{"id":10912,"date":"2012-07-27T15:36:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=10912"},"modified":"2012-07-28T07:55:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T11:55:12","slug":"panel-recommends-lowering-passing-score-for-fcat-writing-but-will-education-commissioner-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/27\/panel-recommends-lowering-passing-score-for-fcat-writing-but-will-education-commissioner-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel Recommends Lowering Passing Score For FCAT Writing, But Will Education Commissioner Agree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10914\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 240px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/27\/panel-recommends-lowering-passing-score-for-fcat-writing-but-will-education-commissioner-listen\/students-testing-by-southworth-sailor\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10914\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10914\" title=\"students testing by Southworth Sailor\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/students-testing-by-Southworth-Sailor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Southworth Sailor\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>A team of educators and community leaders gathered this week to set standards for FCAT 2.0 writing.<\/p>\n<p>The panel went through a lot of data before settling on a school grade writing performance level of 3.5. That means students would need to score 3.5 out of a possible 6 to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation would lower the cut score from a 4. Writing test results plummeted this year because of <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/15\/explaining-how-the-fcat-writing-test-changed-in-2012\/\">the passing score of 4 and the tougher grading standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The number is used to determine who passes FCAT writing in grades 4, 8, and 10.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 20-member panel represented a cross-section of stakeholders statewide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a student, I had never had the opportunity to be exposed to the process behind the decisions that affect the FCAT,\u201d Reagan McKendree, a panel member and high school student in Baker County, said in a press release. \u201cI\u2019m grateful I was given a chance to express my opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reasoning behind the panel\u2019s recommendation will be presented to Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson for his consideration. Then, it will go before the State Board of Education this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether Robinson will accept the recommendation <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/12\/08\/why-floridas-education-commissioner-raised-the-bar-on-reading\/\">or ignore it as he did last year<\/a> when new reading scores were proposed.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of experts recommended a reading score of\u00a0243 for the 10<sup>th<\/sup> grade FCAT. Robinson recommended a score two points higher, even though superintendents widely supported the lower cut score.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson said higher standards were needed and that students would rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of educators and community leaders gathered this week to set standards for FCAT 2.0 writing. The panel went through a lot of data before settling on a school grade writing performance level of 3.5. That means students would need to score 3.5 out of a possible 6 to pass. The recommendation would lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[358,426,1075,1049],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10924,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912\/revisions\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}