DALLAS, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent study released by the Center
for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP), Voyager Passport(TM), a K-5,
reading intervention program designed by Voyager Expanded Learning(R), was
the most favored program out of the four commercially available
interventions in The Indiana Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program
(ELIGP) Evaluation Study. The programs were implemented during the
2006-2007 school year.
ELIGP was established to improve the literacy skills of at-risk
students in preschool through grade two. The program also allowed schools
to maintain local control in the selection of literacy interventions.
In the report, grant coordinators gave the highest rating to Voyager
Passport, 9.5 out of 10 versus 8.22 among all programs, on how fully
schools implemented the intervention. Teachers in the Voyager Passport
group reported having more training; 93 percent reported receiving program
training from Voyager while only 67 percent of teachers in other programs
reported receiving training from the developer.
"This report demonstrates one of our hallmarks -- the service and
support we provide to schools using our programs -- which help teachers
become effective in providing intervention," says Julia Peyton, Ph.D., vice
president of research for Voyager. "Our service model continues to be
unmatched and teachers find the program friendly enough to implement
effectively."
Voyager Passport (N = 559) showed strong achievement growth, while
schools and students using the three other programs saw either minimal
change or a decline in student achievement.
Three indicators of performance were used in the CEEP/ELIGP report
based on DIBELS(R) scores from fall 2006 to early spring 2007 including
increase, no change, and decline. The goal is for the percentage of
students increasing in status based on the DIBELS score to be high, and the
percentage of students decreasing in DIBELS status to be minimal.
Voyager Passport exceeded the average in all three grade levels for
increase in the percentage of students making positive DIBELS categorical
change and decrease in the percentage of students experiencing negative
categorical change by 7 percentage points in kindergarten, 18 percentage
points in first grade, and 10 percentage points in second grade.
"High quality evaluations such as these are invaluable to schools and
district decision makers because they can learn about the effectiveness of
intervention programs used in real world settings. We find this report to
be a true reflection of the effectiveness of Voyager Passport," says
Peyton.
A link to the complete report can be found at:
http://ceep.indiana.edu/projects/PDF/ELIGP_Final_Report.pdf
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 1000 school districts in cities such as Buffalo, Miami, New York
City, Richmond, Va., El Paso and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically
improved student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is a business
unit of Voyager Learning Company (OTC: VLCY.PK) and based in Dallas, Texas.
For more information, please visit http://www.voyagerlearning.com or call
1-888-399-1995.
SOURCE Voyager Learning Company
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CONTACT:
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