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MetaMetrics, Inc.ofulton@lexile.com

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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

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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

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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

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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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