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Assessment is a critical part of effective instruction. Research has shown that educators who implement reliable and valid assessments to guide instructional decisions will promote student learning. That’s why ATI’s Galileo K-12 comprehensive assessment system is designed to help inform educational decisions promoting student learning in K-12 math, ELA, science, and other subjects. 

What makes the comprehensive assessment system exceptional?
Let’s begin with its broad array of standards-based, curriculum and pacing guide aligned customized assessments built to client specifications every year. ATI’s in-house Educational Management Services and Research teams, based on your assessment requests, do the assessment construction work for you. The resulting tests will not have accidental duplications across the academic year, will be free of item enemies, will address the Depth of Knowledge levels you specify, and will contain, if you so desire, technology enhanced items.

An additional option provided through the system is a wide variety of high-quality, pre-built assessments. These include benchmark, formative, pretest and posttest, placement, summative, computer adaptive, end-of-course, college prep assessments, plus more.  

ATI’s Secure and Community Item Banks offer 19 item types including constructed response and technology-enhanced items. Each of these item types is designed to engage students in complex thinking to help ensure college and career readiness. Educators can also access more assessment and item choices through the integrated Inspect® and Certica item banks, including Certica’s Navigate Item Bank™.

ATI understands that educators also need to be able to create their own items and assessments quickly and easily. To facilitate this, our intuitive and powerful Test Builder and Item Builder interfaces make creating your own assessments and items a snap. 

Taking a look under the hood—Item Response Theory
Options are great, but to understand what really makes the Galileo comprehensive assessment system so special, we need to take a look under the hood. Powered by ATI research, Galileo takes advantage of Item Response Theory (IRT), and other state-of-the-art statistical analyses to go beyond systems that only report raw scores and percent correct. ATI uses IRT to measure the Developmental Level (DL) of each student. The DL score indicates what students have already mastered and what they are ready to learn next.

Galileo assessments place DL scores and measures of test difficulty on a common scale ensuring that DL score changes reflect growth, not variations in test difficulty. DL scores can then be used to effectively forecast student performance on statewide assessments. Galileo’s innovative Dashboards graphically illustrate this critical information to help educators apply their efforts where needed most—making instruction even more effective.

Try the comprehensive assessment system through a complimentary trial

Contact us to start your complimentary trial of the Galileo comprehensive assessment system. With high-powered data, easy to use tools, and robust item banks, the Galileo comprehensive assessment system is designed to promote success for all students. This is the assessment system you've been searching for. Own your assessment-process and let research work for you, with the Galileo K-12 comprehensive assessment system.   

To learn more about other Galileo services and features, visit us at www.ati-online.com.

Other Resources of Interest:
Customized Galileo Launchpads Drive Efficiency
Multiple Online Testing Tools for Students
Galileo Offers Flexible and Dynamic Reporting Options

Galileo Offers Flexible and Dynamic Reporting Options

Information on student mastery is a critical element in the educational decision making process. To ensure the availability of appropriate data associated with multiple types of educational decision making, Galileo technology offers a broad set of ready-made, standards-aligned reports. For example, educators have expressed to us the importance of analyzing trends in student learning. Therefore, our team of developers created and added the Student Growth and Achievement Report to the menu of ready-made, standards-aligned reports in Galileo. This report provides a graphical cross-classification of students based on their growth between two tests and their achievement on the second test. This graphical summary is designed to facilitate the identification of student groups for intervention and enrichment (e.g., high performing students showing inadequate growth, low performing students showing exceptional growth).

Following is a sampling of current Galileo reporting capabilities:

• Curriculum Monitoring Reports provide the ability to monitor both the progress of instruction and evidence of student learning for each standard in a district curriculum. 
• “At-A-Glance” Overviews present highlights of data from multiple sources in one convenient location with direct links to more detailed reports. 
• Development Profiles provide counts and percentages regarding student performance on each of the standards assessed on a test. Ideal for monitoring progress in mastering specific standards. 
• Development Summaries present a series of standardized scores that summarize development at the individual student level or at various other levels of aggregation (e.g., class, individuation group). Ideal for monitoring progress in terms of the relative standing of a student, class, or school. 
• Aggregate Multi-Test Reports provide Developmental Level scores for multiple tests presented on a common scale used to monitor progress and estimate mastery. These reports include two important forecasting tools for district-wide assessments: the Benchmark Performance Levels and Risk Levels displays.
• Display Benchmark Performance Levels Option provides counts and percentages of students at each of the statewide assessment performance levels. The user can drill down to identify the students at each of these levels for each benchmark assessment. Presented simultaneously for multiple assessments in order to monitor progress. 
• Display Risk Levels Option uses patterns of student performance across benchmark assessments to identify and monitor groups of students at various levels of risk with regard to passing statewide assessments. The user can drill down to identify groups of students at each level of risk for intervention. The report identifies standards for which intervention is required. 
• Testing Reports provide various types of information about tests, including item analysis (the pattern of student answers for each question), test scores aggregated at various levels, and Item Response Theory parameters for each item on the test. 
• Administrative Reports facilitate monitoring system activity including tracking administration of district-wide assessments, real-time monitoring of student progress during assessment administration, and user activity.

Dashboards: Central Location for Often Accessed Reports
Galileo Dashboards provide users a centralized location from which to view and interact with actionable, real-time data on student learning. Dashboards contain easily interpreted graphical reports that make it easy to identify trends in student performance. These reports also provide educators with actionable data and the right tools for facilitating data-driven, standards-based differentiated instruction based on skill mastery, standards mastery, and pattern of progress.

Student growth data and performance measurements can be accessed quickly from the Teacher Dashboard reporting options.

Data-Driven Differentiated Instruction
Galileo reports provide actionable assessment results that quickly inform differentiated instructional decision-making of three essential types:

• Skill mastery with instruction guided through information from the Test Monitoring Report and Detailed Item Analysis Report
• Standards mastery with instruction guided through information from the Intervention Alert and Instruction Performance Tracker
• Pattern of progress with instruction guided through information from the Student Growth and Achievement Report

The data from these reports supports the decision making power to easily provide students with a broad diversity of instructional materials aligned with individual student learning needs including ATI Instructional Dialogs, KHAN ACADEMY® videos, and activities, EngageNY lessons, LearnZillion resources, and educator-developed materials

Reliable Data on Student Learning
Galileo reports are generated from reliable and valid assessment results from district-wide benchmark, pretests and posttests, end-of-course, school/district and classroom formatives, and an array of other Galileo assessments. Report data details student learning in a number of ways including student mastery of standards, next instructional steps to promote learning with continuous tracking of student progress, and forecasting of student performance throughout the year. 

To learn more about the broad set of Galileo reports, access our website or contact a knowledgeable Field Services Coordinator.

Other Resources of Interest:
New One-Click Benchmark Performance Levels Reporting Widget by ATI
Galileo Dashboard Reports Facilitate Differentiated Instruction
Are You Currently Measuring Both Student Growth and Achievement (SGA)?