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Florida Science Standards Assessment
Presentation to Florida Association of Science Supervisors, May 2008
FCAT Updates
New Science Standards New Assessment for Science Florida Reads Writes Solves Inquires CD Released Tests Content Focus Report 2008 FCAT Explorer FCAT Science Lessons Learned
New Science Standards
Adopted by State Board – February 2008 K-8 grade-level standards grouped into four
Bodies of Knowledge (BOK) which are subdivided into Big Ideas
High School standards organized by Body of Knowledge
BOK: The Nature of Science, Earth and Space Science, Physical Science, Life Science
New Science Standards
Office of Mathematics and Science is developing a crosswalk to show the transition between the old and new benchmarks (should be available by summer)
Office of Mathematics and Science currently revising science course descriptions to match new standards (draft for public review will be posted to www.floridastandards.org sometime soon)
New Science Assessment Timeline
2010 – 2011: last year for FCAT Science 2010 – 2011: field test new items written to
new standards 2011- 2012: baseline (first) year of new
standards assessment grades 5, 8, and high school*
2012 – 2013: Standard Setting and reporting of achievement levels
High School End-of-Course (EOC) Exams*
At this time the Department is preparing to develop EOC for Biology (baseline 2011- 2012) and another science (baseline 2012- 2013)
Stay tuned… the Department is waiting on legislative and policy decisions
New Science Standards Assessments
Grade 5 and 8 Science Assessments will be comprehensive Grade 5 assessment will have items
representing benchmarks for grades 3-5 Grade 8 assessment will have items
representing benchmarks for grades 6 -8
New Science Standards Assessment
Benchmarks are likely to be grouped or clustered by content and designated as annually assessed or content sampled
Florida Standards Content Advisory Committee began reviewing and making recommendations for assessment of new standards in April (follow up meetings are scheduled for September 2008 and January 2009)
Florida Reads Writes Solves Inquires CD
Delivered to Districts in July Packaged and labeled for each school Contains the released performance task for
each grade and each subject Includes general information about scoring,
the FCAT rubrics, the actual test item, an example of a top-score response, anchor papers, qualification papers, and annotations (scoring notes)
Released FCAT Science Tests
2007 FCAT Science Grade 8 Test and Answer Key Answer Key has percentage of students who
answered correctly, option statistics for multiple-choice items, benchmark and content focus information, and the cognitive difficulty (cognitive complexity) for each item
Anticipate the release of 2008 FCAT Science Grade 11 test this fall
Released Student Responses for Grade 8 2007 Extended Response B131 – Golf Ball Energy from 2007 Released
FCAT Science Test currently on DOE website Scoring criteria (annotations) and student
papers Example of a top-score response Three student examples of a 4-point response Three student examples of a 3-point response Three student examples of a 2-point response Three student examples of a 1-point response Three student examples of a 0-point response
Released Student Responses for Grade 8 2007 Extended Response
Will include letter explaining intent and use of
student responses FCAT Rubric for extended response Reader Bias Item Development and Handscoring
Flowcharts To be posted to FASS website in mid June
2008 FCAT Content Focus Report
Now available on the DOE website Has the benchmarks and content focus for each item
that counted towards student scores on the 2008 FCAT
Has total points for each reporting cluster/category Identifies the benchmarks that had performance
tasks Reading, Mathematics, Writing have old to new
benchmarks
FCAT Explorer
FCAT Explorer for grades 5 and 8 are now available on DOE website
FCAT Explorer for grade 11 is expected to be available in June 2008
FCAT Science Lessons Learned
A look at student performance on FCAT Science 2003 – 2006 Purpose is to provide guidance to educators
that can be used to effect positive change and enhance program effectiveness
Available in fall 2008
FCAT Science Lessons Learned
Includes Results by Cluster Mean percent correct for each reporting cluster
for each year (2003 – 2006) Observations and information on what students
are successful are able to do and what students have the greatest difficulty doing
Sample items and performance statistics Suggestions for instruction
DOE Website
www.fldoe.org
Updates for Other Contents
Writing Multiple-choice items to be removed from test beginning
in 2008-2009 (may return at a later time)* Mathematics
Currently developing items to new standards Field testing of new standard items begins in 2009 –
2010 Grade-level assessments: 3 – 8 Comprehensive grade 10 test Algebra end-of-course exam New assessment begins in Spring 2011
Reading Currently developing items to standards adopted in
2007*
Other Assessment News
New Contract now open for review and bidding Includes item development, test administration,
scoring, and reporting Expect contract award in summer 2008
One year left in item development contract with Pearson Assessment and Information (recently acquired Harcourt) – finish development for field testing in Spring 2010
One year left in scoring and reporting contract (CTB McGraw/Hill) – finish scoring 2009 test
Contact Information
Linda Oravetz, FCAT Science Coordinator: [email protected]
Christopher Harvey, FCAT Science Specialist: [email protected]
Heather McKenzie, FCAT Mathematics/Science Specialist: [email protected]
More Contact Information
Lyla Springfield, FCAT Reading Coordinator: [email protected]
Steve Ash, FCAT Mathematics Coordinator: [email protected]
Lissa Cone, FCAT Writing Coordinator: [email protected]
Vince Verges, Executive Director Test Development Center: [email protected]