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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.
Data-Based Success
- Great Leadership, Great Gains – Columbine Elementary School
- Big Changes, Bigger Results – Laveen Elementary School District
- Refined Instruction, Remarkable Growth – Nanakuli Elementary School
- Strong Strategies, Successful Students – Noralto Elementary School
- Overcoming Growing Pains – Vail School District
Research Papers
- Assessing the Relative Fit of Alternative Item Response Theory Models to the Data
- Benchmark Assessment in Standards-Based Education
- Forecasting Statewide Test Performance and Adequate Yearly Progress from District Assessments
- Standards Mastery Determined by Benchmark and Statewide Test Performance
Resources
- Building Reliable and Valid Benchmark Assessments
- Meeting Local, State, and Federal Instructional Improvement System Requirements. A Resource Document for LEAs: Illustrated through the Galileo K-12 Online Instructional Improvement System
- Projecting Risk and Identifying Intervention Groups
Technical Manual
White Papers
- Dynamic Intervention Systems: Integrating Research and Management to Support Learning in Standards-Based Education
- Galileo K-12 Online Educational Management System
- Research as a Reality Check on Intervention Investments
- Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees
Presentation Summary Documents
Arizona K-3 Standards-Based Assessment and Education Symposium September 28, 2010
