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Prepared for Prasanth P. | Delivered January 27, 2021
Florida: Education Standards and Assessments
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Goals
To gather information on the pre-kindergarten to first-grade education standards in Florida and assessment methods for kids in order to help them prepare for Berkeley Preparatory School.
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Early Findings
Standards in Florida
Standards for the state of Florida can be found on
CPALMS's website
. It's an
official
source for standards information and course descriptions in the state.
CPALMS's
search engine
allows searching by subject and grade, including
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, kindergarten, and first grade.
Private schools
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to follow Florida's standards. The state is not responsible for the content and comprehensiveness of their
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, student assessments, grades, graduation and promotion requirements, or certification, quality, and training of teachers.
According to Florida's Department of Education, private schools
tend to
advertise that their program meets or surpasses state standards. However, the department believes that parents should verify those each school's claims by doing their own research.
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in Specific Schools
Berkeley Preparatory School does not disclose its detailed
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However, there is some information on the
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for each grade. For
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, it includes social and emotional development, cognitive growth, creative expression, and physical development.
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for the reading workshop, the writing workshop, mathematics, social studies, and science for
kindergarten
and
first grade
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Public schools
commonly
refer
to Florida's state standards on their "curriculum" pages, referring to CPALMS's website.
Assessments
According to the
Family Guide
prepared by North West Evaluation Association (NWEA), the best way to prepare for its MAP Growth assessment is to take practice tests that are available
here
.
Children's Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA) has been acquired by NWEA
in 2012
. It appears that the old website is inactive. There are also no additional resources on NWEA's website.
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