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Career Database API
Identify a career’s reading and math demands in Lexile and Quantile metrics for goal setting and career preparedness.
About Career Database API
The Career Database identifies the reading and mathematics ability necessary for career preparedness. It provides Lexile® and Quantile® measures related to each career as well as important descriptive information.

APIs
- Scoring Service API
  Assigns an ability estimate to an assessment-taker in the form of a Lexile Reading, El Sistema Reading, or Quantile measure.
- Lexile Text Analyzer API
  Analyzes text to produce Lexile text measures on custom content.
- Titles API
  Access more than 470,000 hardcover, e-books, paperback, trade and other titles.
- Forecasting API
  Forecast an individual student or group performance on an upcoming assessment.
- Growth Planner API
  Plot a student's projected growth using Lexile or Quantile measures.
- Oral Reading API
  Measures a student's oral reading ability and the oral readability of text on the same scale.
- PowerV API
  Create and access vocabulary lists for over thousands of titles with the Titles Database.
- Career Database API
  Identify a career’s reading and math demands in Lexile and Quantile metrics for goal setting and career preparedness.
  - About Career Database API
    The Career Database identifies the reading and mathematics ability necessary for career preparedness. It provides Lexile® and Quantile® measures related to each career as well as important descriptive information.
  - API Calls
  - Career Database FAQ
    The Career Database identifies the reading and mathematics ability necessary for career preparedness. It provides Lexile^® and Quantile^® measures related to each career and crucial descriptive information.
  - Career Database Glossary
    The Career Database provides information about the reading and mathematical demands of a career as well as additional information that might be useful for determining career interests and readiness. This table describes all of the types of information contained in the database.

About Career Database API

The Career Database identifies the reading and mathematics ability necessary for career preparedness. It provides Lexile® and Quantile® measures related to each career as well as important descriptive information.

The database is a result of years of research examining text complexity and mathematical demands in various domains of the post-secondary experience. It uses Lexile and Quantile scales to measure readiness across all careers and is an excellent resource to address the current emphasis on career readiness. Lexile and Quantile measures are the only metrics available to compare and describe the reading and math demands of a career.

The Career Database API can be used for integration into Lexile and Quantile partner products and services. With the Career Database and student Lexile and Quantile measures, educators and students can identify the reading and mathematics ability needed to enter into a desired career and use this information to inform goal setting. The careers featured within the Career Database include numerous careers identified as Bright Outlook Occupations by O*NET, the premier online career search database designed for the U.S. Department of Labor. Bright Outlook Occupations are careers that are expected to grow and/or emerge in the next few years and offer large numbers of new job openings.

The careers in the database are typically updated once annually.