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This is the comprehensive assessment system spanning grades 3 through high school in Georgia.

What is the Georgia Milestones

100

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?

100

Administration in a group of less students than a standard classroom; typically less than 15 students.

What is "Small Group"

100

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"?

100

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"?

200

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?

200
The student uses this feature to eliminate those answer choices that do not appear correct to the student.

What is "Cross-Off"?

200

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?

200

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"?

300

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)?

300

The student uses this feature to mark questions for reviewing later.

What is "Flag Question"

300

Students who qualify for this accommodation are allowed more time to complete assessments.

What is "Extended Time"?

300

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)?

400

This is an individually administered test for English Learners in grades K through 12 with the most significant cognitive disabilities.

What is Alternate ACCESS?

400

The student can choose the color and size for this tool.

What is the Mouse Pointer?

400

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"?

400

This is what "FERPA" stands for.

What is "The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act"

500

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)

500

The student can use this tool to focus on text or part of a test item.

What is the Masking Tool?

500

Students who qualify for this accommodation have their answers written down or recorded by the test administrator.

What is "Scribe"?

500

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"?