Discover the First of its Kind: The Galileo® K-12 Online Digital Curriculum Platform

Thank you to all who logged on and participated in the webinar January 20. During the webinar, Dr. Jason Feld demonstrated the next generation of Galileo K-12 Online technology, the Galileo Digital Curriculum Platform. The platform is a practical and complete system that supports a seamless integration between standards-based instruction, balanced assessment, and Dashboard reporting to promote learning.

Webinar recording.

The webinar highlighted 8 key points within the Galileo K-12 Online Digital Curriculum Platform:

• Item Response Theory 
• Multi-Level Differentiated Instruction
• Alignment with Your State Standards
• Streamlined Online Curriculum Creation
• One-Stop Interactive Dashboards
• Platform Agility and Adaptability
• Standards-Aligned Item Banks for K-12
• K-12 Multimodal Instructional Content

To learn more, watch the webinar recording or contact a friendly ATI Field Services Coordinator.

Assessment Technology Item Development Process

Each item in our extensive item bank libraries is written to exacting standards of review and certification by in-house subject-area experts. Our writing and review process ensures that the assessment content is accurately aligned to the standards. ATI’s development of item specifications and diverse item types allows districts to administer assessments that address their particular needs in student measurement.

Statistical data is collected on test items to confirm the validity and reliability of the measurement. Parameters on difficulty, discrimination, and guessing inform student developmental level scores that districts can use to predict performance on state-wide tests and to inform intervention efforts in the classroom to improve that performance.

Items in ATI’s Galileo K-12 Online item banks are linked to Depth of Knowledge and item specification documents. Texts used in the item banks are aligned to Lexile® Measures and Flesch-Kincaid readability scores. The items are evaluated relative to released items from national consortia and state-wide testing instruments to ensure comparability. Additionally, ATI offers item types and content beyond what is offered in state testing instruments to afford districts diverse and customizable measures of instruction and learning.

Key Features of Galileo K-12 Assessment Items

• Item banks feature more than 75,000 items linked to current state standards.
  
• Item banks grow by over 800 items per month.
  
• More than 15 distinctive item types including interactive text, drag and drop, open response, and multi-part.
  
• Item banks feature more than 10,000 Technology Enhanced items.
• Content covers  K-12 ELA, math, and science.
  
• Secure assessment content for district-wide use and community assessment banks for classroom users.
  
• Additional user-created content available in non-state tested subject areas.

Discover the First of its Kind: The Galileo® K-12 Online Digital Curriculum Platform Technology Innovation and Applied Research on Learning that Connect Dynamic Curriculum, Comprehensive Assessment, and Actionable Reporting in One Practical and Complete System

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Recognizing the importance of integrating dynamic digital curriculum with research-based assessment, ATI has developed the next generation of Galileo K-12 Online technology, the Galileo Digital Curriculum Platform. Built on the foundation of ATI's nationally recognized Research and Development Program, the platform creates a seamless integration between standards-based instruction, balanced assessment, and Dashboard reporting to promote learning. 

This webinar will highlight 8 key points within the Galileo K-12 Online Digital Curriculum Platform:

• Item Response Theory
• Multi-Level Differentiated Instruction
• Alignment with Your State Standards
• Streamlined Online Curriculum Creation
• One-Stop Interactive Dashboards
• Platform Agility and Adaptability
• Standards-Aligned Item Banks for K-12
• K-12 Multimodal Instructional Content

Intended Audience: Curriculum and Assessment Directors, Curriculum and Assessment Teams, District Administrators, Instructional Specialists, and Teachers

Please register to join Dr. Jason K. Feld, Ph.D., with ATI for this complimentary webinar on Wednesday, January 20 from 11:00 am to noon EST to examine innovative technology that connects dynamic curriculum, comprehensive assessment, and actionable reporting into one practical and complete system.

Streamlining Student Data Importation

In recent school years, districts and charter schools using the Galileo Data Import (GDI) program to input student enrollment and demographic information to Galileo K-12 Online have enjoyed numerous enhancements to the process. The enhancements and their benefits include:

• Automated quality assurance (QA):  Automating QA has increased importation accuracy and has greatly reduced the risk of importation error or duplication. It has also enabled ATI importation staff to review 100% of imported data for a growing client base. 
• Automated file preparation:  Building file preparation routines using Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros eliminates the need for importation staff to manipulate data manually prior to loading the file for QA review. This, too, greatly reduces the risk of error and increases both accuracy and turnaround time

Enhancements such as these have been instrumental in enabling ATI to offer no-evaluation importation (NEI). Districts on NEI, and able to provide transactional (change-only) files, import data as often as daily. This improved turnaround time has resulted in ATI being able to substantially increase the number of full QA updates that can be processed. 

Preparations are underway for additional GDI streamlining for the 2016-17 school year that will increase GDI support for districts and charter schools with smaller technical staff and often requiring full QA review of import files. ATI will be releasing updated program guidelines offering template-based formats. This will allow ATI to standardize the process for districts employing the new templates and provide shorter turnaround times.  

We will announce here and on the Galileo K-12 login announcements when the new templates are released!