VIP-PSF

Vital Indicators of Progress – Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (VIP-PSF)
Cost	Technology, Human Resources, and Accommodations for Special Needs	Service & Support	Purpose & Other Implementation Information	Usage & Reporting
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 Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) is a standardized, individually-administered test of phonological awareness. The PSF measure assesses a student’s ability to segment three- and four-phoneme words into their individual phonemes fluently. The PSF task is administered by the examiner orally presenting words of three to four phonemes. It requires the student to produce verbally the individual phonemes for each word. The score is the number of correct phonemes produced in one minute. Scoring is done on the Student Record Sheet. Sound segments produced correctly are underlined, sound segments produced incorrectly receive a slash (/), and omitted sounds are not marked. The total score is obtained by counting up the underlined sound segments.	VIP–PSF 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 sound segments the student pronounces correctly within one minute. PSF has 2 benchmark forms and 9 alternate forms for progress monitoring in kindergarten and 3 benchmark forms and 9 alternate forms in first grade for a total of 5 benchmark and 18 alternate forms.

Vital Indicators of Progress – Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (VIP-PSF)

Cost

Technology, Human Resources, and Accommodations for Special Needs

Service & Support

Purpose & Other Implementation Information

Usage & Reporting

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 Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) is a standardized, individually-administered test of phonological awareness. The PSF measure assesses a student’s ability to segment three- and four-phoneme words into their individual phonemes fluently. The PSF task is administered by the examiner orally presenting words of three to four phonemes. It requires the student to produce verbally the individual phonemes for each word. The score is the number of correct phonemes produced in one minute.

Scoring is done on the Student Record Sheet. Sound segments produced correctly are underlined, sound segments produced incorrectly receive a slash (/), and omitted sounds are not marked. The total score is obtained by counting up the underlined sound segments.

VIP–PSF 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 sound segments the student pronounces correctly within one minute.

PSF has 2 benchmark forms and 9 alternate forms for progress monitoring in kindergarten and 3 benchmark forms and 9 alternate forms in first grade for a total of 5 benchmark and 18 alternate forms.