{"id":21827,"date":"2014-04-14T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21827"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T18:51:13","slug":"the-florida-tests-which-will-remain-after-the-switch-to-common-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/04\/14\/the-florida-tests-which-will-remain-after-the-switch-to-common-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Florida Tests Which Will Remain After The Switch To Common Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The FCAT will mostly disappear from Florida schools next year. But the state's science exam will still carry the FCAT name.<\/p><\/div>\n

The final bell begins tolling today for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Florida schools are scheduled to complete the switch to new K-12 math and language arts standards based on Common Core<\/a> this fall. New standards will require a new test.<\/p>\n

So Florida is switching to math and language arts exams produced by the American Institutes for Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FCAT is going away — with one exception. Fifth and eighth grade students will still take the FCAT science exam. Florida State University physics professor Paul Cottle noted the exam will stagger on:<\/p>\n

.@StateImpactFL<\/a> Not correct. The Science FCAT at grades 5 and 8 will continue on, zombie-like.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Paul Cottle (@PaulCottlePhys) April 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A handful of current end-of-course exams will also still be produced by Florida. Those include the seventh grade Civics exam, Biology 1 and U.S. History<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our chart below shows which Florida tests will stay and which ones will go when Florida makes the switch in early 2015.<\/p>\n

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The final bell begins tolling today for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Florida schools are scheduled to complete the switch to new K-12 math and language arts standards based on Common Core this fall. New standards will require a new test. So Florida is switching to math and language arts exams produced by the American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":21828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[930,1157,1019,415,1006],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}