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College Readiness and Reading Proficiency: Using Lexiles to Investigate Reading Gaps in Texas

College Readiness and Reading Proficiency: Using Lexiles to Investigate Reading Gaps in Texas. Commission for a College Ready Texas Houston - June 18, 2007. Presented by:. Eric Rolfhus, Ph.D. Senior Researcher Edvance Research, Inc. . Regional Educational Laboratory - Southwest.

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College Readiness and Reading Proficiency: Using Lexiles to Investigate Reading Gaps in Texas

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  1. College Readiness and Reading Proficiency: Using Lexiles to Investigate Reading Gaps in Texas Commission for a College Ready Texas Houston - June 18, 2007 Presented by: Eric Rolfhus, Ph.D. Senior Researcher Edvance Research, Inc. Regional Educational Laboratory - Southwest

  2. Why Lexiles? • As requested by the Commission as part of ELAR gap analysis: • Identifying gaps between TEKS and • “Reading demands associated with Lexile analysis and measures of text complexity and comprehensibility” • A Lexile is a widely used measure of Reading Comprehension Difficulty • MetaMetrics has conducted research on different populations of texts Edvance Research, Inc.

  3. TAKS performance equated to Lexiles Lexiles available on student reports Lexiles available from most test publishers Lexiles available for many textbook and curriculum materials (from TEA; http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/lexile/index.html) Edvance Research, Inc.

  4. How is a Lexile Calculated? • A regression equation was developed based on thousands of texts. • Think FICO (credit score) formula • (credit risk prediction from an equation) • Two factors included in the Lexile formula • Word Frequency • Length of Sentence Edvance Research, Inc.

  5. Workplace Lexiles (from MetaMetrics, 2007 & Williamson, 2006a) 200 = 1st grade 1123 = 11-12th grade texts 1355 = 1st Year College texts Forklift Operations Manual 890 Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 Tutorial 1080 Fine Homebuilding Magazine 1150 2008 Cadillac Eldorado Brochure 1150 Attendance Policy for Hourly Employees 1210 Federal Form W-4 1260 Free Application for Federal Student Aid 1270 Aetna U.S. Healthcare - Open Choice PPO 1280 U.S. Dept. of Justice (INS) - Employment Eligibility Verification 1340 Edvance Research, Inc.

  6. Newspaper Lexiles (from MetaMetrics, 2007 & Williamson 2006a) Miami Herald 1200 USA Today 1200 Chicago Sun-Times 1210 New York Daily News 1230 San Francisco Examiner 1230 San Jose Mercury 1230 New York Post 1280 Washington Times 1290 Associated Press 1310 Chicago Tribune 1310 Wall Street Journal 1320 Los Angeles Times 1330 Washington Post 1350 UPI 1370 Bloomberg 1380 New York Times 1380 Reuters 1440 200 = 1st grade 1123 = 11-12th grade texts 1355 = 1st Year College texts Edvance Research, Inc.

  7. Comparing Text Difficulty and Person Ability Expected Comprehension Rate Person Ability Text Difficulty 1250 1250 25% 1000 1000 50% 750 750 75% 500 500 90% 250 250 95% Edvance Research, Inc.

  8. What does Comprehension-Rate mean? This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, or whether, as there is fair authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson as she entered the prison-door, we shall not take upon us to determine. - The Scarlet Letter (1400L) Cloze item: The rose-bush serves as a vibrant ______ for this tale. Edvance Research, Inc.

  9. Lexiles Chart – Handout Edvance Research, Inc.

  10. Estimates of Reading Demands by Setting (from Williamson, 2006a) Percentile 5 25 50 75 95 Number of texts used in this estimate Edvance Research, Inc.

  11. Reading Demands in Secondary And Beyond (from Williamson, 2006a) Edvance Research, Inc.

  12. TAKS Performance Standards Overlay on Text Demands (adapted from Williamson, 2006a) Higher Ed: 2200 TAKS 1170 Lexile Standard: 2100 TAKS 1015 Lexile Commended: 2400 TAKS 1490 Lexile 7

  13. TAKS-Lexile Midpoints By Grade (ELA - April 2005 Administration) TAKS ELA Commended (1490 L) TAKS ELA Higher Education Readiness (1170 L) TAKS ELA Standard Performance Level (1015 L) Lexile Grade Edvance Research, Inc. 8

  14. April 2005 TAKS ELA Scaled Scores with Lexile and Performance Standard Overlay (N=230,147) Higher-Ed Readiness+ 71% Standard+ 85% Commended+ 16% 35.5% 1st/2nd Year of College 41% # of students at TAKS score Level Community College Text for Grades 11-12 76% TAKS Scaled Score Edvance Research, Inc. 9

  15. Conclusions • This gap (HS  4-yr College) appears to bebuilt-in to typical high- school reading levels • University-level reading demands fall between TAKS Commended and Higher Education Readiness performance levels • TAKS Commended performance level lines up to about 75th percentile of university reading demands. • Only about 36% of those completing the TAKS in April 2005 are reading at a Lexile level that matches demands of college • (at a 75% comprehension level) Edvance Research, Inc.

  16. Further Research Examine Student Longitudinal Lexiles (from Williamson, 2006b) Actual Data Edvance Research, Inc.

  17. Longitudinal Lexiles (Comparing NC longitudinal to TX cross-sectional) NC, TX NAEP 2005 Results 4th/8th Grade Nearly Identical 1st/2nd Year College Lexile Community College Grade Edvance Research, Inc.

  18. References Willamson, G. L. (2006a). Student Readiness for Postsecondary Endeavors. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA. Willamson, G. L. (2006b). Aligning the Journey with the Destination. Durham, NC: MetaMetrics, Inc. Edvance Research, Inc.

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