1. The Florida Standards: What Every Parent Should Know
Ms. H’s Fourth Grade Math FSA

2. Improving Instruction Today; Preparing for Tomorrow
I am Pam Moore, Associate Superintendent, Teaching and Learning Services, and I am very pleased to be with you this evening. As a district, we are approaching the transition to the Florida Standards as a journey, and we prefer to be longsighted, not shortsighted in this preparation.

3. Intended Outcomes: What are the Florida Standards?
What are the benefits of the Florida Standards?
What is the design of the FSA Math Assessments?
When will students in Florida take the FSA?
Where can you find additional information?
It is my intended outcome for our time together this evening to answer these questions --- and that you will walk away with a better understanding of the changes we are experiencing, and the plans that have been put into place to assist your students.
AUDIENCE: How many of you are parents? How many are teachers? How many are administrators?
In a group of this size, it is difficult to address individual questions, and trust me, you will have some! I have provided some blank index cards for you to write a question and leave it with me at the close of our time together. I will collectively answer them and include them in a Q/A compilation that I will send to each principal. They can include the information in their newsletters or post on their website.

4. Why New Standards? Preparing Students to be College and Career Ready
College Ready
Ready for credit bearing course work upon entrance into college
Career Ready
Ready for a job that provides a salary to support a family of four with benefits and opportunity for promotion (not a poverty level job)
The Florida Standards were created based on the Common Core State Standards with a focus on providing students with the level of rigorous instruction that will prepare students to be college and/or career ready.
College ready means that they are prepared to enter college and be successful in credit-bearing course work without first having to take remedial courses.
Career ready means that they will be prepared to enter the workforce in a job that can support a family and has promotion opportunities with benefits.

5. Why Florida Standards Matter
Our goal is to ensure Florida’s students graduate high school ready for success in college, career and life. In order to prepare our students for success and make them competitive in the global workplace, we must provide them with a set of clear, consistent and strong academic standards.
The Florida Standards will equip our students with the knowledge and skills they need to be ready for careers and college-level coursework. Having the best and highest academic standards for our students today will prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow.

6. Why did we need a change? Lack of Clarity
“Write for a variety of purposes.”
“Respond to variety of literary/informational texts.”
“Competently use money.”
Were these standards clear to teachers, students, and parents?
The key word here is “clear” – what do they mean?

7. Why did we need a change? Inconsistencies
Different districts set different learning targets
Different classrooms learning different topics
We must expect high achievement from all students in all classrooms
Florida chose to include more standards than those outlined in Common Core
State differences
Differences within states
Differences within classrooms
Low expectations?

8. New Tests for New Standards
With new, more rigorous standards in place to help Florida students succeed, the FCAT 2.0 no longer serves the purpose of measuring student progress and achievement.
The Florida Standards Assessments (FSA) will measure student mastery of the newly adopted Florida Standards through a variety of item types.
The Florida Standards Assessments items are created to measure the students’ achievement towards reaching the expectations provided by the Florida Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics. The items are being written based on the Florida Standards Draft Item Specifications. The Item Specifications define the content and format of the assessment and test items. The Draft Item Specifications were released in June 2014 and can be found at

9. What is Different about the Florida Standards Assessments?
Assesses the higher expectations of the Florida Standards
Provides a basis for comparing Florida performance to that of other states
Emphasizes analytical thinking
Provides a more authentic assessment through a variety of item formats
Increased complexity of texts
Focus on foundational math skills and application in novel, real-world situations
Increased focus on justifying and presenting results and methods
Critical reading and writing infused across all curricular areas
Re-ordering of math content to reflect research-based path to college and career readiness
The Florida Standards Assessments (FSA) items are intended to measure student achievement in a more authentic way using multiple item formats in both the English Language Arts and the Mathematics assessments. Specific examples of the different types of items will follow in this presentation. For example, one type of authentic item different from the FCAT 2.0 requires students to respond to what they have read or to explain their mathematical reasoning in written performance items. Students are being asked to perform a much higher level of analytical thinking to read, comprehend, analyze, and synthesize information from multiple sources to be able to correctly respond to the FSA assessment items.
Although the FSA is not a part of the two national testing consortiums, the standards on which the FSA items are being based are the Florida Standards which are grounded in the Common Core State Standards upon which PARCC and Smarter Balanced items are based . The PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessment items are, therefore, measuring similar standards and it is hoped that Florida will be able to draw some correlation to the performance of other states who are using PARCC or Smarter Balanced assessments.

10. Benefits of Florida Standards
Preparation:
The Florida Standards will prepare students for both college and the workplace and emphasizes higher-order skills instead of knowledge and recall.

11. Benefits of Florida Standards
Competition: The Florida Standards have been influenced by internationally-benchmarked standards, ensuring that our students are prepared to be competitive in the global job market.

12. Benefits of Florida Standards
Clarity: The standards are focused, coherent, and clear. Everyone knows what is expected of our students.

13. Benefits of Florida Standards
Collaboration:
Florida Standards will be a foundation for teachers across districts to work together from the same blueprints. This will facilitate the sharing of best practices.

14. Florida Standards Assessment Test Design Mathematical Practice Standards
Students will read a stimulus about a single topic. A stimulus consists of several texts written on a single topic. The stimulus should consist of information or literary fiction or nonfiction from 2-4 texts and can cover a wide array of topics. After reading the stimulus, the students will respond to a writing prompt in which they will be required to synthesize provide information on a topic or take a stance to support an opinion or argument citing specific evidence from the texts to support their ideas.

