RTTT Assessment Program: What Florida is doing; what Florida missed out on
Twelve states – including Massachusetts, New York and Mississippi, have jointly proposed a breathtaking overhaul of high school with a request to the Race to the Top Assessment Program. The full proposal is available here, but the Center for K-12 Assessment and Performance Management prepared a nice illustration of what the “SCOBES” program would do. In short, the program would track students by using a European-style testing program. The program would include a specific track for students preparing for STEM majors in selective colleges and universities, as well as others for non-STEM majors in selective postsecondary institutions, and career and technical programs based both in the schools and at community colleges.
Florida chose not to join SCOBES, but is playing a leading role in PARCC, a consortium requesting $160 million to overhaul math and language arts assessment in grades 3-11. The Center for K-12 Assessment and Performance Management also prepared an illustration of the PARCC proposal.
It is frustrating that Florida has passed on SCOBES and is therefore doing nothing about science assessment.
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