Assessments
This is the comprehensive assessment system spanning grades 3 through high school in Georgia.
What is the Georgia Milestones
An on-screen tool that can perform the four arithmetic functions. The scientific version can perform square root, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, and factorial functions as well.
What is the Calculator?
Administration in a group of less students than a standard classroom; typically less than 15 students.
What is "Small Group"
The act of recording student responses by a Test Examiner, exactly as they were completed by a student, to an online form as necessitated by an accommodation.
What is "Transcribe"?
This form is signed by the School Test Coordinator and the head of your school and attests that all procedures were properly followed for a specific testing administration.
What is the "Principal's Certification"?
This is a standards-based, criterion-referenced English language proficiency test designed to measure English learners’ social and academic proficiency in English.
What is WIDA ACCESS?
What is "Cross-Off"?
This type of assessment must be ordered in advance and consists of a paper book with raised bumps used for visually impaired students.
What is Braille?
This is a designation indicating that a testing anomaly that warrants reporting and coding of the anomaly and nullifying student scores occurred.
What is an "Invalidation"?
This form is completed to certify that your school received paper copies of an assessment, as well as confirms where you are storing and who has access.
What is the "Materials Verification Form"?
This is an alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards required for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities
What is GAA (Georgia Alternate Assessment)?
The student uses this feature to mark questions for reviewing later.
What is "Flag Question"
Students who qualify for this accommodation are allowed more time to complete assessments.
What is "Extended Time"?
This is a unique 10-digit number assigned to each student in the state to link the student’s performance on various tests.
What is a GTID (Georgia Testing Identifier)?
This form verifies that a person that administered a test followed all directions and procedures as printed in the manual.
What is the "Examiner's Checklist"?
This is an individually administered test for English Learners in grades K through 12 with the most significant cognitive disabilities.
What is Alternate ACCESS?
The student can choose the color and size for this tool.
What is the Mouse Pointer?
Students who qualify for this accommodation have a live person that reads directions, items, and sometimes passages to them on a one-on-one administration.
What is "Human Reader"?
This is what "FERPA" stands for.
What is "The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act"
This form is used when a test examiner must transcribe or record student responses into an answer booklet or an online platform.
What is the "Validation Form for Recording Student Responses"?
This is a congressionally mandated project of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, commonly known as "The Nation's Report Card".
What is NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
The student can use this tool to focus on text or part of a test item.
What is the Masking Tool?
Students who qualify for this accommodation have their answers written down or recorded by the test administrator.
What is "Scribe"?
This term refers to results, data, or findings of summary or aggregated data that may not be shared publicly until a certain date or event.
What is "Embargoed"?
This form acknowledges that participants were present to learn how to administer a test.
What is the "Pre-Administration Training Form"?