ARTICLE 5

TEST SHOULD INFORM NOT DRIVE EDUCATION




This article is about the F-Cat. F-Cat determines whether a student graduate or retain or which teacher get bonuses. The Florida teacher, school and school districts must be held accountable for teaching children to read, write, count and think. Parents, students and teachers all have complained about the exit test. They say that the students performance should be the sum of their class work, test, participation, homework and other effort not how well they do in one test. 200,000 tests now must be regarded due to the fact that they had errors. The F-cat contractors did dent caught the error until later. Red flags were raised after this year’s third grade reading scores came in below last year’s scores. Performance indicators think that standard test are valuable tools. It identifies weakness and strengths.