Vital Indicators of Progress – Nonsense Word Fluency (VIP-NWF)

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.
1800 Valley View Lane, Suite 400
Dallas, TX 75234
Phone: 888-399-1995
www.voyagerlearning.com

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 Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) is a standardized, individually-administered test of the alphabetic principle including letter-sound correspondence and of the ability to blend letters into words in which letters represent their most common sounds.

The student is presented with randomly ordered Vowel-Consonant and Consonant-Vowel-Consonant nonsense words and asked to verbally produce the individual letter sound of each letter or verbally produce, or read, the whole nonsense word.  When students recode (blend) words they will receive a higher score than when they produce letter sounds in isolation.

VIP–NWF 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 phonemes the student correctly produces within one minute.

NWF has 2 benchmark forms and 9 alternate forms for Kindergarten, 3 benchmark forms and 9 alternate forms for first grade, and 1 benchmark and 8 alternate forms for second grade for a total of 6 benchmark forms and 26 alternate forms.