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Seminole County School leaders plan to waive the use of the Florida Standards Assessments test for students next year, and instead will be using other nationally valid tests, such as the PSAT and SAT.

The item specifications part of the FLDOE website has been critical to prepare my students for FCA's and FCAT. If you find the item specification you can read to find out which pieces of information are tested. I try not to exclude data, but to ensure I cover the material being tested thoroughly. One example are states of matter teach three states or four states? Plasma is a state of matter not tested until high school. I include it to provoke thought, but I do not make it the main focus of my sixth grade lessons.

For ESL/EFL/English learners/teachers: Courses, documents, games, exercises, tests, interactive pages, plays, fonts, cliparts, photos, jokes, cartoons, chat rooms, forums...

There is a great deal of enthusiasm for the use of games in formal educational contexts; however, there is a notable and problematic lack of studies that make use of replicable study designs to empirically link games to learning (Young, et al., 2012). This paper documents the iterative design and development of an educationally focused game, Compareware in Flash and for the iPad. We also report on a corresponding pilot study of 146 Grades 1 and 2 students playing the game, a paper and pencil related activity and completing a pre- and post-test. The paper outlines preliminary findings from the play testing, which included high levels of student engagement, an approaching statistical improvement from pre- to post-test, and a discussion of the improvements that needed to be made to the game following the pilot study.

I loved using this site to help my students practice skills in reading and math prior to completing science practice. Unfortunately the science test is testing reading comprehension as much as it tests science. If students are great at hands on experiments but cannot associate a paragraph of written material to the hands on activity, then they will not do well on FCAT Science. FCAT Explorer will help with those skills prior to science lessons.

FCAT Explorer is a free, online educational program for Florida's students that reinforces reading and math skills outlined in the Sunshine State Standards.

Isn't FCAT going away?

This document was provided from the Seminole County School District as a resource for teachers, parents, and students. It provides them with information about the FSA testing and answers some of the most popular questions that they may have.

Rollicking homework help, teacher resources, and online test prep. Homework help lovingly written by PhD students from Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley

Schoology is an online learning management system. It offers many free features to teachers, such as: Personalized Homepage, Course Profiles, Calendar, Online Homework Dropboxes, Create Assignments and Events, Create Tests and Quizzes, Online Gradebook and Attendance, Track Student Usage and Course Analytics, User Connections (Professional Networks), Messaging, Customizable Notifications, Announcements, Discussions, Group Workspaces (Collaboration), and more...

"Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards."

Today's tutoring programs are redefining learning by telling teachers what students need, when they need it. 

This is an interesting look into the process our test-makers and standard-setters go through when evaluating content requirements of the FSA and determining what makes a "passing" score. I would give anything to have been able to participate in this panel! I can't imagine what kind of insight those attending back in 2015 received about the "mysterious" FSA test.

Free downloads, I just downloaded a program that I can use to organic chains i.e.. carbon, hexane 

FCAT prep for all tested content areas, grouped by benchmark and grade level. Hoping to use this with my students this year as long as we have enough computers available.

Modern technology is amazing! Millions of people are revolutionizing the internet. Paper books are becoming obsolete and students are texting and collaborating like never before. Group communication between students and teachers has minimized classwork and has elaborated testing for all concerned. Now tests are immediately scored and feedback is given at an astounding rate.

VR in the classroom

EdTech Resource Database with teacher-tested resources! lots of quality materials here for education technology!

Has many great ideas and way to implement them in the classroom. It's not "just a test" Great idea!