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GACE Program Admission AssessmentTest at a GlanceUpdated June 2019See the GACE Program Admission Assessment Study Companion for practicequestions and preparation resources.Assessment NameProgram AdmissionGrade LevelP–12Test CodeTest I: 210Test II: 211Test III: 212Combined Test I, II, and Test III: 710Testing TimeTest I: 85 minutesTest II: 90 minutesTest III: 100 minutesCombined Test I, II, and III: 4 hoursand 35 minutesTest DurationTest I: 2 hoursTest II: 2 hoursTest III: 2 hoursCombined Test I, II, and III: 5 hoursTest FormatComputer deliveredNumber of Selected-responseQuestionsTest I: 56Test II: 56Test III: 40Combined Test I, II, and Test III: 152Question FormatThe test consists of a variety of short-answerquestions such as selected-responsequestions, where you select one answerchoice or multiple answer choices (dependingon what the question asks for), questionswhere you enter your answer in a text box,and other types of questions. You can reviewthe possible question types in the Guide toTaking a GACE Computer-delivered Test.Number of Constructed-responseQuestionsTest III: 2Combined Test: 2Copyright 2019 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. ETS is a registered trademark ofEducational Testing Service (ETS). Georgia Assessments for the Certification of Educators, GACE, and theGACE logo are registered trademarks of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GaPSC).All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
About this AssessmentThe GACE Program Admission assessment measures the basic academic skillsin reading, writing, and mathematics needed to prepare successfully for a careerin education.This assessment includes three tests. You may take each test individually or the fullassessment in a single session. The testing time is the amount of time you will have toanswer the questions on the test. Test duration includes time for tutorials and directionalscreens that may be included in the test.The Program Admission Reading test assesses academic skills that have beenidentified as necessary for college and career readiness, in alignment with the CommonCore Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS) for Reading. In particular, there is anemphasis on skills that are critical to learning and achievement in educator preparationprograms. These skills include the ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate differenttypes of written messages. Varying in difficulty, the reading material on this test is drawnfrom a variety of subject areas and real-life situations that educated adults are likely toencounter. Each passage is followed by questions that are based on its content and thatrelate to reading skills. All questions can be answered by using the informationcontained within the passage; no question requires outside knowledge of the content.The test consists of four types of stimulus material: paired passages totaling approximately 200 words, followed by 4 to 7 questions long passages of approximately 200 words, with 4 to 7 questions short passages of approximately 100 words, with 2 or 3 questions brief statements followed by a single questionPassages are drawn from both print and electronic media, such as newspapers,magazines, journals, nonfiction books, novels, online articles, and visualrepresentations (e.g., diagrams, charts, drawings, maps, floor plans, or graphs).Questions in each of the formats may pose tasks of varying difficulty and test any of theskills identified in the content specifications.The Program Admission Mathematics test assesses academic skills that have beenidentified as necessary for college and career readiness, in alignment with the CCGPSfor Mathematics. The test will cover three major subareas: Number and Quantity Data Interpretation and Representation, Statistics, and Probability Algebra and GeometryFocus is on key concepts of mathematics and the ability to solve problems and toreason in a quantitative context. Many of the problems require the integration of multipleskills to achieve a solution.GACE Program Admission Assessment Test at a GlancePage 2 of 10
The Program Admission Writing test assesses academic skills that have beenidentified as necessary for college and career readiness, in alignment with the CCGPSfor Writing. The Writing test has three separate sections: a selected-response section containing 40 questions two essay sections that each require a response based on an essay topicThe two essays assess examinees' ability to write effectively in a limited period of time.The Argumentative essay topic invites examinees to draw from personal experience,observation, or reading to support a position with specific reasons and examples.The Informative/Explanatory essay topic asks examinees to extract information from twoprovided sources in order to identify important concerns related to an issue.The total number of questions that are scored is typically smaller than the total numberof questions on the test. Most tests that contain selected-response questions alsoinclude embedded pretest questions, which are not used in calculating your score. Byincluding pretest questions in the assessment, ETS is able to analyze actual test-takerperformance on proposed new questions and determine whether they should beincluded in future versions of the test.Content SpecificationsThis assessment is organized into content subareas. See a breakdown of the subareasfor this assessment on the following pages.GACE Program Admission Assessment Test at a GlancePage 3 of 10
