END OF GRADE ASSESSMENT FOR GRADES 3-5​

  INTRODUCTION TO THE ASSESSMENT

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Georgia Milestones Assessment System is a comprehensive summative assessment program and represents a single system of summative assessments that span all three levels of the state's educational system – elementary, middle, and high school.  The system is designed to send consistent signals about students' preparedness for the next level, be it the next grade, course, or endeavor, such as entering college or beginning a career after leaving the K-12 educational system.
What is the purpose of Georgia Milestones?
  • The Georgia Milestones Assessment System is designed to provide information about how well students are mastering the state-adopted content standards in the core content areas of English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.  
  • Importantly, Georgia Milestones is designed to provide students with critical information about their own achievement and their readiness for their next level of learning – be it the next grade, the next course, or the next endeavor (college or career).  
  • Informing parents, educators, and the public about how well students are learning important content is an essential aspect of any educational assessment and accountability system.  Parents, the public, and policy makers, including local school districts and boards of education, can use the results as a barometer of the quality of educational opportunity provided throughout the state of Georgia.  
  • As such, Georgia Milestones serves as a key component of the state's accountability system – the College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI).  

What is assessed?
  • Georgia Milestones measures how well students have learned the knowledge and skills outlined in the state-adopted content standards in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. 
  • It is a single assessment system that consists of end-of-grade measures in English language arts and mathematics in grades 3-8, end-of-grade measures in science in grades 5 and 8, end-of-grade measure in social studies in grade 8, and end-of-course measures for specified high school courses.

Georgia Milestones is administered primarily computers and includes these features:
  • ​Technology-enhanced items in all grades and courses,
  • ​​Open-ended (constructed response) items in English language arts in all grades and courses,
  • A writing component (in response to passages read by students) at every grade level and course within the English language arts assessment,
  • A reported Lexile score based on the English language arts assessment in all grades and courses, and
  • ​Estimated norm-referenced performance ranges for all grades and courses.                                                            Source: GaDOE​
TIPS TO HELP PREPARE
& ENABLE YOUR STUDENTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL ON TESTING DAYS
  • ​Get a good night’s sleep before each testing day.
    ​ Try to avoid late sports practices or games, late night TV, and late night electronics.
    When students are rested they are able to concentrate and do their best on the test.
  • Eat a light, nutritious breakfast each morning before testing. 
    ​Food is the fuel that powers the body and the brain.
    Fruits, carbohydrates (such as breads) and proteins (such as eggs) work best to give students testing energy.
  • Be in school each day and on time.
    Schedule any doctor or dentist appointments outside of the testing schedule.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
​ Resource & STUDY ​GuideS
These Study/Resource Guides are intended to serve as informative materials for parents and students. They contain practice questions and learning activities for each content area. The standards identified in the Study/Resource Guides address a sampling of the state-mandated content standards. ​

EXPERIENCE ONLINE TESTING GA

​Although some Georgia elementary schools may not be participating in an online administration of the GMAS, this practice site​ is available to provide training methods for the online administration as well as some sample questions.
Test Practice Directions
  1. Click on the white "Online Tools" words beneath the GREEN "End of Grade."
  2. Click on the white words "EOG Test Practice" on the top left corner.
  3. Click on Standard Online tools
  4. Click on Grades 3-5
  5. Sign in with the username and password they give you on the screen
  6. Click the Continue button and work your way through the practice area. ​​​
3 AREAS OF ​EXPERIENCE ONLINE TESTING
Documentation:
This section provides written directions for the Test Practice area.
Tutorial: 
​ A short video provides students with directions for getting into the practice test and how to use the tool buttons within the test.
Test Practice:
This will take you to the actual Test Practice Application. It is highly recommended that users view the Tutorial video first.
The Test Practice is available daily from 7 AM to 10 PM Eastern time. Note that Google Chrome is the only supported browser for this public version of the DRC INSIGHT test engine. If you are using a browser other than Google Chrome, copy the link below into Google Chrome.
https://wbte.drcedirect.com/GA/portals/ga
Source: Experience Online Testing Georgia

​​Additional Practice ​Tests & Resources


The sites and links below are not directly related to the Georgia Milestones Assessment System, but questions featured here are relatively similar to questions on the GMAS.
NOTE: While several of these resources are hosted by non-commercial providers, others are free materials available at sites which may contain promotional content and/or links to other commercial sites.  Inclusion of these free resources is not an endorsement of any company or product, and I receive no compensation for listing any resources in this collection of free practice items used to enrich academic skills and increase familiarity with GMAS question styles.
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The EffortlessMath pages linked below offer printable worksheets as well as online practice tests and skill-specific exercises.
Use the Grade Level and Format filters on the left side of the page to locate reading comprehension exercises.
Questions of the Day from USA TestPrep have been discontinued by the vendor, so I can no longer offer the Daily Practice page.
Visits since February 3, 2018
Last site update: March 2022
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​NOTICE: Please do not reproduce any text that cannot be found on the GADOE website or original graphics without providing an acknowledgment of or link to this page.  Thank you.