AIMS Web now has Lexile Scoring for RCBM and MAZE Benchmark

Description

AIMSweb is excited to announce the addition of Lexile® measures for select R-CBM and Maze benchmark reports

AIMSweb now includes Lexile® measures on select R-CBM and Maze benchmark reports. These enhanced AIMSweb benchmark reports for grades 1-8 provide the option to report a Lexile measure for each student's R-CBM or Maze score, allowing a teacher to:

• effectively target instruction and monitor reading growth
• find instructional resources that match each student's unique reading ability
• directly link to the free "Find a Book" search tool to select fiction and nonfiction titles that match each student's reading ability and interests

Lexile Measures

Lexile measures are the most widely used reading metrics. Developed by MetaMetrics®, Lexile measures are unique in that they evaluate both reading ability and text complexity on the same developmental scale. They are powerful tools for linking assessment with instruction by taking the guesswork out of selecting materials that can help improve student reading ability, and monitoring their progress toward state and national standards. Lexile measures are represented as a number with an "L" after it - for example, 880L - and range from below 200L to above 1700L.
Linking AIMSweb assessment results with Lexile measures provides a mechanism for targeting each student's reading ability with text on a common scale. Lexile measures serve as an anchor to which texts and assessments can be connected, allowing parents, teachers, and administrators to speak the same language. Parents often ask questions like the following:

• How can I help my child become a better reader?
• How do I challenge my child to read?

Questions like these can be challenging for parents and educators. With Lexile measures, the same metric is applied to the books the children read, the tests they take, and the results that are reported. The linkage of R-CBM and MAZE with Lexile measures will help educators and parents answer these questions and use the AIMSweb results to improve instruction and further develop each student's level of reading.

Sample Classroom Report with the addition of Lexile Measures:

      
Each student's Lexile measure is reported as a hyperlink that takes a teacher directly to MetaMetric's free "Find a Book" search tool to select books that match the student's reading ability and interests.

All information obtained from this link: http://www.aimsweb.com/lexiles