Ever since Gov. Jeb Bush instituted the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, in the 1990s, I cheered every time the state of Florida changed its testing program. This time has gotta be ...

Ever since Gov. Jeb Bush instituted the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, in the 1990s, I cheered every time the state of Florida changed its testing program. This time has gotta be ...

Torrie Kearney is stressed out. No, really. The 8th grader at Sanderlin IB World School in south St. Petersburg is "getting kind of nervous" about her upcoming Florida Standards Assessments, an ...

No one — educators, parents and even lawmakers — will dispute the spring testing season for Florida students was fraught with pitfalls. Login problems, unsaved answers, being kicked off the web-based ...

Nearly 15 percent of Florida students who took state tests online last year reported they had computer problems while testing, according to survey questions they answered once they’d finished. The ...

Florida’s new standardized test is a valid, but its debut this spring was “problematic” and schools should not make “critical decisions” about students based solely on results of its computer-based ...

Here’s an addition problem for you. Start with this statement in an executive summary prepared by consultants who evaluated the new Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) test: “The precise magnitude of ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The FSA's integrated approach to stress testing consists of three main ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With concerns growing among students, teachers, and parents, Florida education officials are giving school districts an extra two weeks to administer the Florida Standards ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — This will be the last school year that Florida’s students take the Florida Standards Assessments (FSA), Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday. DeSantis held a news conference ...

The FSA has today invited comments from firms on what constitutes good practice in the use of stress testing. Research by the FSA found that whilst stress testing has improved, there were wide ...