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Composition of a Comprehensive Assessment System
Assessment Technology Incorporated
January 2011
A well-designed comprehensive assessment system includes many different types of assessment serving the needs of students from preschool to the 12th grade. The various assessment types serve different purposes and provide many benefits. ATI’s comprehensive assessment system includes benchmark, formative, screening and placement tests, plus interim and final course examinations, pretests and posttests, and instruments documenting instructional effectiveness. Perhaps the most important benefit of a comprehensive assessment system is that it supports the ability to adapt to continuous change. Learn more.
Galileo Instructional Data System Pilot Project Evaluation
MAGI Services — A Measurement Incorporated Company
Funded by recipients of a federal grant administered by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
February 2009
“…the Massachusetts Department of Education (MADOE) contracted with Assessment Technology, Inc. to supply and implement an instructional data system named Galileo Online. …The evaluation of the Galileo Instructional System Pilot Project (known hereafter as Galileo) was conducted by an independent research and evaluation company, MAGI Services, a Measurement Incorporated Company. …All told, the findings in this study demonstrate strong evidence that the project was a success. The benchmark assessments provided teachers with a tool to inform and shape their instruction, with the goal of increasing student mastery of standards. The benchmarks were reasonably aligned with the statewide assessments and could be used to inform districts and schools educators on how students would perform on the statewide assessments.” Read more.
Instructional Effectiveness Assessment
Assessment Technology Incorporated
February 2012
The fundamental premise underlying current efforts to assess instructional effectiveness is that good teaching and effective educational management ought to produce enhanced learning. In an effort to support school and district instructional effectiveness initiatives, Assessment Technology Incorporated (ATI) has undertaken the development of an integrated Instructional Effectiveness Assessment System (IEAS). The IEAS is currently being piloted in over 30 school districts. This document describes the components of the system, and presents early findings from the pilot initiative Learn more.
About Galileo K-12 Online
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Comprehensive Instructional Improvement and Instructional Effectiveness System
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Professional Development
Frequently Asked Questions
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ASK Technology
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ATI and Common Core State Standards
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ATI Community Assessment and Item Banking Initiative
- ATI Early Literacy Benchmark Assessment Series
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Galileo Instructional Effectiveness Assessment System
Research Briefs
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Categorical Growth Analysis: A Method Involving the Repeated-Measure T-Test
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Effect of Prior Grade-Level Content on Pretest Reliability
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Predictive Validity and Forecasting Accuracy for the 2011-12 School Year
Research Papers
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Assessing the Relative Fit of Alternative Item Response Theory Models to the Data
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Benchmark Assessment in Standards-Based Education
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Forecasting Statewide Test Performance and Adequate Yearly Progress from District Assessments
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Standards Mastery Determined by Benchmark and Statewide Test Performance
Resources
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Building Reliable and Valid Benchmark Assessments
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Galileo K-12 Online Next Generation Comprehensive Assessment System
- Instructional Effectiveness Initiatives and the Galileo Comprehensive
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Meeting Local, State, and Federal Instructional Improvement System Requirements. A Resource Document for LEAs:
Illustrated through the Galileo K-12 Online Instructional Improvement System
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Projecting Risk and Identifying Intervention Groups
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Quick Facts Sheet: Galileo Instructional Effectiveness Assessment System
Technical Manual
White Papers
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A Brief Review of the Literature of Test Feedback
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Building Reading Benchmark Assessments that Align with Common Core State Standards
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Developing District Test Security Protocols
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Dynamic Intervention Systems: Integrating Research and Management to Support Learning
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Galileo K-12 Online Educational Management System
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Item Development and Test Construction Guidelines
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Research as a Reality Check on Intervention Investments
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Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees
Presentation Summary Documents
Implementing a Comprehensive Instructional Effectiveness Assessment System
Assessment Technology Incorporated Webinar
March 26, 2013
Integrating Technology and Teaching Strategies to Develop Common Core Curricula
Assessment Technology Incorporated Webinar
February 26, 2013
Building a Research-Based Approach to Support Local Educational Agency Implementation of the Arizona Framework for Measuring Educator Effectiveness
Arizona Educational Research Organization 25th Annual Conference keynote presentation
October 26, 2012 and adapted for the Arizona Charter Schools Association Annual Conference November 2, 2012
Common Core and School Improvement Symposium: Strategies for Making College and Career Readiness a Reality
Pearson Symposium with a presentation by ATI
March 5 and 6, 2012
- Common Core Services
- Galileo K-12 Online
- Learning Teams
- Nanakuli Elementary School and Galileo Success Story
- Schoolwide Improvement Model
Common Core Standards: Integrating Local Accountability and a Comprehensive Assessment System
Joint WestEd: SchoolsMovingUp, Creighton School District, and ATI Webinar
February 29, 2012
- View Webinar Video
- Common Core Standards: Integrating Local Accountability and a Comprehensive Assessment System
- Tools for Reform: Creighton School District
- Composition of a Comprehensive Assessment System
Arizona K-3 Standards-Based Assessment and Education Symposium
September 28, 2010
