Careers

MetaMetrics connects a student’s academic readiness with career exploration, giving education and workforce agencies a data-driven view of the reading and math skills required for high-growth jobs in their state or region and their students’ readiness to meet those needs. This comprehensive perspective bridges the gap between academic assessment data and career readiness without adding more testing time—fostering stronger collaboration between counselors, educators, higher education systems, and workforce development programs.   

By analyzing student measures across broader cohorts, education agencies gain a complete picture of reading and math performance statewide. This insight enables them to target resources to high-need districts, scale proven practices, and fulfill Perkins V reporting mandates alongside WIOA grant accountability standards. Additionally, educators can help learners create an educational path, set meaningful goals, and take ownership of their future.

To interpret reading and math ability within the career landscape, MetaMetrics enables partners to infuse Lexile and Quantile measures into college and career planning tools, complementing traditional career exploration factors and increasing their precision. 

These measure-enriched tools enable educators to answer the question every student asks—”Why do I need to learn Algebra?”—by sparking engagement and aligning instructional pathways in a way that gives learners a sense of self-awareness, determination, and direction. By providing education agencies and workforce development organizations with an evidence-based view of their learners’ projected skills and outcomes, they can assess gaps, anticipate future demands, and develop academic roadmaps that prepare a workforce ready to meet the demands of their region. 

MetaMetrics’ Lexile and Quantile measures map a trajectory of reading and math ability, showing what it takes, academically, to be successful for a desired job. 

By analyzing student measures across broader cohorts, education agencies gain a complete picture of reading and math performance statewide, allowing them to focus resources in the districts that need them most, scale best practices, and maximize funding opportunities through Perkins and WIOA grants. In doing so, agencies demonstrate compliance with federal and state career exploration mandates while helping educators guide learners to create an educational path, set meaningful goals, and take ownership of their future.