Location: Overview: Diagnostic Evaluations

Overview: Diagnostic Evaluations

The MyLab offers diagnostic exercises for evaluating your reading skills and reading level. Diagnostic pre-tests give the MyLab the information it needs to customize the Study Plan and select topics that will help you strengthen your reading skills and level. The diagnostic post-tests, which you take at the end of a course, provide a measure of how well you have done and progressed.

Reading skill diagnostic tests assess your mastery of critical reading skills such as outlining, summarizing, and determining the main idea. These skills help you process information as you read.
Reading level or Lexile diagnostic pre-tests use the Lexile Framework® to accurately assess your reading level and help you raise your level.
When you have completed the Reading Level diagnostics, you receive a result (also called a Lexile Locator). This result shows your initial level, which can range from 400 to 1490. Using your reading level as its guideline, the MyLab assigns exercises to help you improve your reading ability and raise your reading level.
The MyReadingLab website (http://www.myreadinglab.com/lexile.html) has information on the Lexile Framework reading and achievement measurements. There is also a link to the Lexile website (http://www.lexile.com), which has full details on the methods used for matching reader ability and text difficulty.