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Independent Evaluation of Indiana Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program Finds Voyager Passport Most Favorable
Independent Evaluation of Indiana Early Literacy Intervention Grant Program Finds Voyager Passport Most Favorable
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 throughoutthe 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 asBuffalo,Miami,New York City,
Richmond, Va.,El Paso andLos Angeles, resulting in dramatically improved
student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is a business unit of
Voyager Learning Company (OTC: VLCY.PK) and based inDallas, Texas. For more
information, please visit www.voyagerlearning.com or call 1-888-399-1995.
SOURCE Voyager Learning Company
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