{"id":18700,"date":"2013-05-24T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18700"},"modified":"2013-05-24T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T21:13:13","slug":"fcat-writing-scores-show-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/24\/fcat-writing-scores-show-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"FCAT Writing Scores Show Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florida Department of Education<\/p>

Scores from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test have been released. The test is being phased out to make way for new Common Core assessments.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Florida Department of Education (DOE) has posted the results of FCAT 2.0 Writing and 3rd Grade FCAT 2.0 Reading and Mathematics assessments.<\/a><\/p>\n

Overall, FCAT 2.0 Writing in grades 4, 8 and 10 improved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Students don’t need to pass the writing test to advance to the next grade. But, the percentage of students scoring at least a 3.5 \u2013 on a scale of 1 to 6 – is used to calculate school grades.<\/p>\n

The results for 2013 show students who scored a 3.5 and above increased by 4 percentage points over last year, and those scoring at 4.0 and above increased by 5 percentage points.<\/p>\n

DOE shows a breakdown of scores based on race\/ethnicity, with white students performing better overall than their Hispanic and African-American counterparts.<\/a><\/p>\n

The scores also show improvements for English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities.<\/p>\n

FCAT 2.0 Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Statewide Subgroup Comparison, 2012-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Grades 4, 8, and 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Score Point 3.0 and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Above<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Score Point 3.5 and Above<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Score Point 4.0 and Above<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

All Students<\/td>\n\n

81%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

82%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

54%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

58%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

33%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

38%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

White<\/td>\n\n

83%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

84%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

59%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

62%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

38%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

42%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

African-American<\/td>\n\n

76%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

79%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

43%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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49%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

23%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

28%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Hispanic<\/td>\n\n

81%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

83%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

52%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

56%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

30%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

36%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Students with Disabilities<\/td>\n\n

55%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

58%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

27%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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31%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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13%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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16%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

English Language Learners<\/td>\n\n

57%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

59%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

27%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

31%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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12%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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15%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Click here to check each county’s performance<\/a>. Individual schools are also listed.<\/p>\n

Did you know the FCAT is going away? Check out StateImpact Florida’s parents guide to how new standardized tests coming in 2015 are different from the FCAT<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Florida Department of Education (DOE) has posted the results of FCAT 2.0 Writing and 3rd Grade FCAT 2.0 Reading and Mathematics assessments. Overall, FCAT 2.0 Writing in grades 4, 8 and 10 improved. Students don’t need to pass the writing test to advance to the next grade. But, the percentage of students scoring at […]<\/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],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18700"}],"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=18700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}