• Georgia Milestones Assessment System
  • EOC  - End of Course Assessments - Grades 9-12 (December/May)
    • Tested courses:  American Literature & Composition; Algebra Connections and Concepts; Biology; United States History.
  • EOG  - End of Grade Assessments - Grades 3-8 (April)
    • ELA(Reading, Language and Writing) and Math - grades 3-8
    • Science- 5th and 8th Grades Only
    • Social Studies - 8th Grade Only
       

The Georgia Milestones Assessment System (Georgia Milestones) is a comprehensive summative assessment pro​gram spanning grades 3 through high school.  Georgia Milestones measures how well students have learned the knowledge and skills outlined in the state-adopted content standards in English Language Arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.  Students in grades 3 through 8 take an end-of-grade assessment in English Language Arts and mathematics while students in grades 5 and 8 are also assessed in science and social studies. High school students take an end-of-course assessment for each of the ten courses designated by the State Board of Education.

Features the Georgia Milestone Assessment System include:

• open-ended (constructed-response) items in English Language Arts and mathematics (all grades and courses);
• a writing component (in response to passages read by students) at every grade level and course within the English Language Arts assessment;
• norm-referenced items in all content areas and courses, to complement the criterion-referenced information and to provide a national comparison; and
• transition to online administration over time, with online administration considered the primary mode of administration and paper-penc​il as back-up until the transition is complete.

(Taken from the Georgia Department of Education)

• EOC  - End of Course Assessments - Grades 9-12 (December/May)
  • Tested courses:  American Literature & Composition; Algebra Concepts and Connections;  Biology;  United States History
  • EOG  - End of Grade Assessments - Grades 3-8 (April)
    • ELA(Reading, Language and Writing) and Math - grades 3-8
    • Science -5th and 8th Grades Only
    • Social Studies -8th Grade Only

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  Links

• EOC Student/Parent Study Guides

• EOG Student/Parent Study Guides

• How to Better Read your Child's EOG Report

      GKIDS PARENT WEBSITE                   GKIDS READINESS CHECK      

The Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS) is a year-long, performance-based assessment aligned to the state mandated content standards. The goal of the assessment program is to provide teachers with information about the level of instructional support needed by individual students entering kindergarten and first grade. GKIDS will allow teachers to assess student performance during instruction, record student performance in an on-line database, and generate reports for instructional planning, progress reports, report cards, SST, and/or parent conferences. Throughout the year, teachers may assess students and record GKIDS data based on their system’s curriculum map or report card schedule. At the end of the year, summary reports and individual student reports will be generated based on the data the teacher has entered throughout the year.

DCBOE GKIDS Presentation

     ACCESS Resources           GA WIDA Contact Information          WIDA Consortium

ACCESS for ELLs is administered, annually, to all English learners in Georgia. ACCESS for ELLs is a standards-based, criterion referenced English language proficiency test designed to measure English learners’ social and academic proficiency in English. It assesses social and instructional English as well as the language associated with language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies within the school context across the four language domains. ACCESS for ELLs meets the federal requirements that mandates require states to evaluate EL students in grades K through 12 on their progress in learning to speak English.

The Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA) is a key component of the Georgia Student Assessment Program. An essential tenet of both the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), is the fact that states must ensure that all students, including students with significant cognitive disabilities, have access to a general curriculum that encompasses challenging academic standards. States must also ensure that all students are assessed for their progress toward meeting academic standards.

The GAA is a portfolio of student work that enables the demonstration of achievement and progress relative to selected skills that are aligned to the Georgia curriculum. The portfolio is used to capture student learning and achievement/progress in four content areas: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This assessment program promotes a vision of enhancing capacities and integrated life opportunities for students who experience significant cognitive disabilities. Committees of Georgia educators developed the requirements of the portfolio system including the number of required pieces of evidence of student performance of tasks aligned to content standards (i.e., student work samples), types of evidence, and the parameters/timing of the collection of student work samples.

Georgia Department of Education
Georgia Standards.org
 

What is the Georgia Student Growth Model?

The Georgia Student Growth Model (GSGM) is an exciting initiative designed to provide students, parents, educators, and the public with important information on student progress. Academic achievement only tells part of the story. The addition of student growth tells a more complete story about the academic performance of students. Now we not only know where students ended up, but we also know how much progress they made to get there.?

The Georgia Student Growth Model  is designed to provide students, parents, educators, and the public with important information on student progress. Academic achievement only tells part of the story. The addition of student growth tells a more complete story of  academic performance  of students. Data will show us not only where students end up, but how much progress they made to get there. 

For additional information on the Georgia Student Growth Model, click the link below:

GADOE:  Georgia Student Growth Model?

EXPERINENCE ONLINE TESTING GEORGIA

The new Experience Online Testing Georgia website is available with a demonstration test for each of three grade bands – grades 3-5, grades 6-8, and high school – with sample items from each content area.  The primary purpose of this website is to provide exposure to the online platform that students will utilize when taking the Georgia Milestones tests.

Using a Chrome browser only, enter the following link to access the site:  http://www.gaexperienceonline.com/