What does FCAT test stand for?

Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) is a test to determine whether students are learning the Sunshine State Standards. 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.

How long is the FCAT test?

Grade 10 FCAT 2.0 Reading – Computer-based Grade 10 FCAT 2.0 Reading will be administered in two 70-minute sessions over two days.

What was the test before FCAT?

Even before the FCAT, Florida had a statewide assessment system. The state was the first in the nation to require a test for high school graduation in 1977. During that decade, it introduced testing for third, fifth, eighth and 11th grades.

What is a good FCAT score?

The passing score on FCAT 2.0 Reading, Mathematics and Science and each Florida EOC Assessment is the minimum score in Achievement Level 3, and the passing score on FCAT 2.0 Writing is a score point of 3.5.

Does the FCAT still exist?

FCAT Science is administered annually to public school students in the fifth, eighth, and eleventh grades. As of the 2014-2015 school year, many grades do not take the FCAT, and it has now been formally replaced with the Florida Standards Assessments (FSA).

Do kids still take FCAT?

What replaced the FCAT?

This spring, Florida students will take a brand new test tied to the state’s new math, reading and writing standards. This is the test that replaces the FCAT. It’s known as the Florida Standards Assessment, and it’ll be online. Here’s what you you wanted to know — and what it’ll mean for students and schools.

What is the highest FCAT score?

The FCAT 2.0 Reading developmental score scale ranges from 140 to 302 across grades 3 through 10, and the FCAT 2.0 Mathematics developmental score scale ranges from 140 to 298 across grades 3 through 8. FCAT 2.0 Science is reported on a score scale which ranges from 140 to 260 for both grades 5 and 8.

What did they replace FCAT with?

the Florida Standards Assessment
This spring, Florida students will take a brand new test tied to the state’s new math, reading and writing standards. This is the test that replaces the FCAT. It’s known as the Florida Standards Assessment, and it’ll be online. What’s on the test won’t be the only thing different about the exam.

Is a 2 failing the FSA?

The order allows third grade students to be promoted to fourth grade even if they don’t achieve a level 2 or better on the English Language Arts FSA, as long as the district can prove the student is performing at that level.