{"id":1056,"date":"2009-06-01T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2009-07-29T17:59:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T21:59:55","slug":"11th-grade-science-fcat-vs-end-of-course-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"11th-grade science FCAT vs. end-of-course exams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Sentinel education blog has a post up <\/a>reporting that a group of concerned science professors is pushing hard to kill off the 11th-grade science FCAT and replace it with relevant end-of-course exams. We here at Florida Citizens for Science\u00c2\u00a0are also questioning the usefulness of the 11th grade science FCAT, especially in light of this year’s results released last week. We hope to send an op-ed to newspapers across the state a little later this week that, in part, discusses this very issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Sentinel education blog has a post up reporting that a group of concerned science professors is pushing hard to kill off the 11th-grade science FCAT and replace it with relevant end-of-course exams. We here at Florida Citizens for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-h2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":878,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=878","url_meta":{"origin":1056,"position":0},"title":"End-of-course exams","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Orlando Sentinel picks up on my previous post about a bill proposing to do away with the 11th grade science FCAT, and talks about end-of-course exams. Florida educational leaders have indicated support for end-of-the-year exams in high school. They think testing what students learned at the end of a\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=878#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1201,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1201","url_meta":{"origin":1056,"position":1},"title":"2010 Science FCAT and beyond","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The annual Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test results are finally released. These are exams that students across the state in specific grade levels must take in core subjects. These scores can influence students\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 promotion to the next grade, and dictate what the student can or cannot take the next school year,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1201#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1345,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1345","url_meta":{"origin":1056,"position":2},"title":"Science FCAT 2011","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Results for Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual science exams taken by 3rd, 8th, and 11th graders were released today. The good news? Scores overall improved since last year. The bad news? The rise in scores is small, and 50 percent of our state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s students aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t proficient in science. 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(see here, here\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 5 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 5 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=891#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":945,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=945","url_meta":{"origin":1056,"position":4},"title":"End of course bill moves forward","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Orlando Sentinal education blog, School Zone, reports that the bill\u00c2\u00a0proposing to\u00c2\u00a0do away with the 11th grade science FCAT and replace it with end of course exams got its first nod of approval. 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