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Assessment Types

The Georgia Student Assessment Program includes formative and summative criterion-referenced assessments for students in kindergarten through high school. ​​Several Georgia assessments are developed and customized by the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE), in partnership with a test development vendor and Georgia educators. These custom assessments are aligned to Georgia’s state content standards and expectations for student performance. While each of these assessments is unique in some ways, they all follow a similar development process.

State Assessments

  • Georgia Milestone End-of-Grade
  • Georgia Milestone End-of-Course
  • Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA)
  • ACCESS/Alternate ACCESS for ELLs
  • GKIDS (Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills)

National Assessments

  • CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test)
  • IOWA Assessment
  • NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
  • PSAT 8/9
  • PSAT/NMSQT
  • SAT School Day
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • International Baccalaureate (IB)
  • CTAE End-of-Pathway

District Assessments

  • MAP Growth
  • Amira Learning
  • Benchmarks

Formative Assessments

  • Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS 2.0)

District Interim Assessments for Progress Monitoring

  • District Benchmarks
  • NWEA MAP Growth Assessments

Summative assessments

  • Georgia Milestone End-of-Grade (EOG) and End-of-Course (EOC)
  • Georgia Alternate Assessments (GAA)
  • WIDA ACCESS/Alternate ACCESS for ELLs.
  • National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)

Georgia also participates in the National Assessment of Education Progress in grades 4, 8, and 12. The Dekalb County School District (DCSD) offers the Benchmark assessments MAP Growth assessments to measure student progress toward mastering specific grade-based standards over time. MAP scores are also used to determine gifted eligibility in the DCSD.

Both state and federal law requires public schools to annually assess all enrolled students. In Georgia, the Georgia Milestones Assessments fulfill this mandate for students enrolled in grades 3-8 and high school. As a public school district, we are required to provide all students the assessments mandated by the state of Georgia. (O.C.G.A. 20-2-281).