Alef Education collaborates with MetaMetrics® to launch Arabic Reading Scale in MENA region

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 ...

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