Test I SubareasSubareaApprox. Percentageof TestI. Key Ideas and Details35%II. Craft, Structure, and Language Skills30%III. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas35%Test I ObjectivesSubarea I: Key Ideas and DetailsA. Main idea and primary purpose Identify accurate summaries or paraphrases of the main idea or primarypurpose of a reading selectionB. Supporting ideas Identify accurate summaries or paraphrases of the supporting ideas andspecific details in a reading selectionC. Inferences Identify inferences and implications that can reasonably be drawn from thedirectly stated content of a reading selectionSubarea II: Craft, Structure, and Language SkillsA. Attitude and tone Identify accurate descriptions of the author’s tone or attitude toward materialdiscussed in a reading selectionB. Organization and structure Identify key transition words and phrases in a reading selection and how theyare used Identify accurate descriptions of how a reading selection is organized in termsof cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution, etc. Identify the role that an idea, reference, or piece of information plays in anauthor’s discussion or argumentC. Meanings of words Identify the meanings of words as they are used in the context of a readingselectionD. Fact or opinion Determine whether information presented in a reading selection is presentedas fact or opinionGACE Program Admission Assessment Test at a GlancePage 4 of 10
Subarea III: Integration of Knowledge and IdeasA. Diverse media and formats Identify accurate interpretations of texts that include visual representationsB. Evaluation of arguments Identify the relationship among ideas presented in a reading selection Determine whether evidence strengthens, weakens, or is relevant to thearguments in a reading selection Determine the assumptions on which an argument or conclusion is based Draw conclusions from material presented in a reading selectionC. Analysis and comparison of texts Recognize or predict ideas or situations that are similar to what has beenpresented in a reading selection Apply ideas presented in a reading selection to other situations Recognize points of agreement and disagreement between two textsGACE Program Admission Assessment Test at a GlancePage 5 of 10
Test II SubareasSubareaApprox. Percentageof TestI. Number and Quantity36%II. Data Interpretation and Representation, Statistics, andProbability32%III. Algebra and Geometry32%Test II ObjectivesSubarea I: Number and QuantityA. Solve problems involving integers, decimals, and fractionsB. Solve problems involving ratios and proportionsC. Solve problems involving percentD. Solve problems involving constant rates (e.g., miles per hour, gallons per mile,cubic feet per minute)E. Demonstrate an understanding of place value, naming of decimal numbers, andordering of numbersF. Demonstrate an understanding of the properties of whole numbers (e.g., factors,multiples, even and odd numbers, prime numbers, divisibility)G. Identify counterexamples to statements using basic arithmeticH. Solve real-life problems by identifying relevant numbers, information, oroperations (including rounding)I. Solve problems involving units, including unit conversion and measurementsSubarea II: Data Interpretation and Representation, Statistics, and ProbabilityA. Work with data and data representations to solve problemsB. Solve problems involving measures of central tendency (e.g., mean, median) andspread (e.g., range, standard deviation)C. Use data from a random sample to draw inferences about characteristics of apopulationD. Identify positive and negative linear relationships in scatterplotsE. Use a linear model for a data set to make predictionsF. Differentiate between correlation and causationG. Compute simple probabilities, and use probabilities to solve problemsGACE Program Admission Assessment Test at a GlancePage 6 of 10
Subarea III: Algebra and GeometryA. Algebra Demonstrate an understanding of the properties (commutative, associative,and distributive) of the basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication,and division) without needing to know the names of the properties Demonstrate the ability to follow an arithmetic or algebraic procedure (e.g.,using a step-by-step procedure, using a simple flowchart, applying a simplerecurrence sequence) by carrying it out or analyzing it Use properties of operations to identify or generate equivalent algebraicexpressions (e.g., multiplication of whole numbers gives the same result asrepeated addition, multiplication by 0.1 gives the same result as divisionby 10) Write an equation or expression that models a real-life or mathematicalproblem Solve word problems, including problems involving linear relationships andproblems that can be represented by Venn diagrams Solve linear equations in one variable algebraically Solve simple quadratic equations (e.g., x2 49 )B. Geometry Utilize basic properties of common two-dimensional shapes to solve problems Utilize facts about angles to solve problems Utilize facts about congruency and similarity of geometric figures to solveproblems Use the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle to solve problems Use the formulas for the perimeter and area of a triangle and a rectangle andthe formula for the volume of a rectangular prism (box) to solve problemsGACE Program Admission Assessment Test at a GlancePage 7 of 10
