Aligning the Journey with a Destination
Lexile reader and text measures are utilized to describe the typical reading ability of students as they move from elementary to high school and to evaluate the gap between student ability and the text demands of postsecondary reading endeavors.
A great deal has been written in the last few decades about the condition of public education in the United States. Many authors have argued that students are unprepared after high school for the variety of experiences they seek in life, not only those experiences related to higher education but also those related to the military, the workplace and the day-today responsibilities of citizenship.
…Two threads of recent research provide one possible way of developing and aligning (or at least informing the discussion about) student achievement standards for K-16...
Citation
Williamson, G. L. (2006). Aligning the Journey With a Destination. MetaMetrics, Inc.