Georgia Milestones Assessment

Overview

Overview

Spanish

The Georgia Department of Education has released the following video introducing Georgia Milestones Assessment System:

Instructional Resources

Instructional Resources

The following links represent instructional resources that support thinking skills and helping students to construct responses. Additionally, included are links to information related to formative assessment items.

Summary of Instructional Resources: English | Amharic | Arabic | Bengali | Chinese | French | Nepali | Somali | Spanish | Vietnamese |

Georgia Milestones

Georgia Milestones Assessment System
Georgia Milestones End of Course Assessment Guides
Georgia Milestones End of Grade Assessment Guides
DeKalb County Schools Parent Presentation (09/20/14)
2^nd Semester Georgia Milestones Presentation Schedule

Constructed Response & Thinking Skills

Formative Assessment

Georgia Department of Educations’s Formative Item Bank – Online Assessment
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)

ELA
Math
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARRC)
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

Additional Resources (Sample Questions)

Lexile Bands & Stretch Bands

Lexile Bands & Stretch Bands

Learn more about Lexile Measures or visit your school’s Librarian-Media Specialist.

To promote student literacy gains, parents should encourage students to not only read texts within the appropriate grade-level Lexile band but to also challenge themselves by reading texts at a higher complexity level or within the stretch Lexile bands.

* CCR=College and Career Ready
* Grade Bands reflect the 2012 Revised Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards for English Languages, NGA and CCSSO.

* The Lexile information is referenced in the Georgia Department of Education 2014-2015 Assessment Manual.