Company Profile
MetaMetrics Inc.
Company Overview
MetaMetrics® is focused on improving education for students of all ages. The organization develops scientific measures of academic achievement and complementary technologies that link assessment results with instruction. For more than twenty years, MetaMetrics’ work has been increasingly recognized worldwide for its distinct value in differentiating instruction and personalizing learning. Its products and services for reading, mathematics and writing provide valuable insights about academic ability and the potential for growth, enabling students to achieve their goals at every stage of development.
In both 2007 and 2008, MetaMetrics was given “The Best Place to Work” award by the Triangle Business Journal.
The Lexile® Framework for Reading (Lexile.com) evaluates reading ability and text complexity on the same developmental scale. Unlike other measurement systems, the Lexile Framework determines reading ability based on actual assessments, rather than generalized age or grade levels. Recognized as the standard for matching readers with texts, tens of millions of students worldwide receive a Lexile measure that helps them find targeted readings from the more than 100 million articles, books and websites that have been measured. Lexile measures connect learners of all ages with resources at the right level of challenge and monitor their progress toward state and national proficiency standards.
The Quantile® Framework for Mathematics (Quantiles.com) is a unique measurement system that uses a common scale and metric to assess a student’s mathematical achievement level and the difficulty of specific skills and concepts. The Quantile Framework describes a student’s ability to solve mathematical problems and the demand of the skills and concepts typically taught in kindergarten mathematics through Algebra II, Geometry, Trigonometry and Pre-calculus. Quantile measures take the guesswork out of instruction by describing which mathematical skills and concepts the student has learned and is ready to learn. They improve mathematics teaching and learning by targeting instruction and monitoring student growth toward proficiency standards and the mathematical demands of college and careers.
The Lexile® Framework for Writing is an innovative tool for differentiating writing instruction and monitoring growth in writing ability. It expresses student writing ability on the same Lexile scale as reading ability, providing an easy-to-understand language for expressing student writing growth and reinforcing the importance of reading in the development of writing skills. A Lexile writer measure is an estimate of a student’s ability to express language in writing based on factors related to semantic complexity (the level of the words used) and syntactic sophistication (how the words are combined into sentences). Like Lexile reader measures, Lexile writer measures were designed to monitor writing progress within and across school years.
In addition to licensing Lexile and Quantile measures to state departments of education, testing and instructional companies, and publishers, MetaMetrics professional development, resource measurement and customized consulting services. For more information and to access free resources, visit www.MetaMetricsInc.com.