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Wilkins, Chuck; Rolfhus, Eric; Hartman, Jenifer; Brasiel, Sarah; Brite, Jessica; Howland, Noelle – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest (NJ1), 2012
Many students graduate from high school unprepared for the rigorous reading required in entry-level college and career work. This brief builds on a recent report (Wilkins et al. 2010) that used the Lexile measure (a method for measuring the reading difficulty of prose text and the reading capability of individuals) to estimate the proportion of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Public Education, College English
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Wilkins, Chuck; Hartman, Jenifer; Howland, Noelle; Sharma, Nitin – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest (NJ1), 2010
This study develops and documents a new methodology that uses the Lexile Framework[R] for Reading to determine the proportion of grade 11 Texas public school students whose scores on the exit-level Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills for English language arts and reading (TAKS-ELAR) or the TAKS-ELAR Accommodated indicate the ability to read…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Academic Achievement, Reading Ability, Grade 11
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Wilkins, Chuck; Hartman, Jenifer; Howland, Noelle; Sharma, Nitin – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest (NJ1), 2010
This study develops and documents a new methodology that uses the Lexile Framework[R] for Reading to determine the proportion of grade 11 Texas public school students whose scores on the exit-level Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills for English language arts and reading (TAKS-ELAR) or the TAKS-ELAR Accommodated indicate the ability to read…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Academic Achievement, Reading Ability, Grade 11