAT) Hawaii (185K students, SAT-9, SAT-10) Wyoming (90K students, WyCAS) Oregon (250 K via Reading First grant) Florida: 90% of districts, including Duval,
Broward, Miami-Dade and Pinellas Other states get optional Lexile reports
State of the Union - Today
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Database Services Allow educators to supplement
textbook instruction and reading with periodicals, newspapers, reference books & transcripts
EBSCO: 8M Lexiled at www.ebsco.com Bigchalk: 60M Lexiled at
www.bigchalk.com Follett Library Services: Library MARC
records can be updated with Lexile measures, info at www.fsc.follett.com
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A non-proprietary standard
Many ways (linking technologies) to place a student on the scale
Many publishers have adopted the standard
“Connects the year-to-year with the day-to-day.”
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The Unification of Reading
Reading MotivationEBSCO Online Reader
Hooked on PhonicsHOSTS
Scholastic Read180Scholastic Reading Counts!
Success for All
Periodical DatabasesBigchalk/ProQuest
EBSCONoveList
PearsonScholasticRand McNally
Rigby RosenSRA/McGraw-Hill
Book Distributors & Databases
Baker & TaylorThe Book Source
Follett Library ServicesFollett Software Co.
IngramRRBowkerSundance
Test Publishers
School/Public Libraries
Follett Software Company Follett Library Services
Mackin Library Media
PrebindersThe Booksource
DEMCOEconoclad
Permabound
Bound-to-Stay Bound
Textbook PublishersAddison-Wesley
Britannica
Globe-Fearon
Holt Rinehart & WinstonHoughton Mifflin
Prentice Hall
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Hampton-BrownHarcourt School Publishers
SRA/McGraw-HillScott Foresman
Steck-VaughnThe Wright Group
Trade Book PublishersModern Curriculum
Scott Foresman
CrabtreeDomineeDK Publishing
Lee & Low
Globe-FearonHampton BrownHarcourtHoltLeapfrog
Glencoe/McGraw-HillEducational Testing Services (ETS)Harcourt Educational Measurement
North Carolina Department of Public InstructionNorthwest Evaluation Association
Riverside PublishingTexas Education Agency
Utah State Office of Education
CTB/McGraw-Hill
Lexile Overview and Theory
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Three Important Concepts Reading Ability
The cognitive set students use to construct meaning from text, as measured on tests
Readability The difficulty of reading materials, based on
dimensions or characteristics of the text Reading Comprehension
The construction of meaning, from local text
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Lexile Framework Components
The Lexile MapThe Lexile Analyzer
LinkingTechnology
TestofReadingDevelopment
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Determining text difficulty Syntactic Complexity
the number of words per sentence longer sentences are more complex
and require more short-term memory to process
Semantic Difficulty the frequency of the words in a
corpus of written text corpus has over 650-million words
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Placing texts on the map
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John Grisham titlesThe Pelican Brief 660The Firm 680The Client 730The Testament 770A Time to Kill 770A Painted House 780The Partner 790The Street Lawyer 790The Brethren 810The Chamber 810The Rainmaker 830The Runaway Jury 930
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Michael Crichton titlesRising Sun 540Disclosure 590Sphere 610Timeline 620Airframe 640A Case of Need 650The Lost World 670The Terminal Man 690Jurassic Park 710The Andromeda Strain 840Congo 940The Great Train Robbery 1060Eaters of the Dead 1090
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Lexiles and Newspapers Reuters (1440L) NY Times (1380L) Washington Post (1350L) Wall Street Journal (1320L) Chicago Tribune (1310L) Associated Press (1310L) USA Today (1200L)
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Lexile Calculator Forecasted Comprehension
The relationship between a reader and a text. How well the reader will comprehend the material
in the text.
Can perform the following calculations: The rate at which a student is expected to
comprehend of the text. The reading ability a reader is expected to need
in order to comprehend the text at a specific level.
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Lexile Calculator Forecasted comprehension rates:
Reader measure – text calibration = O Lexiles, 75% comprehension
Reader measure – text calibration = --250 Lexiles, 50% comprehension
Reader measure – text calibration = +250 Lexiles, 90% comprehension
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Lexile Calculator Can help you better deliver
instruction by knowing in advance which students: are likely to need extra help with a
lesson will understand the material on their
own
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Placing readers on the mapHarcourt Educational SAT-9 and SAT-8 [SAT-10, 2004]
Measurement SDRT MAT-8
CTB/McGraw-Hill TerraNova Assessment Series
Riverside Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills [Fall, 2003]
Scholastic SRI and SRI-Interactive, iRead
NWEA Achievement Level Tests (ALT)
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)
North Carolina North Carolina End-of-Grade Test
Oregon State Assessment of Reading/Literature
Utah Core Assessment Series, Basic Skills Test
Texas Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS)
Wyoming [under development]
Communicating with Parents
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Communicating with Parents Don’t get too focused on numbers
– ranges are important. Give examples of books and other
text materials. Talk about where the student is
now, but also where they are going!
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Communicating with Parents Emphasize that the Lexile
Framework does not address: interest, age appropriateness, text support, or text quality.
It looks only at text difficulty – books should always be previewed.
Matching Readers and Text
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