The MetaMetrics corporation has created a book difficulty measurement device, called the Lexile system. It purports to rate books based on their difficulty level—but readers who study their grading ...

TURNITIN, the plagiarism-catcher turned instructional writing program, is now introducing Lexile scores to their Revision Assistant, a tool which provides computer-generated feedback to students on ...

In journalism, a general rule of thumb is to write articles at an eighth grade reading level. That translates to a score between 985L and 1295L on MetaMetrics’ Lexile scale, which attempts to measure ...

MetaMetrics has updated its Lexile Framework for Reading with three new enhancements designed to help beginning readers find books matched to their skill level more easily. All books that scored 0L or ...

It’s the holiday season, and let’s say you’re shopping for the sixth-grader in your life. Because you are a sensitive and loving being who wants this small person to grow up to be a sensitive and ...

Renaissance Learning is partnering with MetaMetrics to add Lexile measures to its reading platforms, including Accelerated Reader, STAR Early Literacy and Subtext. Beginning in the 2014-2015 school ...

The only correct answer is “d,” since all the others have a “Lexile” score so low that they are deemed most appropriate for fourth, fifth, or sixth graders. This idea might seem ridiculous, but it’s ...

DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- MetaMetrics, an innovative leader in educational measurement, assessment, and AI, announces the launch of the redesigned Lexile® & Quantile® Hub ...

For decades, we’ve had tools to measure the complexity of writing that still survive in some writing software as “Text Analysis.” For example, Flesch’s Reading Ease score and Flesch-Kincaid scores ...