Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS)
Students in Kindergarten are assessed throughout the school year on GKIDS. GKIDS is an ongoing, performance based assessment, designed to assist teachers in planning instruction throughout the school year, and to serve as one measure of a student's readiness for first grade. It provides ongoing diagnostic information about kindergarten students' developing skills in four academic areas: English Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies, and in three non-academic domains: Personal/Social Development, Approaches to Learning, and Motor Skills. Individual student reports will be provided at the end of the school year, and will include English Language Arts, Math, Approaches to Learning, and Personal/Social Development. The GKIDS Readiness Check is a new component of GKIS that tasks place during the first six weeks of school. It is meant to assist Kindergarten teachers in planning instruction and meeting the needs of individual students. To learn more, please click on the links below:
GKIDS State Brochure | GKIDS Readiness Check
IOWA Assesment
Students are assessed in the fall on the IOWA Assessments. This is a norm-referenced assessment that measures student achievement in comparison to other students nationwide. Students in grades 3, 5, and 7 are tested in Reading, Math, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. The IOWA is the primary assessment used to determine gifted placement.
Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT)
Students in grades 1, 3 and 7 are assessed in the fall on the CogAT. This test measures student performance on abilities related to success in school subjects. The CogAT is an assessment used by the district to determine gifted placement.
Georgia Milestones (also referred to as End of Grades Assessment or EOG)
The Georgia Milestones Assessment System is a comprehensive assessment program spanning grades 3 through high school. It is designed to provide information about how well students are mastering the state-adopted content standards in the core content areas of Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. Students in grades 3 and 4 take Language Arts and Mathematics. Students in grade 5 take Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science.
Features of the Georgia Milestone Assessment include:
- open-ended (constructed response) items
- a writing component (in response to passages read by students) at every grade level and course within the language arts assessment
- norm-referenced items in all content areas and courses, to complement the criterion-referenced information and to provide a national comparison
