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Why the Change?To ensure consistent
expectations and rigor so our students can compete with peers nationally (NAEP, PSAT, SAT, ACT),
indicator of student preparedness for the next level, grade, course, or college/career, and
indicator of student achievement across grades/courses within Cobb.
What to Expect?Grades 3-8
End of Grade (EOG) in ELA, Math, Sci, SS
CRCT or CRCT-M no longer administered
GA Milestones -Breakdown
ELA3
sectionsLang arts, reading, writing
60-70 min.
Writing 70-90 min.
MATH
2 sections
60-80 min.
What to Expect?
All special education students with read-to accommodations will take online
Paper-pencil or online tests
What to Expect?Types of Test Items
Items that reflect content standards
Each grade and course
Criterion-
referenced
Items that allow for national comparison of our students Do not necessarily reflect the GA content standards – will not count in student score
Each grade and course
Norm-referenc
ed
What to Expect?Types of Test Questions
• “multiple choice”Selected- response
• generated by student as opposed to selecting a responseConstructe
d-response
• Require explanations of reasoning• Allow for multiple correct answers• Examples: writing prompts or
performance tasks
Extended-response
Approximately50-60 questionsper subject
ELA – What are we doing to prepare students?Students will be familiar with much of the test. For example:
Read an article about the history of basketball, then answer this question:
ELA- What are we doing to prepare students?Example of constructed response prompt:
What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage? Use details from the passage to support your answer.
Example of student answer (basketball article):The author’s purpose is to explain the history of
basketball. The passage starts out by telling who invented basketball and why he did it. Then it talks about how the game changed and developed over the years. Finally, it describes how it became a sport played all over the world.
Math – Which Calculator?6th 7th 8th
Basic 4-FunctionCan include %
and √
Scientific Calculator
No memory function
Science - What are we doing to prepare students?
STEM
Problem Based Learning
Warm-ups/Assessments with Milestone type questions
Science- What are we doing to prepare students?
7th Grade: Natural disasters can cause short- and long-term changes in environmental conditions. These changes can affect individual plants and animals, as well as an entire species. Which of these would MOST LIKELY lead to the extinction of a species?
A. A tsunami passes over a coral reef where a threatened fish species lives.
B. A wildfire moves through the last remaining habitat of an endangered plant species.
C. A hurricane moves through a nature preserve where a population of threatened birds is nesting.
D. An earthquake disturbs a wilderness area where the last known population of an endangered mammal lives.
Social Studies – What are we doing to prepare students?Will require understanding of the past and its
influence on the present and future
Four domains: History (47%) Geography (12%) Government and Civics (25%) Economics (16%)
• Selected-response items only.
Social Studies – What are we doing to prepare students?
Which statement about early Georgia settlers is BEST supported by the information in the quotation?
A They believed they were dependent on importing goods from England.
B They thought they could benefit from the area's warm climate and fertile soil.
C They thought they could trade goods with many countries in Asia and the Middle East.
D They believed the area's resources would allow them to specialize in limited agricultural products.
"The Colony of Georgia lying about the same latitude with part of China, Persia,Palestine, and the Madeiras, it is highly probable that when hereafter it shall bewell peopled and rightly cultivated, England may be supplied from thence with raw Silk, Wine, Oil, Dyes, [Medicines], and many other materials for manufactures, which she is obliged to purchase from Southern countries."—James Oglethorpe, 1733
What was learned from pilot school testing?
Students . . . Responded with “dnk” (do not know).
Did not show work, cite evidence, or support answer or claim with rationale.
Did not read carefully and answer all parts.
What Can You Do to Prepare Your Son/Daughter?
http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Assessment/Pages/Georgia-Milestones-Assessment-System.aspx
Last Words April 15-24 (5 actual days of testing)High school courses with additional end-of-
course test – given in May:Coordinate algebraCoordinate algebra and geometryPhysical science
Standard setting –scores will be released in September
The ratings to be used have not been determined- meets, exceeds etc.
No retest