More than 25 years of research has shown that listening to a child read graded passages aloud for 1 minute and calculating the number of words read correct per minute provides a highly reliable and valid measure of general reading achievement, including comprehension, for most students. The Versant Oral Reading Fluency tests provide you with an option to conduct this assessment in a way that is more efficient and consistent than traditional methods - while still supporting the educational standards you strive to achieve.

The Versant Oral Reading Fluency tests enable you to:

• assess student reading achievement to shape instructional approaches and better target remediation.
• introduce a practical way to support No Child Left Behind efforts.
• dramatically reduce the time needed by teachers to administer and score oral reading fluency tests.
• deliver more objective, consistent assessments without the variability typical of multiple teachers and administrations.
• track detailed score reports to both benchmark reading levels and monitor progress on an ongoing basis.

The Versant Oral Reading Fluency Tests are built around the AIMSweb Reading Curriculum Based Measurement passages that were developed and field tested by experienced educators. The AIMSweb studies show the tests to be reliable and valid measures of oral reading fluency.

The Versant testing systems allows you to evaluate all of your students on an equal basis with objective, unbiased scoring. The tests are also curriculum independent, ensuring that student achievement is assessed equitably regardless of curriculum differences among teachers and schools, or changes in curriculum over time.

Teachers can easily administer the Versant Oral Reading Fluency Tests by having students take the test over the telephone or a classroom computer. Ordinate automatically scores a student sample within minutes of being submitted, making a detailed score report available for the teacher in the reporting system.