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GKIDS

Students in kindergarten are assessed throughout the school year on GKIDS, the Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills. GKIDS is an ongoing, performance based assessment, designed to assist teachers in planning instruction throughout the school year, and to serve as one measure of a student’s readiness for first grade. It provides ongoing diagnostic information about kindergarten students’ developing skills in four academic areas; English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies, and in three non-Academic domains: Personal/Social Development, Approaches to Learning, and Motor Skills. Individual Student Reports will be provided at the end of the school year, and will include English Language Arts, Math, Approaches to Learning, and Personal/Social Development.  The GKIDS Readiness Check is a new component of GKIDS that takes place during the first six weeks of school.  It is meant to assist kindergarten teachers in planning instruction and meeting the needs of individual students.  To learn more, please click on the links below.

GKIDS State Brochure  |  GKIDS Readiness Check  


IOWA

Students are assessed in the fall on the Iowa Assessments (Iowa). This is a norm-referenced assessment that measures student achievement in comparison to other students nationwide. Students in grades 3, 5, and 7 are tested in Reading, Mathematics, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.
 Fall 2014 Iowa Parent Brochure


CogAT

Students in grades 1, 3, and 7 are assessed in the fall on the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT). This test measures student performance on abilities related to success in school subjects.


Georgia Milestones

The Georgia Milestones Assessment System is a comprehensive assessment program spanning grades 3 through high school.  It is designed to provide information about how well students are mastering the state-adopted content standards in the core content areas of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Students in grade 3 through 8 will take an end-of-grade (EOG) assessment in the content areas of languages arts, mathematics, science and social studies in April.

Features of the Georgia Milestone Assessment System include:

  • open-ended (constructed-response) items in 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 language arts assessment
  • norm-referenced items in all content areas and courses, to complement the criterion-referenced information and to provide a national comparison

DOE Parent Brochure – Questions & Answers on GA Milestones Assessments