Vital Indicators of Progress – Letter Naming Fluency (VIP-LNF) |
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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. The VIP measure Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) is a standardized, individually-administered test that provides a measure of risk. Students are presented with a page of upper- and lower-case letters arranged in a random order and are asked to name as many letters as they can. The score is the number of letters named correctly in one minute. LNF is administered for three benchmarks. |
VIP–LNF 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 counting the number of correct letter names within one minute. LNF has 4 benchmark forms, and no alternate forms for kindergarten. |