The Georgia Milestones represent a significant change and, importantly – an opportunity for our state. This opportunity allows us to recalibrate, as a state, and refocus on teaching and learning as a primary emphasis with assessment and accountability serving a supporting role. 

 

Features include:

•  inclusion of constructed-response items in ELA and mathematics, in addition to selected-response items 

•  inclusion of a writing component (in response to text) at every grade level and course within the ELA assessment;

•  inclusion of norm-referenced items in every grade and content area 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-pencil back-up until transition is completed. 

 

Blended: Criterion-Referenced and Norm-Referenced Georgia Milestones will provide:

• criterion-referenced performance information in the form of four performance levels, depicting students’ mastery of state standards

•  norm-referenced performance information in the form of national percentiles, depicting how students’ achievement compares to peers nationally 

 

Selected-Response [aka, multiple-choice]

• all content areas

• evidence-based selected response in ELA

• •  Constructed-Response

•  ELA and mathematics

• •  Extended-Response

• ELA and mathematics

• •  Technology Enhanced