1. for Reading & Quantile Framework for Math
The Lexile Framework
for Reading & Quantile Framework for Math
Otis Fulton
Senior Vice President
MetaMetrics, Inc.
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2. Topics Lexile Development Lexiles Today Lexile Overview and Theory
Communicating with Parents
Matching Readers and Text
Quantile Framework for Mathematics
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3. Lexile Development
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4. State of the Union - Yesterday
MetaMetrics 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
Grant history:
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5. MetaMetrics SBIR Grants
Awarding Agency: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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6. 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
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7. Lexiles Today
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8. State of the Union - Today
All major norm referenced tests are linked
Over 20-million students will get a Lexile measure off a linked test in
Over 450 book publishers have titles with Lexile measures
Nearly 115,000 books to search at
Over 70 million Lexiled articles through database services partners
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9. State of the Union - Today
Test Publishers
Harcourt: SAT-10, SAT-9, MAT-8, SDRT-4
Riverside: The Iowa Tests (ITBS, ITED), GMRT-4
CTB/McGraw-Hill: TerraNova Assessment Series
Pearson: Pearson Assessment System (PAS) Reading
NWEA: Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)
Scholastic: SRI, SRI-Interactive, Reading Counts!, Read180, iRead
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10. State of the Union - Today
3 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,
"A Content Comparison of the NAEP and PIRLS Fourth-Grade Reading Assessments," Binkley, M. April 2003,
“International Comparisons in Fourth-Grade Reading Literacy: Findings from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of 2001,” Ogle L. April 2003,
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11. States Using The Lexile Framework
Currently Using Lexiles
In Active Discussion -
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12. State of the Union - Today
Database Services
Allow educators to supplement textbook instruction and reading with periodicals, newspapers, reference books & transcripts
EBSCO: 8M Lexiled at
Proquest: 60M Lexiled at
Follett Library Services: Library MARC records can be updated with Lexile measures, info at
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13. The Unification of Reading
Textbook Publishers
Addison-Wesley
Britannica
Globe-Fearon
Holt Rinehart & Winston
Houghton Mifflin
Prentice Hall
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Hampton-Brown
Harcourt School Publishers
SRA/McGraw-Hill
Scott Foresman
Trade Book Publishers
Test Publishers
CTB/McGraw-Hill
Crabtree
Dominee
DK Publishing
Lee & Low
Globe-Fearon
Hampton Brown
Harcourt
Holt
Leapfrog
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Modern Curriculum
Educational Testing Services (ETS)
Pearson
Harcourt Educational Measurement
Scholastic
Rand McNally
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Rigby
Northwest Evaluation Association
Rosen
SRA/McGraw-Hill
Riverside Publishing
Scott Foresman
Texas Education Agency
Steck-Vaughn
Utah State Office of Education
The Wright Group
Prebinders
The Booksource
DEMCO
Econoclad
Permabound
Bound-to-Stay Bound
Periodical Databases
Bigchalk/ProQuest
EBSCO
NoveList
Over 70 educational companies have adopted the Lexile Framework
SRA/McGraw-Hill “Open Court Reading” materials for grades 1 through 6 now linked to the Lexile Framework
10M+ students receive a Lexile measure when they take a standardized reading assessment
Book Distributors & Databases
School/Public Libraries
Baker & Taylor
The Book Source
Follett Library Services
Follett Software Co.
Ingram
RRBowker
Sundance
Follett Software Company
Follett Library Services
Mackin Library Media
Reading Motivation
EBSCO Online Reader
Hooked on Phonics
HOSTS
Scholastic Read180
Scholastic Reading Counts!
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Success for All

14. A non-proprietary standard
Many ways (assessments) 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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15. Lexile Overview and Theory
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16. Three Key Concepts Reading Ability Readability Reading Comprehension
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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17. Lexile Framework Components
The Lexile
Analyzer
The Lexile Map
Linking
Technology
Test of
Reading
Development
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18. 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 one billion words
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19. Placing texts on the map
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20. Lexile Map for Oregon Department of Education
NOTES:
TWO VERSIONS OF THE LEXILE MAP NOW AVAILABLE ON OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S WEB SITE: ONE FOR EDUCATORS, WITH A LETTER FROM STATE SUPERINTENDENT SUSAN CASTILLO, AND ONE FOR PARENTS AVAILABLE FOR DISTRICTS TO CUSTOMIZE WITH THEIR OWN LETTER
GE’S AS TEXT DEMAND PER GRADE LEVEL
CUSTOMIZED MAP
TEST TEXT AND DOUBLE JEOPARDY
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21. John Grisham titles
The Pelican Brief The Firm The Client The Testament A Time to Kill A Painted House The Partner The Street Lawyer The Brethren The Chamber The Rainmaker The Runaway Jury
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22. John Grisham titles
The Pelican Brief The Firm The Client The Testament A Time to Kill A Painted House The Partner The Street Lawyer 790 The Brethren The Chamber The Rainmaker The Runaway Jury 930
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23. Michael Crichton titles
Rising Sun Disclosure Sphere Timeline Airframe A Case of Need The Lost World The Terminal Man Jurassic Park The Andromeda Strain Congo The Great Train Robbery Eaters of the Dead
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24. Michael Crichton titles
Rising Sun Disclosure Sphere Timeline Airframe A Case of Need The Lost World The Terminal Man 690 Jurassic Park The Andromeda Strain 840 Congo The Great Train Robbery 1060 Eaters of the Dead 1090
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25. Lexiles and Newspapers
Reuters
NY Times
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
Chicago Tribune
Associated Press
USA Today
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26. 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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27. Lexile Calculator
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28. Lexile Calculator Forecasted comprehension rates:
Reader measure – text calibration = O Lexiles, 75% comprehension
Reader measure – text calibration = Lexiles, 50% comprehension
Reader measure – text calibration = Lexiles, 90% comprehension
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29. 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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30. Communicating with Parents
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31. 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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32. 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.
