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Miqyas Al Dhad Completes Arab World’s Largest Field Survey

Ahead of Launching First Comprehensive Scientific

Framework to Assess Arabic Literacy

June 18, 2025

In a significant milestone towards enhancing Arabic reading proficiency among native students, Arabic Scale – known
as ‘Miqyas Al Dhad’ has successfully concluded the final phase of its comprehensive field survey. This achievement
paves the way for the official launch of the Arabic reading scale in the third quarter of this year, following an intensive
research effort grounded in advanced scientific methodologies. The field survey was carried out in collaboration with
Ministries of Education and school chains across the Arab world and involved the active participation of hundreds of
educators and language experts.

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The field survey encompassed over 110,000 students from 204 schools across 70 rural and urban areas in nine Arab
countries, namely the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Sultanate of
Oman, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Kingdom of Morocco, the State of Libya, the Lebanese Republic, and the
Republic of Iraq, reflecting the initiative’s scope and scale. The field survey was administered digitally using tablets,
desktops, and computer labs. Rigorous proctoring was followed to ensure security of survey administration.

In developing the field survey items, several reading frameworks and standards were reviewed and the socio-cognitive
framework for reading (Khalifa & Weir, 2009) was utilized. It should be noted that the sociocognitive framework for
reading has been used by reputable examination boards such as Cambridge. The key components of the sociocognitive
framework for reading comprehension are linguistic knowledge, cognitive processing, background knowledge, and
metacognitive strategies. In building the reading items for the survey, a rigorous methodology was followed in terms of
recruiting, inducting, training, monitoring and evaluating item writers to ensure the highest standards of item quality.

The Arabic Scale is developed using triangulation scientific research methodology that integrates both quantitative and
qualitative analyses of multiple data sources. In addition to data gathered from the field survey on students’ reading
proficiency, the second data source involved the creation of a large Arabic corpus featuring over 70 million structures
and words, derived from more than 8,000 carefully curated Arabic texts from various subject areas, fields and topics
reflecting the language’s richness, culture, heritage and diversity.

The third data source was via conducting a pairwise comparative study with participation from over 450 Arabic
language experts and educators from 18 Arab countries. In this study, participants were given two passages and had to
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