TAMPA — The validity of the test, the way it’s graded and the way those grades are used have come under question by parents and educators since the new Florida Standards Assessment debuted last year.
Still, students across the state are preparing to take the exam a second time at the end of this month and officials are rushing to address concerns with how it is administered.
“I’m cautiously optimistic things will go better this year,” said Senate Education Committee Chairman John Legg, R-Trinity, who called for an independent validation study last April amid reports of hackers disrupting the computerized tests, networks failing from overuse and questions on content students never learned.
