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Leila Barber
Supervisor,
Elementary & Middle School Assessment
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Deborah Marker 
Supervisor,
High School Assessment
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Deborah Marker

Dr. Holly Rutledge 
Supervisor,
Assessment & Personalized Learning
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Dr. Holly Rutledge

Julia Campbell
Assessment Secretary
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Carmelita Brunson 
HS Assessment Program Manager
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Kim Ledbetter 
ES / MS Assessment Program Manager
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Rhonda Loudermilk 
Student Growth Measure Program Manager
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770.426.3551

Jordan Johnston 
Warehouse/Testing Materials
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Julia Campbell
Assessment Secretary
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Testing Calendars

 

High School Testing

Middle School Testing

Elementary School Testing

 

Program Areas

 
Data Information
CCSD Comprehensive Accountability Test Data
 
Testing Policies
District Administrative Rule II-R Testing Programs – 5.22.15
 

CTLS Assess

Over the last decade, CCSD has developed an internal online assessment platform (CTLS Assess) designed to identify what students know. CTLS Assess provides teachers with real-time, useful determinations of student mastery which empowers teachers to make better, timely instructional decisions for students. CTLS Assess contains over 90,000 high-quality, vetted assessment items. Over 2,000,000 assessments have been delivered to Cobb students through CTLS Assess.

 

General Assessment Information

 
GKIDS

Students in kindergarten are assessed throughout the school year on GKIDS, the Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills. 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 GKIDS that takes 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  

 
READING INVENTORY (RI)/MATH INVENTORY (MI)
Cobb County School District administers the Reading Inventory (RI) and Math Inventory (MI) to all students in grades K-9 three times a year. RI and MI are research–based, adaptive diagnostics that meet each individual student where they are. RI measures reading comprehension skills and longitudinal progress from Kindergarten through college readiness. MI tracks math readiness progression from kindergarten through Algebra II.
 
IOWA
Students are assessed in the fall on the Iowa Assessments (Iowa). 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, Mathematics, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.
Fall 2014 Iowa Parent Brochure
 
CogAT
Students in grades 1, 3, and 7 are assessed in the fall on the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT). This test measures student performance on abilities related to success in school subjects.
 
GEORGIA MILESTONES
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 grade 3 through 8 will take an end-of-grade (EOG) assessment in the content areas of languages arts, mathematics, science and social studies in April. High school students will take an end-of-course (EOC) assessment for each of the four courses designated by the State Board of Education:
  • American Literature and Composition
  • Algebra I
  • Physical Science (EOC for 8th grade students only)
  • Biology
  • United States History
Middle school students who are enrolled in one or more of these courses will also take the end-of-course assessment.  The end-of-course assessments are administered at the completion of the course, regardless of the grade level.  Beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, these assessments will serve as the final exam for the course and will count as 20% of the student’s final grade. Features of the Georgia Milestone Assessment System include:
  • open-ended (constructed-response) items in language arts and mathematics (all grades and courses)
  • 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
DOE Parent Brochure – Questions & Answers on GA Milestones Assessments
 
PSAT 8/9 (formerly known as ReadiStep)
Students in eighth grade are tested in the fall on the PSAT 8/9 assessment.  PSAT 8/9 is published by College Board for middle school students to measure the skills students need to be on track for success in college and careers.  It consists of three multiple choice tests in the areas of Critical Reading, Mathematics and Writing Skills.
 
PSAT
The Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT) is published by The College Board as a tenth or eleventh grade practice instrument for students before taking the SAT in eleventh or twelfth grade. All tenth grade students take the PSAT in the fall.
 
SAT & ACT
The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the American College Testing (ACT) are offered by The College Board several times during the year. These tests are not required by the state or school system, and are not administered by Cobb schools; however, most colleges and universities use SAT and/or ACT scores in determining student admission. Most college-bound students take one or both of these tests during either their junior or senior year. Both the SAT and ACT can be taken as many times as the student wants to.