New One-Click Benchmark Performance Levels Reporting Widget by ATI

The new Benchmark Performance Levels reporting widget accessible from the Teacher Dashboard summarizes multiple measures of student performance on district benchmark assessments (e.g., mathematics, English language arts, and other subject areas) for your entire class at once. The colorful pie chart and interactive data displays of assessment results can be used to guide instruction, intervention, and enrichment using the Galileo Digital Curriculum Platform and Galileo online lessons (e.g., Dialogs). Benchmark Performance Levels reporting widget highlights follow.

One-click “Big Picture Class Summary” for each assessment including: 

• color-coded performance levels (e.g., highly proficient, partially proficient) including number and percent of students at each level
• easy-to-interpret Developmental Level (DL) Score range for each performance level
• instant access to number of students assessed, average percent correct, average DL Score, and average percent of standards mastered for the class

One-click “Detailed Class Portrait” for each assessment including:

• total points, percent correct, DL Score, and performance level for each student
• color-coded standards mastery level for each standard assessed (e.g., exceeds standard, meets standard)
• item count for each standard assessed
• one-click access to all items used to assess each standard, including item meta-data (e.g., Depth of Knowledge)
• rapid “Data Search” allowing search by student name, total points, percent correct, or DL score 
• one-click “Data Sorting” in ascending or descending order by student names, total points, percent correct, DL Score, percent of standards mastered, or standards mastery category  
• instant Comparative Analysis Report summarizing assessment results for the class, school, and district
• one-click “Excel Export” for use in conducting further analysis and for creating additional graphical displays such as pivot tables and bar graphs

Register to attend the Thursday, November 2 Learning on Demand session "Exploring the New Benchmark Performance Levels Reporting Widget." Margaret Johnson, ATI Professional Development Specialist, will walk you through accessing and interpreting data from the Benchmark Performance Levels reporting widget. She will illustrate how the summary data as well as the individual student data can be generated which helps to inform instruction and monitor student progress throughout the year. The Learning on Demand session is designed specifically for teachers and specialists responsible for instructional interventions and progress monitoring.

Register on the "Upcoming" tab in the Training Center.

One-click reporting options available in the new Benchmark Performance Levels reporting widget.

Additional Sources of Interest

Fall Learning on Demand Schedule
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Comprehensive Assessment System - Webinar Recording

Seeing the Big Picture with Galileo’s Comprehensive Assessment System

The webinar “Seeing the Big Picture with Galileo’s Comprehensive Assessment System” was quite a success. Thank you to all who logged on and participated in the event. The webinar gave insight into the different components of the Galileo comprehensive assessment system and answered the following questions:

• What is the Galileo comprehensive assessment system?
• What makes a benchmark series comprehensive?
• How do teachers use the data on student standards mastery, performance and risk, and growth that is generated and available in Galileo?
• What tools does Galileo offer to incorporate student performance data into educator evaluation or measures of instructional effectiveness? 

If you missed the webinar or would like to forward it on to a co-worker, the link is provided below. 

Watch the webinar recording.

ATI webinars offer exciting insight into Galileo including the technology that has enabled us to build over 9,000 unique assessments containing nineteen different types of technology enhanced items. The webinars are complimentary and are recorded for later viewing. The recordings can be accessed from the ATI website along with many other helpful videos, Dialogs, and webisodes. View the full schedule of the complimentary webinars demonstrating how thoroughly and flexibly Galileo technology supports educators. Register today. 

Galileo Dashboard Reports Facilitate Differentiated Instruction

Galileo® K-12 Online Dashboard reports provide educators with the right tools for facilitating data-driven, standards-based differentiated instruction of three essential types:  

• skill mastery instruction guided through information from the Test Monitoring Report and Detailed Item Analysis Report;
• standards mastery instruction guided through information from the Intervention Alert and Instruction Performance Tracker Report; and
• pattern of progress mastery instruction guided through information from the Student Growth and Achievement Report.

In addition, Galileo provides students with rapid access to a broad diversity of differentiated instructional learning opportunities aligned with their learning needs and pattern of progress. These opportunities include resources available in Galileo Instructional Dialogs coupled with district/educator developed/determined materials and with resources available on the web such as those from KHAN ACADEMY®*. Both local resources and those from the web can be delivered through customized Instructional Dialogs in Galileo.
    

Galileo Instructional Dialogs offer students interactive, multi-modal opportunities to learn and apply skills. In addition, practice items with real-time feedback are embedded throughout the Dialogs along with a brief formative assessment at the end of instruction to help measure impact. Click to view larger. 

Galileo also provides direct links to web-based instructional resources such as those from KHAN ACADEMY® As with Dialogs, these materials may be viewed, selected and scheduled for a student, class or tiered intervention group. Click to view larger. 

These unique Galileo features facilitate rapid planning and scheduling of learning opportunities for all students. Contact our friendly and knowledgeable Field Services Coordinators to learn more or read more and view an illustration of planning differentiated instruction at the standards mastery level. 

* PLEASE NOTE: All KHAN ACADEMY® content is available for free at www.khanacademy.org.


Galileo Technology Providing Cutting-Edge Solutions for Curriculum, Assessment, and Instructional Effectiveness Initiatives

Galileo K-12 Online Instructional Improvement and Effectiveness System from Assessment Technology Incorporated is comprehensive, standards-based, and research supported. The system provides an array of curriculum, assessment, instructional effectiveness, and reporting tools aligned to Common Core and local state standards and facilitates advancements in teaching strategies, assessments, and implementation of instructional effectiveness initiatives.

Galileo’s tools help users to:

• Administer a full range of assessments including benchmark, formative, screening and placement tests, plus interim and final course examinations, pretests and posttests, technology enhanced early literacy and early math assessment series, computerized adaptive tests, and instructional effectiveness assessments.
• Evaluate instruction based on reliable and valid assessment information including continuously updated forecasts of student achievement on statewide tests.
• Use Item Response Theory generated assessment information to guide classroom instruction, enrichment, and reteaching interventions.
• Receive immediate assessment feedback providing the ability to track student progress towards standards mastery and inform instructional decisions using Galileo’s Dashboards.
• Elevate student achievement by using Galileo benchmark assessment data to inform instruction. A study, called for by the Massachusetts Department of Education and completed by MAGI Services, evaluated the use of Galileo K-12 Online and revealed that when teachers used Galileo benchmark data to guide instruction, achievement was enhanced.

Experience Galileo for yourself. There are a number of ways to learn first-hand about Galileo K-12 Online. You can:

• Visit the Assessment Technology Incorporated website.
• Participate in an online demonstration.
• Check out the variety of resources available including videos, webisodes, webinars or Dialogs.
• Contact an ATI Field Services Coordinator.