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2/7/24, 11:04 AM Alef Education collaborates with MetaMetrics® to launch Arabic Reading Scale in MENA region – The Gulf Time Newspaper
Alef Education collaborates with MetaMetrics® to

launch Arabic Reading Scale in MENA region

ABU DHABI/ WAM

Alef Education, a UAE-based global leader in education technology, announced a strategic collaboration

with MetaMetrics®, the US-based developer of the Lexile® Framework for Reading, to launch an Arabic
reading scale to improve the literacy skills of approximately 100 million K-12 Arabic speakers across the

Middle East and North Africa.
This collaboration aims to provide native Arabic speakers with a powerful tool to improve their literacy in
Arabic, promoting a more effective and personalised approach to improving literacy in the region.

By leveraging the expertise of Alef Education and the MetaMetrics® Lexile® Framework for Reading, the
initiative aims to provide students across the MENA region with the foundational skills they need for

academic success and lifelong learning.
Benefits of an Arabic reading scale include the ability for governments to identify and measure students’
reading levels and progress over time, regardless of the reading materials used, by comparing geographic

regions, school districts, and individual schools using the same scale.
In addition, publishers, EdTech companies, and authors of Arabic language content will be able to link their

reading materials and assessments to the unified scale to meet learners’ needs for reading materials. It will
be easier for teachers to measure their students’ levels and create data-driven plans for their individual
development. At the same time, parents will understand their children’s reading levels so that they can

further develop and improve their reading skills.
Recent data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) shows that six Arab countries

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