15. Mathematics Standards for Mathematical CONTENT (Familiar)
Define what students should know and be able to do (The “What”)
Standards for Mathematical PRACTICE
(New and Different)
Describe ways in which the mathematical content standards should be approached (The “How”)
The words :
Explain (orally, and in writing)
Communicate (tell others, write about it)
Analyze (draw conclusions, test hypotheses)
These become the “habits of the mind”

16. Instructional CHANGES in Math
Promote deep student discussion on the content
Emphasis on Student Tasks (performance-tasks)
Include PRACTICE Standards at all grade levels
Expanded use of technology
Under FCAT 2.0 and EOCs in HS/MS, students are tested only on the content standards. FSA – they will be assessed on the content AND mathematical practices through multiple choice questions, evidence-based written responses and performance tasks for K-8 and content EOCs through Algebra 2.
More than defining function – what it is AND what it is not.
Creating habits of mind – thinking like a mathematician, understanding, fluency and precision, justification/application – using technology.
3rd grade math: After working with fractions, students will engage in 3 different activities to demonstrate their learning – concrete example – show ½ on a bar graph; representative example – using a circle graph, show how you would break the circle into parts; abstract level – You are cooking and your recipe calls for ½ cup of sugar. You only have a ¼ measuring cup. Explain in writing what you should do. (real world applications)

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FSA Calculator Summary
Assessment
Calculator Permitted
Grades 3 and 4 Mathematics
PBT- None
Grades 5 and 6 Mathematics
CBT - None
Grades 7 and 8
Algebra 1
Algebra 2 Geometry
Computer-based scientific calculator or hand-held scientific calculator (during certain sessions only)
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18. Conversions will be provided in a pop-up window for the
grades 5-11 CBT and as a conversion sheet for grade 4.
Customary Conversions
1 foot = 12 inches
1 yard = 3 feet
1 mile = 5,280 feet
1 mile = 1,760 yards
1 cup = 8 fluid ounces
1 pint = 2 cups
1 quart = 2 pints
1 gallon = 4 quarts
1 pound = 16 ounces
1 ton = 2,000 pounds
Metric Conversions
1 meter = 100 centimeters
1 meter = 1000 millimeters
1 kilometer = 1000 meters
1 liter = 1000 milliliters
1 gram = 1000 milligrams
1 kilogram = 1000 grams
Time Conversions
1 minute = 60 seconds
1 hour = 60 minutes
1 day = 24 hours
1 year = 365 days
1 year = 52 weeks
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19. Multiple Choice Item
Multiple-choice items requires students to select a single answer.

20. Multi-Select Items
Multi-select items allow students to select more than one answer option. These are different from multi-choice items, which allow you to select only one response.

21. Graphic Response Item
This type of graphic response question focuses on plotting information. Students are asked to read the item text and the information provided in the chart and then using the “Add Point” tool, plot eight points to correctly answer the question and complete a scatter plot that graphically depicts what is provided in the item text.

22. Graphic Response Item
The graphic response item provided is an example of the “drag and drop” response where students are asked to sort rational and irrational numbers by dragging the different responses from the bottom of the page into the proper column. Another type of drag and drop item might require students to drag points from one location to another on a number line.

23. Equation Response Item
Equation items are used extensively throughout the mathematics test. In this item you are required to enter a valid statement that answers the question. To enter an equation, students will click a button that is provided on the screen for each letter or symbol. An example of a more complex process of solving an equation from information provided on a diagram is illustrated in the next example.

24. Equation Response Item
A chocolate company selects 100 random packages to check their weight and packaging. The company finds that 5 packages have incorrect weights and 10 different packages have incorrect packaging.
How many packages out of 2,000 should the company predict have only incorrect weights?
How many packages out of 2,000 should the company predict have only incorrect packaging?
A third type of equation item would require a multi-step solution. This is considered a open-response item that requires students to use the keyboard to enter the response into a text field. Different types of open-response items may appear on the test.

25. Florida Standards Assessment Summaries

26. Who is impacted? K-12 students
Current 3rd – 11th graders will take the new Florida State Assessments (FSA)
All students are being taught the new standards, and the state snapshot of their learning is assessed in grades 3-11.
Students in K-2 are engaged in learning tasks to prepare them for these state assessments, and will have multiple opportunities to practice!

27. Florida Standards Assessment Timeline & Dates

28. Florida Standards Assessment Format
Paper-based accommodated exams will consist of multiple-choice, multiselect, and gridded-response questions.
Computer-based exams will consist of multiple- choice, multiselect, and technology- enhanced questions (using online tools and manipulatives).
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30. FSA
Mathematics
Assessments

31. WE WILL BE TESTING ON APRIL 12-13
Assessment Calendar
Date
Grade
Assessment
April 10–May 5, 2017
WE WILL BE TESTING ON APRIL 12-13
3 & 4
4TH
FSA Mathematics
COMPUTER BASED

32. Where can I go for more information about the standards?
Resources:
Parent Guides to Student Success
By grade level
Sample of what your child will be working on
Activities included for you to support at home
Hold up book – PTA has given a sample to each school principal from a grant they received to assist with parent education of the CCSS.
Easy to print from home.

33. Informational Resources
Florida Department of Education
CPALMS
FLDOE Assessment Website
FSA Portal
The informational resources listed are referenced throughout the PowerPoint.
There is an informational FSA Technology Moodle for teachers and administrators that can be accessed at the website provided on the slide.
CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards. It is the State of Florida’s official source for standards information and course descriptions.
FLDOE Assessment Website is the official Florida Department of Education assessment website
FSA Portal is the website that provides access to resources that support all stakeholders in better understanding the expectations of the Florida Standards Assessment
Florida STEM Wikispaces is the Florida Department of Education Mathematics, Science, and STEM Wikispace. FSA guidance tools can be found under the Podcasts, Vodcasts, Online Meeting Archives and Note tab on the right side of the webpage screen.