Thursday, March 12, 2009

Standard and Comprehensive Assessment Tests





My fellow classmates and I just got done with our yearly test-taking requirements... The dreaded FCAT. Every year we're expected to take this test that supposedly decides whether we go onto the next grade or not and man kids stress so much they can't think of anything else. Once in 11th grade, you're supposed to get a break from these FCATs, but that wasn't the case this year either. Eleventh graders were expected to take the Science FCAT.
Another issue that sometimes comes up in middle or elementary school, is the issue over whether or not certain hispanic or foreigners should take the FCAT or not. And if they do whether they should have some sort of assistance.
I looked up a website on varied statistics of the FCAT and this is what I found:

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