DALLAS, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Expanded Learning announced
today that its reading progress monitoring tool, Vital Indicators of
Progress(R), also known as VIP(R), received seven out of seven
"demonstrates sufficient evidence to meet the basic standard" on two
measures (Nonsense Word Fluency and Phoneme Segmentation), and six out of
seven "demonstrates sufficient evidence to meet the basic standard" on two
additional measures (Initial Letter Sound Fluency and Letter Naming
Fluency), after a review by the National Center on Student Progress
Monitoring. Results of the review are posted on the organization's website
(http://www.studentprogress.org/chart/chart.asp).
"In the 2006-2007 academic year, hundreds of thousands of students were
assessed and progress monitored at all three benchmark periods with the VIP
measures in the Voyager Universal Literacy System(R), our preventative core
reading program for kindergarten through third grade, and in Voyager
Passport(TM), our reading intervention program for kindergarten through
fifth grade," says Dr. Julia Peyton, Vice President of Research and
Development for Voyager. "Because data-driven decision making and on-going
progress monitoring are critical elements to effective intervention, we
include these measures as an essential component of our reading programs,"
she added.
VIP is integrated into each of Voyager's reading programs and is
supported by VPORT(R), Voyager's online data management tool that allows
educators to access real-time reports on students' academic progress. The
VPORT data management system is also included in each program at no
additional charge.
Based on the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
developed by the Joint Committee appointed by the American Educational
Research Association (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA),
the National Council on Measurement Used in Education (NCMUE) and the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Center's Technical
Review Committee identified seven standards of technical adequacy
(Reliability, Validity, Alternate Forms, Sensitive to Student Improvement,
AYP Benchmarks, Improving Student Learning or Teacher Planning and Rates of
Improvement Specified) that are critical to the Center's definition of
evidence-based student progress monitoring.
The National Center has established a standard process to evaluate the
scientific rigor of commercially available tools to monitor student's
progress. Tools that were found sufficient and met the Center's criteria
for scientifically based progress monitoring tools are disseminated through
the Center's various technical assistance and dissemination activities and
through their website.
About Voyager Expanded Learning
Voyager Expanded Learning provides core, intervention and supplemental
reading programs, as well as math intervention and ongoing professional
development programs, for school districts throughout the United States.
Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic
skills intervention programs, as well as large-scale reading programs, to
more than 900 school districts in cities such as Miami, Richmond, New York
and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improved student performance.
Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is a business unit of Voyager Learning
Company (OTC Pink Sheets: VLCY) and is based in Dallas, Texas. For more
information, please visit http://www.voyagerlearning.com or call 1-888-399-1995.
SOURCE Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc.
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http://www.studentprogress.org/chart/chart.asp
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CONTACT:
Shannan Overbeck of Voyager Learning Company,
1-888-399-1995, ext. 9476, soverbeck@voyagerlearning.com
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