Test III SubareasSubareaApprox. Percentageof TestI. Text Types, Purposes, and Production*60%II. Language and Research Skills for Writing40%* This section contains two essay questions.Test III ObjectivesSubarea I: Text Types, Purposes, and ProductionA. Text Production: Writing Arguments Produce an argumentative essay to support a claim using relevant andsufficient evidence Write clearly and coherently Address the assigned task appropriately for an audience of educatedadults Organize and develop ideas logically, making coherent connectionsbetween them Provide and sustain a clear focus or thesis Use supporting reasons, examples, and details to develop clearly andlogically the ideas presented Demonstrate facility in the use of language and the ability to use a varietyof sentence structures Construct effective sentences that are generally free of errors in standardwritten EnglishB. Text Production: Writing Informative/Explanatory Texts Produce an informative/explanatory essay to examine and convey complexideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection,organization, and analysis of content Write clearly and coherently Address the assigned task appropriately for an audience of educatedadults Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis Organize and develop ideas logically, making coherent connectionsbetween them Synthesize information from multiple sources on a subjectGACE Program Admission Assessment Test at a GlancePage 8 of 10
Integrate and attribute information from multiple sources on a subject,avoiding plagiarism Provide and sustain a clear focus or thesis Demonstrate facility in the use of language and the ability to use a varietyof sentence structuresC. Text Production: Revision Develop and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing Recognize how a passage can be strengthened through editingand revision Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions indifferent contexts and to make effective choices for meaning or style Choose words and phrases for effect Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely Maintain consistency in style and toneSubarea II: Language and Research Skills for WritingA. Language Skills Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammarand usage Grammatical Relationships Recognize and correct errors in the use of adjectives and adverbs errors in noun-noun agreement errors in pronoun-antecedent agreement errors in pronoun case errors in the use of intensive pronouns errors in pronoun number and person vague pronouns errors in subject-verb agreement inappropriate shifts in verb tense Structural Relationships Recognize and correct errors in the placement of phrases and clauses within a sentence misplaced and dangling modifiers errors in the use of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions fragments and run-onsGACE Program Admission Assessment Test at a GlancePage 9 of 10
errors in the use of correlative conjunctions errors in parallel structure Word Choice Recognize and correct errors in the use of idiomatic expressions errors in the use of frequently confused words wrong word use redundancy No Error Recognize sentences free of errors in the conventions of standard Englishgrammar and usage Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalizationand punctuation Mechanics Recognize and correct errors in capitalization errors in punctuationo commas (e.g., the use of a comma to separate an introductoryelement from the rest of the sentence)o semicolons(e.g., the use of a semicolon [and perhaps aconjunctive adverb] to link two or more closely relatedindependent clauses)o apostrophes (e.g., the use of an apostrophe to form contractionsand frequently occurring possessives) No Error Recognize sentences free of errors in the conventions of standard Englishcapitalization and punctuationB. Research Skills Recognize and apply appropriate research skills and strategies Assess the credibility and relevance of sources Recognize the different elements of a citation Recognize effective research strategies appropriate to a particularresearch task Recognize information relevant to a particular research taskGACE Program Admission Assessment Test at a GlancePage 10 of 10
Program Admission Assessment Study Companion for practice . Grade Level P-12 . Test Code Test I: 210 Test II: 211 Test III: 212 Combined Test I, II, and Test III: 710 . Testing Time Test I: 85 minutes Test II: 90 minutes Test III: 100 minutes . avoiding plagiarism
