Computer Glitch Delays Milestones Test For Some Ga. Students
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Public school students in grades 3-12 took new state tests this spring.
The new testing system, called Georgia Milestones, is meant to be demanding. It requires students to explain their answers, and it’s aligned to the more rigorous Common Core standards. But some students who took the test online hit an additional hurdle.
“We had lags in the items loading on student machines in some areas,” says Melissa Fincher, Georgia’s deputy superintendent for assessment and accountability. “And even in the same building, students in one classroom could be working fine through their assessment, yet in another classroom, that wasn’t necessarily the case.”
Fincher says roughly 30 percent of students took online tests, but the exact number affected by the glitch is unknown.
But, students hoping for a free pass were out of luck. Fincher says the computers saved their tests, and everyone was able to finish.
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