We were very impressed by the concept of Lexiles because of its method of testing and also the Lexiling of titles. We felt a real need to diagnose the student's ability to read and to assign reading levels. Through the Lexile Framework, instruction and assessment are finally brought together - not only in school but also at home and at work. The results of these tests, be they percentiles or whatever, couldn't be used by parents. With the Lexile Framework, the student knows what materials he or she can read based on the Lexile score, where that score ranks on our scale of educational development, and what books he or she can read in order to improve and move up the scale.
Schools now have a tool for parental involvement.
Schools aren't alone in this endeavor. Scholastic, Inc. is MetaMetrics' largest publishing partner, having contracted for the measurement of more than 4,000 titles. MetaMetrics is working with the state of California to lexile its recommended reading list. Harcourt-Brace Educational Measurement has contracted with MetaMetrics for the right to report the results of two of its standardized tests in Lexile measures, because Lexile units have more general meaning than the test scores themselves. Go to Institute for Objective Measurement Home Page.