The new Florida Assessment of Student Thinking — or FAST — is a progress-monitoring ... school who scored below a Level 3 on grade 3 or grade 4 statewide, standardized ELA assessment in ...

On Monday, Dec. 11, the Florida Department of Education released school FAST grades for the ... from prekindergarten through 10th grade, it requires even 4-year old children to sit in front ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida education leaders are celebrating what they call "significant student growth and improvements" in the second year of statewide progress monitoring tests. The Florida ...

The honesty gap is measured by comparing the percentage of students proficient on the NAEP to the percent proficient on the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST). Fourth-grade readers have ...

Florida Department of Education calculated their scores based on students' performance on their third quarter FAST test and ... at or above grade level, a difference of 4% compared to the previous ...

The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking, or FAST, exams replaced the grade-level Florida Standards Assessments for the 2022-2023 school year. Tests were administered in three rounds ...

Scores for the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking, or FAST, test — created in March ... students still need to pass the exams to move to fourth grade and, later, to graduate high school.

The Senate had already backed away from its proposal to delete Florida’s third-grade retention law, which bars from fourth grade many youngsters — nearly 22,000 in 2022 — who cannot pass the ...