3 Key Capabilities Supporting Powerful, Data-driven Decision Making

Empowering educators with the right tools is the key towards having a successful year in the classroom. In this blog we will walk through a few key capabilities found in a comprehensive assessment system that can have an immediate impact in your classroom and help students soar on their learning path.

Let’s start with what we know. Research tells us that if we implement reliable and valid formative and benchmark assessments as part of a comprehensive assessment system, the data generated will provide teachers the information needed to guide and adjust instruction. This data positively impacts a student’s learning trajectory if implemented with fidelity in the classroom. 

What does a reliable and valid comprehensive assessment system look like? The Galileo K-12 Online Comprehensive Assessment System offers research-based assessments built to comprehensively reflect the content and skills reflected in state and national standards. This ensures that assessments can provide relevant and sufficient information about student learning to support decisions about whether students are on track or at risk. These assessments are designed to screen, diagnose, and monitor students’ learning and to inform instruction in English language arts, mathematics, and science. Several pre-built assessments are available in Galileo K-12 Online: the ATI Comprehensive Benchmark Assessment Series aligned to state test blueprints and the ATI Formative Assessment Series that provides brief technology-enhanced quizzes aligned to each standard. 

The Galileo Online’s comprehensive system will provide educators 3 key capabilities supporting powerful, data-driven decision making.

1. Universal screening capabilities. Educators can now give benchmark assessments to screen students for instructional placement at the beginning, middle, and end of each year. This allows teachers to evaluate students’ RTI tier designations three times a year. The Galileo K-12 assessment system automatically places students into the most relevant instruction for each student.
2. Progress monitoring. Formative assessments offer ongoing progress monitoring to keep educators informed on how students are learning and growing throughout the school year. Standard gaps are identified for each student. Then teachers can assign standards-based tests for weekly or bi-weekly progress checks, or even create their own tests from a large formative item bank.
3. Forecasting capabilities. Galileo K–12 has predictive capabilities built directly into the program allowing a district to load state or local test data into the system and receive almost immediate predictive state or local test performance data using the program’s benchmarks. Educators can see if their instruction is moving the needle towards proficiency, allowing them to make adjustments as needed.

This is just the tip of the ice berg of possibilities in Galileo K-12 Online. Other assessments that can impact your classroom and can be found in Galileo are the Dyslexia Screening Toolkit, adaptive placement tests, and college prep test designed to prepare student for test high-stakes tests formats. To learn more watch this brief video or for a personal guided demonstration to explore Galileo contact us today.

About our integration: Imagine Learning and Assessment Technology, Incorporated (ATI) have joined forces to offer an integrated comprehensive assessment system with the digital education curriculum giving educators more power to personalize instruction. This combination means that ATI’s flagship product, Galileo K-12, will be infused into Imagine Learning programs beginning with Imagine Language & Literacy for back to school 2019. Galileo K-12 will also be available as a stand-alone assessment solution.

Other resources:

The Benchmark Performance Levels Report Provides an In-Depth Analysis of Student Learning

ATI College Prep Benchmark Assessments