The Lexile Career Database: Discover the Reading Demands of Prospective Occupations

Webinar October 26, 2015
The Lexile Career Database is now available and can be integrated into your product or service. The Lexile Career Database offers Lexile® measures for over 185 careers from the 16 career clusters, as well as important descriptive information for each career. Attend our informational webinar to learn about:
-Specific Careers and Descriptive Information Included in the Database
-The Research and Analysis Behind the Development of the Database
-The Database as an Interpretative Framework for Reading Ability and Growth
-How Education Companies Use the Database
-Future Database Enhancements
-Available Licensing Options

Presenters: Gary Williamson, Ph.D., Eleanor Sanford-Moore, Ph.D., and Trilby Berger

Transcript

1. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. The Lexile Career Database Discover the Reading Demands of Prospective Occupations October 26, 2015 Presenters: Gary Williamson, Ph.D. Eleanor Sanford-Moore, Ph.D. Trilby Berger
2. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Logistics • If you experience any technical difficulties please refer to your confirmation email or call 919.886.0019 • Submit your questions to the Q&A Moderator, which can be selected from the drop-down menu in the Q&A panel. • When submitting your question, please include your full name and organization. 2
3. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction to the Lexile Career Database • The Research and Analysis Behind the Development of the Database • The Database as an Interpretative Framework for Reading Ability and Growth • The Lexile Growth Planner • Next Steps 3
4. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Increased Focus on Career Readiness • A recent ECS report examined the policy efforts to improve alignment between high school and postsecondary career/technical education (CTE) programs and workforce needs. The report found that: – States have taken a statewide approach, creating or assigning an existing state-level entity to develop or revise career pathways. – States are encouraging or requiring the creation of regional partnerships of K-12, postsecondary and business/ industry partners to better align career pathways with workforce needs. – California has created one or more competitive grant programs to support local alignment initiative. Other states have made an appropriation to one or more statewide entities to finance such efforts. Zinth, J. (2015). Aligning K-12 and postsecondary career pathways with workforce needs. Education Commission of the States: Denver, Co. 4
5. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Increased Focus on Career Readiness • According to a recent report by the National Governors Association, using data to track recent graduates in the workforce helps ensure postsecondary education institutions are preparing graduates for successful careers. To evaluate postsecondary education and training programs, the report suggest governors should consider: – How their state is using data to improve educational system outcomes to benefit recent graduates, workers and employers – How the state is using education and workforce data to improve postsecondary programs and hold institutions and other state entities accountable; and – Where recent graduates have successfully found employment. Groves, G., Palmer, I., Jenkins, S., & Parsons, K. (2015). Tracking Graduates into the Workforce: Connecting Education and Labor Market Data. National Governors Association: Washington, DC. 5
6. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Lexile Career Database Overview • Identifying the reading ability necessary for career preparedness or career accessibility • Career success is not a criterion outcome for the study • Can look at reading demands of specific careers and 16 career clusters • Research – Mathematical demand of careers 6
7. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Lexile Career Database Overview • O*NET Bright Outlook Occupations as of December 2012 (n=354) • Six linear systematic samples (n = 59 each) • Goal: acquire 10 text samples and 10 mathematics lessons per career • Analyze text and math distributions by: career, USED career cluster, all BO occupations 7
8. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Lexile Career Database Overview • Careers completed as of Fall 2015: n = 275 – O*NET Bright Outlook Occupations Phases 1-4 (N = 236) – Additional careers at partner request (N = 39) • Careers to be Added – Phases 5-6 Bright Outlook Careers – Job Corps 8
9. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Lexile Career Database Overview • The Lexile Career Database offers Lexile measures for over 250 careers as well as important descriptive information for each career. • Featured careers have been identified as Bright Outlook Occupations by O*Net. The Bright Outlook Occupations span 16 career clusters identified by the U.S. Department of Education. 9
10. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Career Clusters 1. Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources 2. Architecture and Construction 3. Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications 4. Business, Management and Administration 5. Education and Training 6. Finance 7. Government and Public Administration 8. Health Science 9. Hospitality and Tourism 10. Human Services 11. Information Technology 12. Law Public Safety, Corrections and Security 13. Manufacturing 14. Marketing, Sales and Service 15. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics 16. Transportation, Distribution and Logistics 10
11. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Research Results • Phase 1 Summary (n = 59 careers) • Bright Outlook Occupations – Text complexity distributions by career – Median career text complexity by years of required education – Text complexity distributions for USED career clusters – Source: Enriching the Concept of Career Preparedness by Examining Text Complexity Associated with Bright Outlook Occupations 11
12. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 Figure 1. Text Complexity for O*NET Bright Outlook Occupations Medians and Inter-Quartile Ranges for Phase 1 Linear Systematic Sample (n = 59 careers) Source: Williamson, G. L., & Baker, R. F. (2013). Enriching the concept of career preparedness by examining text complexity associated with Bright Outlook Occupations. (Research Brief). Durham, NC: MetaMetrics.
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14. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. 14 Figure 3. Text Complexity for O*NET Bright Outlook Occupations (December 2012) by USED Career Cluster Phase 1 Linear Systematic Sample (n = 59 careers) Source: Williamson, G. L., & Baker, R. F. (2013). Enriching the concept of career preparedness by examining text complexity associated with Bright Outlook Occupations. (Research Brief). Durham, NC: MetaMetrics.
15. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Applications • Individual Student Reporting • Progress Chart • Long-term Growth versus Requirements – Reading – Mathematics • Forecasted Reading Comprehension • Growth Planner 15
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20. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Benefits of the Lexile Career Database • Focuses on reading demand associated with career readiness • Uses a common scale for readiness across all careers • Only metric available to compare and describe reading demands of careers • Provides valuable information in goal setting • Provides a new resource to address the emerging emphasis on career readiness 20
21. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Lexile Growth Planner • Tracks Lexile measures across multiple assessments • Provides Growth Analytics & Forecasts Future Performance • Offers several backdrops to compare past and future growth patterns including: – College & Career Readiness Text Complexity Demands – Career Reading Demands – Normative Student Growth Trends 21
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23. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Benefits of the Lexile Growth Planner • Provides several advantages for measuring growth, including: – using common scale, – capitalizes on longitudinal data, – provides conjoint interpretations of student performance (i.e., person ability versus text complexity); • Offers multiple interpretive contexts for college and career readiness including: - postsecondary text complexity - career text complexity -aligned K-12 reading/English language arts standards -alignment of state achievement levels with CCR standards • Provides a long-term view of growth that includes retrospective, current and future perspectives of student performance and offers comparative background for normative student growth trends. 23
24. This presentation constitutes the confidential information of MetaMetrics, Inc. Copyright © 2015 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Next steps • License The Lexile Career Database and Growth Planner for an annual fee, together or separately • Lexile Career Database delivered in Excel file and includes, for each career: career name, SOC code, career cluster, number of years of education and typical reading demands in the Lexile metric • Growth Planner provided via web service (XML-RPC API) • Our team is happy to advise on how you can integrate these tools into your products and services! • Contact: Trilby Berger, tberger@lexile.com, 919.547.3427 24
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