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33. Matching Readers and Text
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37. Life Demands for Literacy
Continuing Education
Workplace
Citizenship
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38. Adult text demands 1100L to 1400L
NOTES:
SO THAT’S WHY WE CARE!
CHILDREN START OUT AT BELOW 0 ON THE LEXILE SCALE AND WE WANT THEM AT 1200L OR HIGHER BY HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATION
DR. GARY WILLIAMSON DID A RECENT STUDY IN WHICH HE ASKED TWO DISALARMINGLY SIMPLE QUESTIONS: 1) WHAT IS THE TEXT DEMANS OF THE POST-SECONDARY ADULT WORLD, AND 2) HOW WELL-PREPARED ARE HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATES FOR THESE DEMANDS?
HIS CONCLUSIONS: 1) THERE IS A GAP, AND 2) A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATES ARE NOT PREPARED TO MEET THESE DEMANDS
IN CONCLUSION, NOTICE HOW EASILY WE MOVE FROM READER TO TEXT AND BACK AGAIN – WE DO THIS BECAUSE OF THE CUTTING-EDGE SHOE STORE TECHNOLOGY – WE CAN MATCH READERS AND TEXT
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39. The Questia 100 Frequency Lexile measure NOTES:35 30 25 20
Frequency 15
NOTES:
ECONOMISTS ESTIMATE THIS YEAR’S HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE WILL HAVE 7 DIFFERENT JOBS BEFORE RETIREMENT – EACH REQUIRING RETRAINING
SO, IT IS NOT JUST COLLEGE
THE QUESTIA 100 INTERQUARTILE RANGE IS ____ TO _____. 10 5
< 1000L
1100L
1200L
1300L
1400L
1500L
> 1500L
Lexile measure
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Data: Lexile measures provided by Questia (2004)

40. Last Grade Completed • Last Grade Completed 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 109 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
2+3+4
HS+
GED
Vocational
College<2
Assoc
+>2 BA
Postgrad •
Last Grade
Completed
Reader measure (in Lexiles)
Data: National Adult Literacy Study (1992)
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41. Current Job • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 900 1100 1300 1500 scientist
accountant • 14
teacher • 13
executive 12 •
nurse 11 •
supervisor 10 •
sales 9 • 8
secretary • 7
foreman
Job Level 6 •
clerk 5 •
craftsman 4 •
construction 3 •
service 2 1 •
labor
700
900
1100
1300
1500
Reader measure (in Lexiles)
Data: National Adult Literacy Study (1992)
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42. Current Salary • 5 4 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 Log Income
5.2 5
4.8
4.6
4.4
4.2 4
3.8 •
$5,000-$9,999
$10,000-$14,999
$15,000-$19,999
$20,000-$29,999
$30,000-$39,999
$40,000-$49,999
$50,000-$74,999
$75,000 +
700
1300
Reader measure (in Lexiles)
Data: National Adult Literacy Study (1992)
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43. Lexiles and Lifelong Reading
Aetna Health Care Discount Form (1360L)
Medical Insurance Benefit Pkg (1280L)
Application for Student Loan (1270L)
Federal Tax Form W-4 (1260L)
Installing Your Child Safety Seat (1170L)
Microsoft Windows User Manual (1150L)
G.M. Protection Plan (1150L)
CD-DVD Player Instructions (1080L)
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44. The Quantile Framework for Mathematics
Developmental scale that locates an individual’s ability to think mathematically in a taxonomy of mathematical skills, concepts and applications.
Tool that links skill development and concept acquisition in mathematics to student achievement with a common scale—Quantile
Characterizes the problem solver with a measure and the skill/concept with a measure under a common scale
Allows educators to:
link skills and concepts together across strands to see the “big picture” in the development of curriculum
determine the readiness of students to be successful
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45. Three Components of The Quantile Framework
Titles Database
Linking
Technology
Quantile Map
Test of
Mathematical
Achievement
Instruction
Core Reading Program
Open Court Reading (SRA)
Literature Anthology
Classroom Literacy
Trade Books and Teacher-Designed
Classroom Magazine
- Weekly Reader
Computer Program
- Scholastic Reading Counts!
- CCC, Pearson
At-Risk Program
- Sprint Plus and Focus
Reading List (District and State)
Media Center
Leveled Program
- Reading Recovery and Shoebox
Power Vocabulary Program
Book Fairs and Books Clubs
Assessment
State Test
No Child Left Behind Act, 2001
End-of-Grade (3-8)
Other Standardized/Interim Tests
TerraNova, SAT-9, MAT-8, NWEA, SRI, PASeries
Title 1 Diagnostic Information
- SDRT, Gates-MacGinitie
Reading Inventory
- Miscue Reading Analysis
- DRA, QRI-3
Computer Lab Data
- Scholastic Reading Inventory
Grades From Cumulative Folder
Teacher Judgment
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46. Picturing Mathematics with the Quantile Map
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47. QTaxons What is a QTaxon? Where did list of QTaxons come from? Strands
Relationship to NCTM
Content Strands
Process Strands
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48. Quantile Map Putting QTaxons on the Quantile Map
Identify items that meet psychometric criteria
Identify items that are representative of the QTaxon and match what is typically taught during the first lesson
Relationship with supporting QTaxons
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49. Quantile Website QTaxon Database State Curricular Frameworks
Knowledge Cluster
Sample/exemplar items
Related terms and Concepts
State Curricular Frameworks
Mississippi
Texas
North Carolina
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50. How to contact us — 1-888-LEXILES (1-888-539-4537) www.lexile.com
Otis Fulton
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