TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's high stakes tests taken by millions of school children are valid according to a new independent study.
But the study released Tuesday by the Department of Education continues to raise serious questions about the test known as the Florida Standards Assessment. The test replaced the Florida Comprehensive Assessment and is based on standards linked to Common Core.
"We suspected, at least some indication, that there was good correlation for a majority of those items. There still needs to be some clean up done, some improvement done to make sure we have 100 percent correlation between the new standards and the new tests," said Orange County Schools Superintendent Dr. Barbara Jenkins.
PDF: Issues with first week of FSA testing
PDF: Issues with second week of FSA testing
The study says the troubled rollout of the test this past spring means that the test scores of some students who took it online "will be suspect." The study said there are no problems with school children who took the test on paper and pencil. Approximately 2.4 million tests were given online this year.
State legislators ordered the study after there were problems with the administration of the test.
Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said in a statement the department will be able to use this year's test scores in calculating school grades.
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