Vital Indicators of Progress – Initial Sound Fluency (VIP-ISF) |
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Year 1: Included in the purchase of Voyager Passport or Voyager Universal Literacy System. Includes teachers’ administration guide, training material, student recording booklets, and progress monitoring probes. Call Voyager at 1-888-399-1995 for purchase information. Subsequent years: New level: full replacement cost for student kit. |
Testers will require less than 1 hour of training. Paraprofessionals can administer the test. Accommodations: A list of VIP approved accommodations is available in the “VIP-Approved Accommodations” document. VIP-approved accommodations are alterations that are unlikely to substantially change the meaning or interpretation of scores on the VIP measures or the target skill being assessed by the measure. Approved accommodations include those related to retesting and test-teach-test, setting and tester, direction, stimulus materials, and student response. Changes in the timing of VIP assessments or untimed administrations are not approved accommodations. |
Voyager Expanded Learning. L.P. The Teachers Resource Kit includes items provided to administer measures. Training materials include tutorials to become proficient in administering the measures, including specific instructions on administering the measure and a VIP Practice Manual including video and partner practice. Ongoing technical support provided by Voyager Expanded Learning. |
Vital Indicators of Progress (VIP) is a series of easy and extremely dependable oral assessments that provide immediate feedback on the reading progress of each student, classroom and school. Results for the VIP benchmarks identify if a student is a struggling, an emerging, or an on-track reader. In order to ensure that students make progress toward the benchmark goals and remain on an upward trajectory, teachers administer progress monitoring measures to students who are identified as struggling or emerging either bi-weekly or monthly. The VIP measure Initial Sound Fluency (ISF) is a standardized, individually-administered measure of phonological awareness that assesses a child’s ability to recognize and produce the initial sound in an orally presented word. The examiner presents four pictures to the child, names each picture, and then asks the child to identify the picture that begins with the sound produced orally by the examiner. For example, the examiner says, “This is sink, cat, gloves, and hat. Which picture begins with /s/?” and the student points to the correct picture. The child is also asked to orally produce the beginning sound for an orally presented word that matches one of the given pictures. The examiner calculates the amount of time taken to identify/produce the correct sound and converts the score into the number of onsets correct in a minute. |
VIP–ISF takes 1 minute to administer and 1 minute to score. Raw and developmental benchmarks scores are available based on grade norms. The raw score is calculated by multiplying the correct number of responses by 60 then dividing by the total number of seconds to complete all the questions. This yields the number of correct initial sounds per minute. ISF has 2 benchmark forms and 9 progress monitoring forms for kindergarten. |