FAIR Score Types

Measure/Score Type / Definition / Range
Lexile (L) Measure(from Reading Comprehension Task) / Represents a student’s reading ability on the lexile scale to predict how well a reader should comprehend a text. / BR-2105L
(Graphic map 200L-1700L)
Lexile Range / Calculated from the Lexile Measure (LM), this score is the range in which a student may successfully construct meaning from a text. / 150
SD= 100L below to 50L +
Reading Comprehension Developmental Ability Score / Score that provides an estimate of the level of a student’s ability and should change as the student’s ability in that task increases or decreases / 200-800
Grades 3-10
Mean=500
SD=100
MAZE Adjusted Score / This score is the average number of Maze items correctly completed within 3 minutes across the two administered passages. They are adjusted for time and relative difficulty of the passages. This score can be used to compare a student’s performance across assessment periods. / Continuum between
0-147

Word AnalysisDevelopmental Ability Score / Score that provides an estimate of the level of a student’s ability and should change as the student’s ability in the task increases or decreases. / 200-800
Grades 3-10
Mean=500
SD=100
Reading Comprehension FCAT Success Probability(FSP) / Score indicates the likelihood that he/she will perform at level 3 or better on FCAT. This score is derived from the students’ current performance on the Reading Comprehension task and also from their previous performance on the FCAT in the previous year if there is a matched FCAT score for the student in the PMRN. / Green; 85% or better /
Yellow: 16-84% /
Red: 15% or less /
Reading Comprehension Percentile Rank / Scores used to rank one student’s performance in relation to a specific group (grade level peers). The comparison group is the students in the State of Florida. / Continuum between 1-99
Reading Comprehension StandardScore / Scores that allow comparison of raw scores by putting them on the same distribution to indicate how far a score is from the average. This score can be used to compare student performance across different tests. / 55-145
Mean=100
SD=15
Reading Comprehension FCAT Reporting Categories / Scores that represent a student’s performance in FCAT Reporting Categories. These scores describe the relative strength and weaknesses for each of the four reporting categories of reading comprehension assessed by the FCAT / High: 80th-99th
Medium:30th-79th
Low:Below the 30th percentile
MAZE Percentile Rank Score / Scores used to rank one student’s performance in relation to a specific group (grade level peers). The norm sample is the students from Florida. / Continuum between 1-99

MAZE Standard Score / Scores that allow comparison of raw scores by putting them on the same distribution to indicate how far a score is from the average. This score can be used to compare student performance across different tests. / 55-145
Mean=100
SD=15
Word Analysis Percentile Rank / Scores used to rank one student’s performance in relation to a specific group (grade level peers). The norm sample is the students from Florida. / Continuum between 1-99

Word Analysis Standard Score / Scores that allow comparison of raw scores by putting them on the same distribution to indicate how far a score is from the average. This score can be used to compare student performance across different tests. / 55-145
Mean=100
SD=15

Statistics and Reliability for the Broad Screen/Progress Monitoring Tool

Grade / Mean / S.D. / Reliability
3rd / 387 / 110 / 0.91
4th / 429 / 115 / 0.91
5th / 462 / 124 / 0.92
6th / 494 / 124 / 0.92
7th / 521 / 136 / 0.92
8th / 552 / 125 / 0.92
9th / 554 / 112 / 0.92
10th / 577 / 109 / 0.92
Average / 497 / 119 / 0.91

Statistics and Reliability for the Word Analysis task

Grade / Mean / S.D. / Reliability
3rd / 477 / 108 / 0.93
4th / 512 / 107 / 0.92
5th / 500 / 98 / 0.92
6th / 516 / 95 / 0.92
7th / 563 / 107 / 0.94
8th / 575 / 119 / 0.95
9th / 556 / 112 / 0.94
10th / 580 / 112 / 0.94
Average / 535 / 107 / 0.93

Lexile 2008 Linking Study with FAIR Broad Screen RCAS

Grade / Mean L
3rd / 550L
4th / 700L
5th / 850L
6th / 930L
7th / 1000L
8th / 1050L
9th / 1100L
10th / 1200L

Adapted from FCRR department of FLDOE