FCAT Explorer Middle Schools, Miami, 5/7/02 Infinity

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From the Florida Department of Education
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Reading Timeline 10th Grade Benchmarks
Program Overview
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Fidelity with the Official FCAT

• Strict adherence to the Sunshine State Standards
  and the DOEs Test Item Performance Task
  Specifications

• Rigorous item development process

• Items drafted by reading teachers and
  professional item writers
• Items reviewed by instructional designers,
  testing specialists, bias reviewers, and
  professional editors

From the passage, The Greatest Gaucho
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Reading Timeline 10th Grade Benchmarks

• Interactive program offers practice on the
  FCAT-tested benchmarks
• Reinforces reading comprehension skills
• Available at no cost to all Florida public
  schools
• Accessible from any computer connected to the
  Internet

From the passage, Alternative Energy Sources
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Input from Exemplary Education Professionals

• Highly-qualified classroom teachers

• Recommended for expertise in subject area and
  grade level
• National Board Certified
• Recipients of Teacher of the Year awards
• Experienced as FCAT Coach and/or Reading Coach
• Masters Degrees

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Passages and Practice Items
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FCAT-like Practice
PASSAGES

• 23 original reading passages
• Same types poems, articles, and stories
• Same average length and readability level as on
  the FCAT

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FCAT-like Practice
PASSAGES
From the passage, The Big Cat
Learn More reference section provides practice
using multiple resources

• Charts, tables
• Graphs, diagrams
• Timelines, schedules
• Maps
• Bibliographies
• Outlines
• Supplementary articles text

From the passage, The Erie Canal Shaping a Nation
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FCAT-like Practice
PRACTICE ITEMS

• Rigorous item development process

• Written by professional item writers
• Reviewed, edited and approved by teachers
• Revised as needed based on statistical item
  analysis

• Same average number of items per passage as on
  the FCAT

• Number of items per skill based on teacher
  recommendation for struggling readers
• No fewer than 5 items per skill
• From 5 to 50 items per Benchmark

• Same type, style, format, scope cognitive level
  as on the FCAT

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FCAT-like Practice
PRACTICE ITEMS
From the passage, The Erie Canal Shaping a Nation

• 249 FCAT-like practice items

• 122 Multiple-Choice
• 79 Short-Response
• 28 Extended-Response
• 20 Open-Response

• Many items reflect real-world activities and
  situations

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FCAT-like Practice
MULTIPLE CHOICE (MC)

• Items clearly support skill
• Displays only plausible choices

• All answer choices are parallel (e.g.,
  grammatical form)
• One clearly best answer
• Correct answer supported in the text

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FCAT-like Practice
SIMULATED SRs ERs

• Short-Response Compare two responses select
  the high score
• Extended-Response Read one response assign
  a score
• Simulation strategies recommended by teachers

• Based on classroom instructional practices
• Requires student to compare or assess critical
  attributes

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FCAT-like Practice
OPEN RESPONSE SRs ERs

• Students compose original answers
• Compare student answer to model response
• Read explanation of attributes that earn model
  response a high score

Click Explanation tab to see why Model earns
high score
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Instructional Support
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Instructional Support
1ST ATTEMPTCORRECT

• Congratulates student
• Displays Correct Answer Explanation (CAE)

• Identifies which answer is correct
• Explains attributes that make each answer
  correct or incorrect
• Reinforces effective skill application

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Instructional Support
1ST ATTEMPT INCORRECT

• Informs student that answer is incorrect
• Encourages student to re-read text gives hint
  about what to look for

• Encourages student to strengthen this skill by
  reviewing Skill Information (skill definition
  example)
• Gives second chance to answer correctly

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Instructional Support
2nd ATTEMPT CORRECT or INCORRECT
Instructional support for correct answer

• Correct answer

• Congratulates student
• Displays CAE

• Incorrect answer

• Notifies student that selected answer is
  incorrect
• Displays CAE

Instructional support for incorrect answer
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Special Features

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Special Learning Features
REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION MODULES

• Features pre-test and post-tests
• Depending upon pre-test results, program sends
  student to a set of remedial modules, each of
  which teaches one critical reading skill

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Special Learning Features
REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION MODULES

• Predicting Meaning
• Meaning From Context
• Using Word Parts
• Main Idea
• Methods of Organizing Text
• Authors Purpose
• Validity Reliability of Resources
• Synthesis of Information

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Special Learning Features
VIEW QUESTIONS

• Allows students to preview item stems(not
  answer choices)
• Helps students establish a purpose for reading
• Teacher-requested feature

Click View Questions
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Special Learning Features
GLOSSARY
Click the word portend to go to that Glossary
entry

• Click linked (blue) words in passage
• Click ear icon to hear word pronounced
• Spelling part of speech
• Definition
• Spanish and Haitian Creole translations

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Special Learning Features
AS-NEEDED REVIEW

• Easy access at any time to Skills Review
• Select skill to review

• Definition
• Example

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Special Learning Features
CHALLENGE LIST

• Links directly to items answered incorrectly
• Helps students focus on skill improvement
• Displays corresponding Benchmark

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Motivational Features

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Motivational Features
TIMELINE

• Displays animated movement back and forth across
  time
• Movement engages attention
• Timeline helps student gain sense of events
  throughout history

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Motivational Features
HIGH-INTEREST PASSAGE TOPICS

• Topics drawn from other subject areas in the
  Sunshine State Standards
• Passages reviewed by 10th grade teachers for
  potential to interest struggling 10th grade
  students

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Motivational Features
ANIMATED ILLUSTRATIONS

• Reinforce important ideas in the passage
• Help pique curiosity
• Help maintain attention endurance
• Help students perceive reading as an interesting
  activity

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Educators Tools

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Educators Tools

• Curriculum resources

Classroom Teachers Desk

• Skills Location Map
• Table of Benchmarks and Skills
• Item Review
• Letter to Parents

School Administrators Desk

• Information management tools

• Sign-in names and passwords
• Progress Reports
• Messages to students

District Administrators Desk
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Student Performance Reports
At the Classroom Teachers Desk

• Check progress on individuals or classes
• View reading data by Benchmark, Skill, or Passage
• Compare percentage correct before and after
  instructional support

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The Parent Family Guide

• Accessible from the home page without a password
• Available in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole
• Helps parents, guardians, and mentors understand
  the Sunshine State Standards and the FCAT
• Provides Everyday Activities to help parents
  reinforce Benchmarks and Skills

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Visit the Educator Resources Page

• Linked from the home page
• Download this PowerPoint presentation
• Download the School Administrators Desk Manual
• Download the Teachers Desk Manual

• Download several program-specific presentations

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Toll-Free Help Desk

• Accessible from the home page without a password
• 1-888-750-FCAT 1-888-750-3228
• Weekdays 830 a.m. 430 p.m.

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To get sign-in names passwords

• School Principals Contact your District Office
  and speak to the District Administrator for the
  FCAT Explorer
• Teachers Contact your School Administrator
  for the FCAT Explorer

FCAT Explorer Home Page (www.fcatexplorer.com)
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