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ELECTRONIC PROPOSAL Assessment Technology, Incorporated Formative Assessment Response to the Mesa Unified School District No. 4 Request for Proposal No. 15-47MP Submitted February 19, 2015 2:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time Submitted by: Assessment Technology, Incorporated 6700 E. Speedway Boulevard TM Tucson, Arizona 85710 Phone: 520.323.9033 Fax: 520.323.9139 Copyright © Assessment Technology, Incorporated 2015 All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher. Assessment Technology, Incorporated, Publishers. Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. Printed in the United States of America. “Galileo” and the Galileo logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Assessment Technology Incorporated. Letter of Transmittal Creating Technology to Promote Learning 6700 E. Speedway Boulevard Tucson, Arizona 85710 1.800.367.4762 Cindi Hostetler 520.323.9033 Procurement Specialist Supervisor fax 520.323.9139 Mesa Unified School District #4 [email protected] 549 N. Stapley Drive, Building 1 ati-online.com Mesa, Arizona 85203 Dear Ms. Hostetler, This letter of transmittal accompanies (1) original, seven (7) hard copies, and one (1) electronic copy on CD of the response from Assessment Technology, Incorporated (ATI) to the request for proposal (RFP) for Formative Assessment issued by Mesa Unified School District #4, also referred to in District communications as Mesa Public Schools (MPS). ATI understands that MPS is seeking a student assessment and reporting software package that will provide information regarding student progress toward achieving mastery of Arizona’s College and Career Ready Standards. The solution should provide secure district assessments in grades three through eleven several times during the year and also allow teachers to create formative assessments and activities. Reporting must reflect mastery of state standards and enable schools to target needed areas of improvement. The solution must provide specific feedback in areas where students and schools need help to master the state standards. The system must also allow school management the ability to control the quality and administration of each assessment, monitor student progress, and generate key reports that will enable data-driven decision making. ATI is Arizona’s leading educational technology corporation providing research-based assessment, curriculum, and reporting services for children from birth through high school in Arizona and nationwide. Founded in Arizona in 1986, ATI currently serves more than 500 clients in 35 states nationwide, including more than 300 districts/charters in Arizona. Over the last 20 plus years, ATI leadership has been awarded large scale district/charter, state, and federal contracts that call for services similar to the current MPS initiative. Moreover, Galileo® technology is already implemented as part of numerous statewide initiatives in Arizona. For example, districts/charters implement Galileo technology and assessments as part of the implementation of their literacy plans related to Arizona’s Move On When Reading initiative and as part of their approaches to measuring teacher performance as consistent with Arizona’s recommended model for educator evaluation. As part of these initiatives and others, ATI staff Galileo® K-12 Online Instructional Improvement and Instructional Effectiveness System Prepared for: Mesa Unified School District No.4 RFP #15-47MP Formative Assessment – February 19, 2015 Copyright © Assessment Technology, Incorporated 2015. All rights reserved. i Letter of Transmittal collaborate with a wide variety of Arizona stakeholders (e.g., Arizona State University Marylou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona Governor’s Office of Education Innovation, ADE Information Technology Team, ADE Effective Teachers and Leaders Unit, BUILD Arizona Early Grade Success Workgroup, Read On Arizona Data Integration and System Linkages Task Force) to promote learning for all Arizona children. ATI is proud to be the first company in the nation to provide a comprehensive research- based instructional improvement and instructional effectiveness system. Our flagship product, the Galileo® K-12 Online Instructional Improvement and Instructional Effectiveness System (IIIES), includes a completely integrated comprehensive assessment system aligned to state standards including Arizona’s College and Career Ready Standards and Arizona State Academic Standards in a variety of content areas. Galileo provides the capability to administer multiple types of reliable, valid pre-built and customized district, school, and classroom assessments (e.g., summative, benchmark, interim, formative) in both state-tested (e.g., English language arts, math, science) and non-state tested (e.g., social studies, art, music) content areas. Galileo also provides access to over 131,000 standards-aligned items created by ATI’s Assessment and Instructional Design staff in math, English language arts, science, and writing including selected-response items, constructed-response items, technology-enhanced items, and performance-based tasks. Participation in the Community Assessment and Item Banking (CAIB) initiative also provides access to over 9,000 items written by districts/charters in additional content areas (e.g., social studies, music). All of the items are certified and aligned to standards of the state in which the items were developed. Participating districts may map items to other state or local standards as desired. Galileo is supported by an extensive ongoing research program. In particular, the effectiveness of Galileo technology has been documented by independent research funded by a federal grant administered by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and conducted by the MAGI Services Company as well as numerous data-verified success stories from ATI partner districts and schools in Arizona and nationwide. Galileo’s reliable, valid district-wide assessments will support the implementation of District instructional improvement and instructional effectiveness initiatives in all content areas by providing an Item Response Theory (IRT) based measure of student ability, the Developmental Level (DL) score, along with empirical information about student growth, achievement, standards mastery, and risk of failing to pass the statewide assessment. This actionable information is presented to teachers on the Galileo Teaching Dashboard along with recommendations for student groupings, targeted standards for differentiated instruction/intervention, and links to standards-based instructional materials (i.e., Instructional Dialogs). Administrators are also provided with the School Performance Dashboard that supports the evaluation of student growth and achievement at the school- and district-level. The Instructional Effectiveness Dashboard also can support the District in implementing initiatives designed to maximize instructional effectiveness and consistent with the Arizona state model for educator evaluation. In addition, the Galileo Digital Curriculum Galileo® K-12 Online Instructional Improvement and Instructional Effectiveness System Prepared for: Mesa Unified School District No.4 RFP #15-47MP Formative Assessment – February 19, 2015 Copyright © Assessment Technology, Incorporated 2015. All rights reserved. ii Letter of Transmittal Galileo® K-12 Online Instructional Improvement and Instructional Effectiveness System Prepared for: Mesa Unified School District No.4 RFP #15-47MP Formative Assessment – February 19, 2015 Copyright © Assessment Technology, Incorporated 2015. All rights reserved. iv Table of Contents Assessment Technology, Incorporated Formative Assessment Response to Mesa Unified School District #4 Request for Information #15-47MP Transmittal Letter .............................................................................................................................. i Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................. v Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ vii Tab 1. Statement of Qualifications and Experience ..................................................... 1 Tab 2. Scope ................................................................................................................ 35 Tab 2.1. General Expectations ................................................................. 35 Tab 2.2. RFP Objectives .......................................................................... 53 Tab 2.3. Solution ..................................................................................... 55 Tab 2.4. Training ...................................................................................... 71 Tab 2.5. Questionnaire ............................................................................. 83 Tab 2.6. Formative Assessment Chart ................................................... 111 Tab 3. Proposal Cost Form ........................................................................................ 147 Tab 3.1. Proposal Cost Form ................................................................. 147 Tab 3.2. Proposal Cost Form Attachment: ATI Detailed Cost Proposal 149 Tab 3.3. Acknowledgement of Addenda ...............................................