Testing a passing score--which is a level 2 out of on the Math and Reading section of the FCAT was formerly a criteria for eight grade advancement. The FCAT is no longer used for advancement in eight grade. However, the scores are used to decide which classes a student will take in the ninth grade. These sub tests are for placement also; they are not used to determine grade advancement. Whatever happened to teaching students so that they actually learn something? There is WAY too much focus on preparing students to pass a standardized test.
Lowering standards when things get tougher is definitely not the answer. This is, of course, only my opinion. I feel so sorry for the teachers. This is not their fault it is higher than them. They can only do so much the fault should be to who is in charge of our schools that person should not be to scared to stand up for our children and let everyone know what the real problem was.
We spent the entire year teaching according to last years rubric because the state failed to provide us with the new rubric — the one that was used to score the writing test this year. This rubric has yet to be seen by the schools and teachers who are responsible for properly preparing the students. Imagine this scenario. Some went to bed late and are tired or a situation in the home nobody knows about is causing their mind to wander.
Some are happy and ready to learn something new ,some would rather be somewhere else. Who really knows what is going on in their minds? Your task is to teach a subject and have them all grasp the material at a passing pretty much same level. Most of you will never know how challenging this is. Yet it happens everyday in every classroom in the State.
The way I see it all school is anymore, is just one nine month long study group to pass FCAT so the schools do not get penalized for funding. And we wonder what is happening to our schools. In 10 years there will be no public schools, all schools will be private or you home school, period. It is just as much the parents responsibility to teach and help the children as the teachers. The teacher can only do so much when they have students at different levels of learning, but most parents could help with what the teacher sends home for homework.
As an educator we have fussed about this for years telling the DOE how can you grade writing only on content. Now they are counting it all. So, for an 8th grader, they have written for 8 years and not once has anything but content been graded but BOOM this year it is all graded. So, so unfair. I wish our great house, senate, and governor to take a 45 minute writing test with a prompt given to them without notice……along with grammar, spelling, and punctuation counting!!!!!
Wonder how well they would do? Not every student can write a perfect essay on a difficult topic such as the one posted this year. But they set the FCAT standards way to high and expect to have higher succession rates on the test. Considering the drop from 81 percent making 4 or above last year and 27 percent making 4 or above this year, that would be true only if the vast majority of fourth grade students were ESE and if none of those ESE students could pass the writing test.
I just need to add that all of this crazy testing is doing nothing more that stressing our kids, teachers, and principals. Just to name a few test our kids take during the year. Also the process it takes to get kids that are performing low help, takes a whole year. Then the child must be retained. That process will put you in the grave a few years sooner. All this testing and paperwork that has to be done, means our teachers have very little time to TEACH.
Teachers have become secretaries! The FCAT is given at least twice a year, so students who do not pass the test in the tenth grade can take it again. If the student cannot pass the FCAT, he graduates with a certificate. In spring , it was replaced by the Florida Standards Assessments FSA in English language arts and mathematics to measure student achievement of the Florida Standards.
The FCAT 2. This is the test that replaces the FCAT. Students who entered grade 9 during the school year must earn a or higher, and students who entered grade 9 during the school year and thereafter must earn a or higher. If a student completes the minimum number of credits for high school graduation , but does not pass the FCAT , he or she may still be allowed to graduate with a certificate of completion. Beside above, what is the purpose of the FCAT? The questions on the test are written for each grade level to determine whether students mastered the Sunshine State Standards in reading, math, writing, and science.
The purpose of the FCAT is to make sure that the students are learning the basic skills they need to be successful in life. The FCAT 2. FCAT 2. The FCAT is given at least twice a year, so students who do not pass the test in the tenth grade can take it again. If the student cannot pass the FCAT , he graduates with a certificate. Can I go to college if I didn t graduate high school?
If you do not finish high school, head straight for college.
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