Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board: Text Measurement and Analysis
The reading demand of entry level community college, four-year university, and community/technical colleges is evaluated using Lexile text measures. The text measures are viewed in conjunction with Lexile reader measures from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) English/Language Arts Exit Level.
This brief summarizes the results of a text measurement study conducted for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) in August 2007 pursuant to Customer Order Number 781-7-00562. The texts included in the study represented materials used in community colleges and four-year institutions. The report has been augmented in August 2008 with the addition of materials used in community/technical colleges (Customer Order Number 781-8-00397). Selected texts used in the Texas higher education system have been analyzed for their readability. The resulting text readability measures are summarized and described below. The text measures are also viewed in conjunction with standards adopted for the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), English/Language Arts (ELA), Exit Level.