System Overview
Galileo K-12 Online from Assessment Technology Incorporated is a comprehensive, standards‑based instructional improvement and Instructional effectiveness system, providing assessment and instructional tools and containing an embedded Instructional Effectiveness Assessment System designed to help districts implement educator effectiveness initiatives. Built on the principles of science and supported by a commitment to research, Galileo K-12 Online is guided by a vision that everyone should benefit from the opportunities and transformations of technology. ATI’s patented technology is uniquely qualified to address district goals when implementing standards‑based strategies to raise student achievement and educator effectiveness initiatives.
Galileo K-12 Online continues to advance as educators’ needs, federal and state requirements, research, and technology evolve. Galileo offers implementation planning, plus monitoring and management tools to facilitate district-wide collaborative action planning and problem solving.
ATI’s technology supports educators through valid, reliable assessments aligned to state standards and a broad range of online modules offering rapid and flexible access to innovative assessment, reporting, instruction and intervention tools. Galileo assessment results provide immediate feedback, the ability to forecast and track student progress towards standards mastery, and the ability to inform instructional decisions. ATI ASK Technology provides educators the ability to import, schedule, deliver, administer (online or offline), automatically score and report on assessments created outside of Galileo K-12 Online. An interactive approach to standards‑based instruction, through Instructional Dialogs, promotes mastery of standards by integrating assessment into the instructional process in real-time. Report Card components are also standards‑based.
Among the most salient axioms of our time is the realization that a highly educated citizenry capable of producing technological advancements not yet imagined is essential to the achievement of a better world in the 21st century. ATI has chosen as its mission the creation of technology to promote learning. It is our goal and privilege to contribute to the advancement of educational technology through ongoing research and development initiatives. The Galileo K-12 Online Instructional Improvement System is the continuously evolving result of the pursuit of this goal.