Commissioner Pam Stewart told the Board of Education that results from this year’s Florida Standards Assessment will not be available until December. She outlined the steps that have to occur before scores are ready. First, the Florida Department of Education will conduct its regularly scheduled validity study. Then, an independent study will be done as required by the testing law that Governor Scott signed Tuesday. That study is required to be completed by September 1st.
After the results arrive, the department must then set the cut scores for each test. That process starts with hundreds of Florida educators, moving next to reactor panels, lawmakers,public input and ultimately the State Board of Education.
Schools will be unable to use the data from these scores in time for retention and remediation decisions for next school year. Click here to email Governor Scott and ask that he issue an executive order directing the Department of Education to use this year’s FSA scores as a baseline only.
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