When we talk about the "ARCS Comparison Profile," we are referring to learners in one of the 11 profiles we created from the ARCS (the Adult Reading Components Study) who have reading abilities most similar to your learner's. If your learner had been a participant in the ARCS, she/he would have been in this profile. That is why your learner has been matched and is being compared to this particular research-based reading profile.

You can see more about the process used to create the ARCS profiles by clicking on the "How Did We Create the Profiles" menu item on the sidebar in the page below.