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title: "Georgia Milestones End-of-Course test: United States History"
subject: social_studies
course: United States History
assessment_id: gmas_eoc_us_history
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total_points: 46
standards_count: 23
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# Georgia Milestones End-of-Course test: United States History

What the Georgia Milestones end-of-course test for United States History covers, from the state's assessment blueprint: its reporting categories and their points, the standards each category assesses, how complex the questions are meant to be, and the kinds of questions on it.

- Test: Georgia Milestones, End-of-Course test, United States History
- Total points: 46
- Standards assessed: 23

## Reporting categories

Points are the blueprint's approximate figures. Each percent is of the test's 46 points, rounded; a range such as 7–8 counts at its midpoint.

### Establishment as a World Power: 11 points, about 24% of the test

- **SSUSH15 (a, b, c)**: U.S. Involvement in WWI. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH15.md
- **SSUSH16 (a, b, c, d, e)**: Post-WWI National Identity. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH16.md
- **SSUSH17 (a, b, c)**: Great Depression Causes and Effects. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH17.md
- **SSUSH18 (a, b, c, d)**: Roosevelt's New Deal Response. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH18.md
- **SSUSH19 (a, b, c, d, e)**: World War II Overview. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH19.md

### Post–World War II to the Present: 11 points, about 24% of the test

- **SSUSH20 (a, b, c)**: Truman and Eisenhower Era Policies. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH20.md
- **SSUSH21 (a, b, c, d, e)**: Kennedy and Johnson Era Policies. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH21.md
- **SSUSH22 (a, b)**: Nixon to Carter Era Policies. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH22.md
- **SSUSH23 (a, b, c, d)**: Reagan to Obama Administrations. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH23.md

### New Republic through Reconstruction: 9 points, about 20% of the test

- **SSUSH6 (a, b, c, d, e)**: Early Presidential Challenges. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH6.md
- **SSUSH7 (a, b, c, d)**: Age of Jackson Developments. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH7.md
- **SSUSH8 (a, b, c, d, e)**: Slavery and Civil War Origins. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH8.md
- **SSUSH9 (a, b, c, d)**: Civil War Key Events. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH9.md
- **SSUSH10 (a, b, c, d, e)**: Reconstruction Era Dimensions. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH10.md

### Colonization through the Constitution: 7–8 points, about 16% of the test

- **SSUSH1 (a, b, c, d)**: 17th Century English Colonization. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH1.md
- **SSUSH2 (a, b, c, d)**: Early English Colonial Society. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH2.md
- **SSUSH3 (a, b, c)**: Causes of the Revolution. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH3.md
- **SSUSH4 (a, b, c, d, e, f)**: American Revolution Aspects. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH4.md
- **SSUSH5 (a, b, c, d, e)**: U.S. Constitutional Adoption. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH5.md

### Industrialization, Reform, & Imperialism: 7–8 points, about 16% of the test

- **SSUSH11 (a, b, c, d, e)**: Big Business Labor and Innovation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH11.md
- **SSUSH12 (a, b, c)**: Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH12.md
- **SSUSH13 (a, b, c, d)**: Progressive Era Reforms. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH13.md
- **SSUSH14 (a, b)**: America's Global Relations. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/SSUSH14.md

## Depth of Knowledge

From the blueprint: "Depth of Knowledge (DOK) is measured on a scale of 1 to 4 and refers to the level of cognitive demand (different kinds of thinking) required to complete an assessment item."

- Level 1: 2 to 7 points (5% to 15%)
- Level 2: 30 to 35 points (65% to 75%)
- Level 3: 7 to 12 points (15% to 25%)
- Level 4: not on this test

## Kinds of questions

- 1-point Selected-Response and Technology-Enhanced Items: 30 items, 30 points
- 2-point Technology-Enhanced Items: 8 items, 16 points
- Field Test Items: 4 items, 0 points (field test questions do not count toward the score)
- **Total**: 42 items, 46 points

## Achievement levels

For the subjects and grades Georgia tests, Georgia Homeroom shows what each Milestones achievement level means in practice, using the state's own descriptions. Georgia publishes these descriptions for tested content, so they are not available for every standard. On this test, 23 of the 23 standards have them; each standard's page shows them.

## How this test counts

Under Georgia State Board of Education Rule 160-4-2-.13, an End-of-Course test is the final exam for its course, and its score counts for at least 10% of the student's final grade in the course.

- The rule: https://apps.gadoe.org/sboe/SBOE%20Rules/160-4-2-.13.pdf

## Practice tests

The Georgia Department of Education's Georgia Milestones page links the state's online practice tests, Experience Online Testing Georgia.

- Experience Online Testing Georgia: https://www.gaexperienceonline.com/
- Georgia Milestones at the Georgia Department of Education: https://gadoe.org/assessment-accountability/georgia-milestones/

## More

- Every Georgia Milestones test: https://georgiahomeroom.org/milestones.md
- Esta página en español: https://georgiahomeroom.org/es/milestones/united-states-history.md
- Every standards list, by subject and grade: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/index.md

Source: Georgia Milestones Assessment Blueprint, published by the Georgia Department of Education. Georgia Homeroom is not affiliated with the Georgia Department of Education.