FAST Assessment
Complete guides to Florida's FAST assessment system including test structure, scoring, and preparation strategies.
Bubble Students and the New FAST Accountability: What Florida Schools Need to Know
In the high-stakes environment of K-12 education accountability, resource allocation is rarely a function of pure pedagogical idealism. It is a function of strategic optimization. For decades,...
Data-Driven Dashboards for School Leaders: From Reporting to Action
To translate assessment data insights into practice, schools must transition from "autopsying the dead" (analyzing lag data from the previous year) to "monitoring the patient" (using real-time FAST...
FAST Assessment Complete Guide
FAST (Florida Assessment of Student Thinking) is Florida's computer-adaptive progress monitoring system for B.E.S.T. Standards accountability.
FAST Scale Score Cut Points and Level Widths: A Strategic Analysis for Florida Schools
To operationalize any strategy for student targeting, school leaders must first navigate the precise coordinate system of the FAST assessment. Unlike fixed-form tests where a raw score corresponds...
Florida FAST Assessment Overview
Florida Assessment of Student Thinking. Replaced FSA (Florida Standards Assessment) in 2022-23. Progress monitoring assessment given 3 times per year. Measures student achievement and growth in ELA...
Learning Gains and Intervention ROI: Maximizing Impact in Florida's FAST System
Strategic student targeting relies heavily on the concept of Return on Investment (ROI). In the context of school accountability, ROI can be mathematically defined as the accountability points...
PM1 to PM3 Predictive Modeling: Using Fall Baselines to Forecast Spring Outcomes
The FAST system's progress monitoring design, with three administrations per year (PM1 in fall, PM2 in winter, PM3 in spring), allows for highly accurate predictive modeling. For school leaders and...
Technical Bubble Students: Why Cross-Subject Data Changes Everything
Most education data tools look at students one subject at a time. A student scores Level 2 in ELA, so they're labeled "below proficient" and handed a generic reading intervention. But what if that...