It may be helpful to remember that Lexiles and Quantiles were developed primarily to help schools create instructional groupings, and to meet federal criteria for collecting progress monitoring data. They have value in organizing groups, especially for accountability purposes (i.e., was this instructional intervention effective for this group of at-risk students?). The real client is schools, not parents or individual students.
And it's a piece of data, like any other, that is best interpreted through the lens of the whole child.
Last edited by Julie; 06/04/15 10:50 AM.
