Congratulations to this week's Cambridge Learner Attributes Students of the Week. Jephte Pierre was nominated for being RESPONSIBLE, Jean Vargas was nominated for being CONFIDENT and Jack Rogala was nominated for being INNOVATIVE.

CONFIDENT

RESPONSIBLE

REFLECTIVE

INNOVATIVE

ENGAGED

The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) is a progress monitoring system that is administered three times per year to track your student’s progress in learning the Benchmarks of Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards. The purpose of this letter is to inform you that your student will participate in the second administration (PM2) of the Grade 6- 8 Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) ELA Reading and Mathematics assessments on December 2nd and December 4th . Your student’s results from PM2 provide mid-year information on student progress, and you will be provided with information about how to access the results after testing is completed.

FAST assessments are computer-adaptive tests taken on a computer or tablet. The questions get easier or more difficult depending on how the student responds, and each student will see different questions from a common item bank. Each test attempt (PM1, PM2, and PM3) will present 35–40 items that will cover the entire test “blueprint,” meaning students will encounter items representative of the standards within the subject or grade level. For more information on the test design, please visit https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/assessments/k-12-student-assessment/best/.

If you or your student would like to interact with the online testing platform or review FAST ELA Reading and Mathematics sample items at home, sample test materials are available at https://flfast.org/families.html.

If you have any questions related to this test administration, you may contact Rebecca Brown at Rebecca.Brown4@ocps.net .  

 

For more information about the FAST program, please visit the portal at https://flfast.org/fsa.html.