recommendation for standardized test in GA?

We have to test each year in our state.

There are a couple of options. Bob Jones University has the IOWA available and a couple of other tests as well. They will register you to administer the test as long as you have a college degree. It takes 4 mornings to administer & then the booklets are turned into BJU for scoring. The other option is Christian Liberty Press. They hand out the 1970 CAT test. Anyone can administer it. If you do the online version it takes about 4 hours, does have to be done in one setting, and the scores are sent later that day.

I have used both routes and found the feed back over all to be helpful.

Some of the questions are very much twaddle, or even in accurate in science and social studies; but we have to test and overall it gives me an idea of what the schools are doing each year in math and where we are at in comparison.

I rather not test, but it has helped at moments.

I hope this helps.

We have to test yearly starting in 1st grade here in NC.  We have used the Woodcock-Johnson both years we’ve had to test and we LOVE it.  My boys love it and look forward to it, I love the discussion with the test giver afterwards.  It is gentle and nurturing and I highly recommend looking at it to see if it would fit your needs too.

We’ve used the California Achievement Test for the past few years.  You can order it at Seton Testing or take it online with immediate results at Christian Libery. 

Here in NH we can self-administer the tests, so I’ve always ordered the tests, had the kids do them here at home, and then mailed in for the results of the test.

For that age, we did the PASS as recommended above. I continued w/PASS every year until last year, I switched  to CAT (the older one) for their 5th/6th gr. testing. It was their first timed one. It went well.