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Norm-Referenced and Interim/Benchmark Assessments
Norm-referenced assessments that report Lexile® measures.
CTB/McGraw-Hill: TerraNova (CAT/6 and CTBS/5) and Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE)
- TerraNova (CAT/6 and CTBS/5) is a standardized achievement test used in the United States that compares students' scores to scores from a "norm group." The norm group for TerraNova is a national sample of students representing all gender, racial, economic, and geographic groups.
- Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE) is the premier basic skills test for adult learners. TABE is closely aligned with both national standards and the latest GED Test, including a focus on reading and literature. TABE provides comprehensive, reliable information to ensure that adult students will be successful in today's society. The tests support the same philosophies found in the best adult education programs, featuring test items that focus on adult life skills, are correlated to predict success on the GED Test, and demonstrate progress toward literacy, education and job-related goals. Click here for more information on TABE and Lexile measures.
Pearson: Stanford 9 , Stanford 10 , MAT 8 , and Aprenda 3
- The Stanford 9 is a Norm Referenced Test (NRT) which compares each student's performance on the test to the performance of a representative sample of public school students of the same age and grade. The Stanford 9 tells how your students compare to a national sample taking the test.
- The Stanford 10 is the latest version in the Stanford Achievement Test Series. The test is administered untimed. Areas of assessment include reading, mathematics, language, spelling, listening, science, and social studies.
- The MAT 8 is an open-ended assessment. Originally normed with the Stanford Achievement Test Series, Ninth Edition, the MAT 8 questions are also normed with the Metropolitan Achievement Tests, Eighth Edition, in order to offer performance-based assessment to all of its customers.
- Aprenda 3 is a Spanish-language test of academic standards. It is a norm-referenced test in Spanish that has multiple choice questions and is used to measure achievement in Reading and Math for students in bilingual classes in grades K - 12.
ERB: Comprehensive Testing Program, 4th Edition (CTP 4) is a rigorously designed series of assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics developed to help educators collect critical educational data that answers the questions of administrators, teachers, and parents about achievement. CTP 4 is not one test, but a set consisting of a series of multiple-choice and open-ended question tests administered to groups of students over the course of several days, either in the spring or the fall. CTP 4 has 10 levels; a different level is used with each grade from 1 through 11.
Riverside Publishing: The Iowa Tests (ITBS and ITED ) and Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Fourth Edition 
- ITBS : The ITBS consists of 13 different tests that are administered to students in grades 3-8. The tests include: vocabulary, reading comprehension, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, language usage and expression, mathematics concepts and estimation, social studies, maps and diagrams, science, and reference materials.
- ITED: The ITED consists of 7 different tests that are administered to students in grades 9-12. These tests include science, social studies, vocabulary, literary materials, expression, sources of information, and quantitative thinking.
- The Gates MacGinitie Test (GMRT) assesses each students reading level at both the beginning and the end of the school year. Similar to the Star Reading Test, a grade equivalency score is determined on site. The main use of the Gates MacGinitie is to determine reading growth of each student after one year of instruction.
Interim/Benchmark Assessments that report Lexile measures.
American Education Corporation: A+ LearningLink assessment measures a student's existing knowledge, comprehension and mastery of basic reading skills in grades 1-8. Because the assessment is calibrated with the Lexile Framework, and aligned with state standards and objectives, educators can use students' scores to connect them with appropriate reading materials and forecast how they will perform on Lexile-aligned tests. Teachers who use the A+nyWhere Learning System can automatically prescribe interventions from A+ LearningLink and track progress throughout the year. More than 75 A+nyWhere Learning System courseware titles have Lexile measures.
Dynamic Measurement Group: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) is a standardized set of passages and administration procedures designed to identify children who may need additional instructional support, and monitor progress toward instructional goals. DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) assess skills that are consistent with the essential early literacy domains discussed in both the National Reading Panel (2000) and National Research Council (1998) reports in the areas of phonemic awareness, alphabetic understanding, accuracy and fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension. Conversion tables for linking DIBELS ORF scores with Lexile measures are available at: www.dibels.org/papers/DIBELSLexilesLinkingReport.pdf .
Florida Center for Reading Research: Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading , developed by the Florida Center for Reading Research and Just Read, Florida!, provide teachers with screening, progress monitoring and diagnostic information for guiding classroom instruction in grades PreK-12. The computer-adaptive assessments measure students' reading comprehension similarly to how comprehension is measured by the year-end Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). Students receive a developmental scale score between 200 and 900 for reading, content scores, within-grade standard scores, percentiles and Lexile measures.
Measured Progress: Progress Toward Standards (PTS3) is a rigorous online benchmark assessment designed to test reading mastery of students in grades 3-8 and high school. Delivered on a browser-based platform, PTS3 includes three reading forms per grade and is aligned to standards in more than 20 states. Districts and schools can use PTS3 to measure where their students are on the learning continuum at a given time and to collect data from reports to tailor instruction at the individual, class, school and district levels. Students who take the PTS3 receive a Lexile measure in addition to their standard reading score. Lexile measures are available at no extra cost to current and new users.
NWEA: Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) are computer-adaptive tests that measure student reading achievement and growth using both NWEA's RIT (Rasch UnIT) scale scores and Lexile measures. Lexile measures help educators to accelerate reading growth by connecting each student with appropriate books and curriculum materials.
Pearson: Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, Fourth Edition (SDRT 4) and Stanford Learning First are group-administered, norm-referenced multiple-choice tests that assess vocabulary, comprehension and scanning skills.
- SDRT 4 is administered mid-year to students in grades 4-10. It provides information on student progress, targets individual students who are in need of additional reading support, and provides data on the effectiveness of support and intervention programs. SDRT 4 provides a Lexile Student Reading Pathfinder Report for grades 2-12 with titles matched to each student's reading level.
- Based on a continuous improvement model, Stanford Learning First enables classroom teachers to use Lexile measures to monitor student achievement in grades 3-8 throughout the school year and ensure that they are on track to meet a state's academic standards.
Scantron: Performance Series is a Web-based, standards-aligned testing system used for student placement, progress reports and performance prediction. The system offers variable levels of difficulty according to student performance. Administrators and educators can use the diagnostic data to monitor both school- and student-level progress from year to year. Lexile measures are available as an optional addition to the student and class reports.
Scholastic: Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) is a research-based, computer-adaptive assessment for students in grades K-12. Students read a passage taken from an authentic text and then choose the option that best fills the blank in the last statement. To complete the statement, the student must respond on a literal level (recall a fact) or inferential level (determine the main idea of the passage, draw an inference from the material presented, or make a connection between sentences in the passage). SRI does not correct students' errors; however, it does provide them with immediate feedback in the form of a Lexile measure. SRI provides a suggested reading list that is prescriptively based on the Lexile Framework.