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In this episode of the Digital Learning Today Podcast, Jeff welcomes Sue Ann Towle, Vice President, Product Management, MetaMetrics on the podcast LIVE from ISTE 2024 to discuss the new Lexile & Quantile Hub.
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In This Episode …
- MetaMetrics, an innovative leader in educational measurement, assessment, and AI announced at ISTE, the launch of the redesigned Lexile® & Quantile® Hub, set to debut in September.
- This major update underscores MetaMetrics’ commitment to accessibility, enhanced user experience, and increased support.
- First launched in 2018, the Hub is an online collection of innovative tools and resources that leverage the Lexile® Framework for Reading and the Quantile® Framework for Mathematics. Users visited the Hub nearly 3 million times in 2023 to access learning materials and guidance that bridge the gap between assessment scores and instructional content used in the classroom, saving teachers time and supporting academic growth.
- The new Lexile & Quantile Hub was rebuilt from the ground up to prioritize accessibility, complying with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Accessibility requirements like WCAG 2.1 AA are evolving to provide better support and research shows only 4% of companies have a website that meets these requirements.
- Social media integration further connects the user community, allowing educators and parents to share insights and resources effortlessly. Tools, like the popular Lexile® Find a Book, are now easier to access and faster to navigate for educators and parents who want to locate appropriately challenging reading materials on topics of interest for their students.
- A new Resource Center centralizes materials supporting instruction to ensure that educators and parents can efficiently find and utilize the information they need.
- For example, resources like maps that align student measures and content measures, grade level charts, and decodable practice passages are reorganized into a central location making them easy to locate. This saves time for teachers who are supporting differentiated instruction in their classrooms.
- The redesign also enhances the visibility of features at all subscription levels from the free visitor account through premium partner access. Users can easily create accounts and access resources tailored to their membership tier.
- Educators in states that have a contractual partnership with MetaMetrics enjoy free access to the highest tier of Hub membership which provides the most access to usage of tools and features.
About MetaMetrics
MetaMetrics Brings Meaning to Measurement
MetaMetrics is guided by a powerful north star—to support student growth through actionable learning measurement. Over the last 35+ years, MetaMetrics’ staff of educators, psychometricians and policy leaders have developed learning frameworks that now support over 35 million students in the US. More than half of the K-12 students in the US receive Lexile and Quantile measures and over a hundred million pieces of content have corresponding measures.
MetaMetrics was founded in 1984 by Dr. A. Jackson Stenner (retired) and Dr. Malbert Smith with the singular goal of making measurement meaningful by matching students to learning resources using a scientific, universal scale. Today, Lexile and Quantile measures are available in all 50 states, either through formal partnership agreements with 21 state departments of education or at the local level through partnerships with edtech companies who deliver services to schools and districts. Levering the most advanced AI technology and learning theory, MetaMetrics continues to innovate solutions for a wide range of applications including early reading, career readiness and tutoring. For more information, visit
MetaMetricsInc.com.
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About our Guest: Sue Ann Towle, Vice President, Product Management, MetaMetrics
An experienced K-12 education product and marketing professional, Sue Ann leads the activities for both the product and project management teams with responsibility for MetaMetrics’ product portfolio, including the Growth Planner, the Lexile Framework for Reading’s Find a Book and Analyzer tools, as well as the Quantile Framework for Mathematics resource library.
Prior to joining MetaMetrics, Sue Ann was director of channel management at Pearson, responsible for the development, training and implementation of seven K-12 digital assessments. During her nearly 15 years at Pearson, Sue Ann also led the successful launches of the award-winning digital learning tools, WriteToLearn™ and the Pearson Test of English Language Learning (TELL™).
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