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The Georgia Assessments for the Certification of Educators, also known as GACE (abbreviated) is a standardized test all teachers in the US state of Georgia must pass in order to teach at public schools and gain a credential.
Teachers who confessed to cheating blamed "inordinate pressure" to meet targets set by the district and said they faced severe consequences such as a negative evaluation or termination if they didn't. [7] Prior to the scandal, the APS had been lauded for making significant gains in standardized test scores.
[11] These standards are put in place, as stated below, to help students, teachers, parents, etc. to know what is expected of a certain child at a certain age to know by the end of a unit, term, school year, etc. [12] Standards are normally published and freely available to parents and taxpayers as well as professional educators and textbook ...
The purpose of standards-based assessment [5] is to connect evidence of learning to learning outcomes (the standards). When standards are explicit and clear, the learner becomes aware of their achievement with reference to the standards, and the teacher may use assessment data to give meaningful feedback to students about this progress.
The 2023-24 Georgia Milestones test results released last month showed English/language arts proficiency declined by one point among the state’s third graders.
In July 2011, an investigation uncovered that 178 teachers from the Atlanta area had been found to be cheating from as early as 2001 by falsifying test results. [5] Aside from the teachers, 38 principals were linked to the scandal either by directly participating in the changing of wrong answers or allowing the changes to be made when they knew, or had the responsibility to know, what was ...
Georgia House of Representatives overwhelmingly passes a $36.1B fiscal 2025 state budget with generous raises for teachers and state employees
Prekindergarten teachers also would get a $2,500 raise. State and university employees also would get a 4% pay increase, up to $70,000 in salary. The typical state employee makes $50,400.