Helping Student's Master the Alaska Content and Performance Standards
Alaska schools will administer the Performance Evaluation for Alaska’s Schools (PEAKS) Assessments to measure student proficiency of Alaska Content and Performance Standards. Education Galaxy’s program provides ELA, Math and Science online assessment and practice for students in grades K-8 to help build mastery towards the Alaska State Standards. Our unique online program is easy to use and enjoyable for both teachers and students. Students work on their Study Plans practicing important concepts while teachers pull formative assessment reports to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their classroom and individual students.
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Built Specifically to Alaska Content and Performance Standards
None of our content is ever simply “Aligned”. We ensure all our questions are built from the ground up to prepare students for the rigor of the Alaska Content and Performance Standards for PEAKS Assessments. Education Galaxy provides thousands of questions for you to use with online assessments and printable worksheets. Content covers math, english/language arts, and science in grades K-8.
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Personalized Student Study Plans
Every student receives their own personalized PEAKS Study Plan that allows them to see exactly how they are performing in each individual standard. Students can work self-paced, or teacher directed. Students work through their Study Plans to earn rewards and show mastery. Education Galaxy makes Alaska PEAKS prep fun and engaging!
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Our Video Alien Explanations Provide Deep Instructional Support Like Never Before
Most online programs fail at providing adequate or helpful feedback to students after they miss questions. Many programs offer text based feedback that students rarely read and quickly ignore. Our revolutionary Alien Explanations provide video explanations for every single question that is specific to that question. This provides drill-down instruction to the very basic skills the students are struggling with. With Education Galaxy, your students will quickly master concepts because their instruction is tailored to them.
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Education Galaxy is Curiously Fun
Students can’t wait to “play” Education Galaxy! We know that when students are engaged, their capacity for learning is greatly increased. Education Galaxy engages students by motivating them to perform well. We do this by celebrating their success and recognizing their achievements. When students answer correctly on their first attempt, they are rewarded with a game. This quick “brain-break” motivates your students to always try their best. Students can also earn long-term rewards by mastering concepts throughout the school year.
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Questions Built 100% to the Rigor of Alaska Content and Performance Standards
PEAKS preparation is fun and rewarding with Education Galaxy. Students can take formative online assessments that will provide immediate and specific video feedback when questions are answered incorrectly. Students must apply what they learn during the video and correct their mistake, answering the question correctly before moving on to the next question. When sessions are complete, students are given a full summary of their work and can even go back through missed questions. Standards based reporting makes it easy for educators to view individual student data and also class averages for each Alaska Content and Performance Standard.
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We Also Support Kindergarten and First Grade!
Along with wonderful solutions for grades 2-8, Education Galaxy provides amazingly fun solutions for our younger learners in kindergarten and first grade. Students are seamlessly integrated into an assessment environment with beautiful graphics, games, and fun questions. A real human voice reads all text to the students. In many cases, it is other kids reading the reading passages and questions! Your young learners will love Education Galaxy!
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Build Custom Benchmarks and Printable Worksheets
Students immediately have access to Alaska Standards formative assessments online with their personal Study Plans. Education Galaxy also allows you to easily create custom summative assessments with our huge library of content sorted by standard. Need worksheets? Use Education Galaxy to create custom worksheets with our unique Worksheet Builder.
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Comprehensive Reporting for Teachers
Alaska Teachers can easily pull different reports filtered either by student, class, grade level, subject, or school. Reports allow teachers to quickly find the specific Alaska standards that students are doing well in and areas that require more instruction. Use individual student reports to help with parent teacher conferences or student progress reports
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English and Spanish
All of our assessment items are available in both English and Spanish. Three different language modes allow you to customize the experience for each student. Choose whether to allow students to toggle back and forth between English and Spanish or to see questions in only English or only Spanish.
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Group Instruction Module
Get your entire class involved while enjoying real-time data on every question and standard for all your students. Allow your students to compete in teams or small groups. When students struggle on a question, play video Alien Explanations to provide specific instruction. Winning teams are rewarded with QUICK games after each successful question. Best game score wins! Watch live as each student answers the questions and see the results immediately to grasp class and student level comprehension of each question or standard.
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Writing Composition Practice
Assign your students writing assignments to help them practice writing literary, expository, procedural, and persuasive compositions. Here’s how it works: The teacher would select a prompt and scoring rubric (optional) to assign to students. Students would then type and submit a draft of their composition online. Then teacher reads, scores, and provides feedback to student drafts online. Next the students review feedback, edit their draft, and submit their final composition. Then the teacher will score the composition online or offline.
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Fluency Component
Skills Practice allows the student to work on fact fluency and basic skills in a fun way. Students compete in a race against other students while practicing their fluency. Our facts and fluency module allows for a break from the rigorous test prep style questions throughout the rest of Education Galaxy programs.
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Variety of Question Types Encourage Higher Order Thinking
We support many assessment options aside from multiple choice questions. Challenge your students with next level question types including drag and drop, dual-passage, multi-select, and text response.
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Test Builder
Our test builder helps teachers create their own assessments and assignments. Teachers can create and share formative assessments, spiral reviews, benchmarks, or any other custom test desired. Create quick topic-based assignments with randomized questions or choose each individual question for your custom test.
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Math & Reading Adaptive Intervention
Have students with skill gaps? LiftOff, our adaptive intervention program, is a great resource for your students needing extra assistance with their math and reading skills. Through adaptive diagnostics, we identify skill gaps in a vertical alignment and create personalized learning paths for each student. The program offers read aloud and Spanish support features. Reports provide weekly and monthly progress monitoring. Another report helps teachers to purposefully plan for ability groups.
LiftOff is a schoolwide solution, upgraded license required for access.
