Number of Books with Lexile Measures Doubles with Addition of Questia Digital Library
The number of books with Lexile® measures will double as the result of a three-year agreement announced today by The Lexile Framework® for Reading and Questia Media Inc. As the most widely adopted reading measure in use today, Lexiles provide a common scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty, allowing easy monitoring of student progress and ensuring reading comprehension. With the fall 2004 addition of the more than 50,000 books in Questia’s digital library, there will now be Lexile measures for 100,000 books and more than 70 million articles.
DURHAM, NC & HOUSTON, TX (PRWEB) July 15, 2004
The number of books with Lexile® measures will double as the result of a three-year agreement announced today by The Lexile Framework® for Reading and Questia Media Inc. As the most widely adopted reading measure in use today, Lexiles provide a common scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty, allowing easy monitoring of student progress and ensuring reading comprehension. With the fall 2004 addition of the more than 50,000 books in Questia’s digital library, there will now be Lexile measures for 100,000 books and more than 70 million articles.
“Questia is committed to providing secondary and post-secondary students with access to books and resources as well as the tools to use them effectively,” said Cheryl Fleming, vice president – education, Questia Media Inc. “By adding Lexile measures to all the books in our digital library, we are offering students and teachers the premier method for identifying the materials that best meet reading abilities. We strive to equip teachers with the tools that enable them to gauge student progress, improve reading comprehension, and result in more effective student learning.”
Questia, with subscribers in 187 countries, is the worldÂ’s largest online library and research service. QuestiaÂ’s subscription-based online service offers each user a personal copy of a college-level library of more than 50,000 complete books, more than 390,000 journal and newspaper articles and a research toolkit that enables them to interact with the books and articles like they would in the physical world, but more efficiently and conveniently.
Demonstrating its commitment to helping educators use Lexiles to improve student reading ability, Questia was a sponsor of the first Lexile National Reading Conference in Dallas in June. Fleming was a presenter at the conference, attended by more than 400 educators from around the country.
“This has been an amazing year for growth and acceptance of Lexile measures. Through agreements with leaders in education testing and assessment, publishing, and online libraries like Questia, we are continuing to see momentum for Lexiles as the most widely adopted reading measure in use in both K-12 and beyond, ” said Malbert Smith III, Ph. D., president of MetaMetrics® Inc., developer of the Lexile Framework for Reading. “We are particularly proud to collaborate with Questia to ensure that its subscribers can use Lexile measures to match readers to text.”
About Questia
Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc., launched its revolutionary online library in January 2001, with powerful search and writing tools created specifically to help students do better research and write better papers. Questia provides unlimited access to the full content of an extensive collection of books and journal articles, as well as a wide range of tools, including highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and bibliography builder. For millions of students and researchers, the Questia service enables them to efficiently research and compose papers at any time, from virtually every connected corner of the world. Based in Houston, Questia is delivering on the true promise of the Internet by providing access to a wealth of human knowledge.
About The Lexile Framework for Reading
The Lexile Framework for Reading (www. Lexile. com) provides a common scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty, allowing easy monitoring of progress. Lexile measures give teachers and parents the confidence to choose materials that will improve student reading skills across the curriculum and at home. Tens of thousands of books and tens of millions of articles have Lexile measures, and all major standardized tests can report student reading scores in Lexiles. As the most widely adopted reading measure in use today, Lexiles are part of reading and testing programs at district, state and federal levels. The Lexile Framework was developed by MetaMetrics, an independent education company based in Durham, N. C., after 15 years of research funded by the National Institutes of Health.
For more information, press only:
MetaMetrics Inc.
Lisa Wolfe, L. Wolfe Communications, 312-494-0754, lwolfe@lwolfe. com
Questia Media Inc.
Helen Wilson, 713-358-2651, hwilson@questia. com
MetaMetrics, Lexile, the Lexile symbol and Lexile Framework are trademarks or U. S. registered trademarks of MetaMetrics, Inc. The names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. © 2004 MetaMetrics Inc.
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