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Assistant Deputy Commissioner
325 West Gaines Street, Suite 414
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0400
About Us
The Office of Assessment provides a wide range of testing services to Florida schools, school districts, community colleges, universities, and students, including testing of students, teachers, and principals. The mission of the Office of Assessment is to develop and/or purchase valid and reliable assessment instruments, to administer these assessments under standardized and secure conditions, and to score and report the results of these assessments accurately, efficiently, and effectively given the constraints of available resources. Office staff members are dedicated to accomplishing this mission through specializing in two main areas of assessment: K-12 student assessments and postsecondary assessments. The work of each area must satisfy both Florida and Federal regulations, including the requirements of Florida's school accountability laws and the requirements of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Bureau of K-12 Student Assessments
The K-12 assessment programs provide information about student learning in Florida and include the following assessment programs:
- FCAT - Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test®
- FCAT 2.0 (beginning in the 2010-11 school year)
- Florida End-of-Course Assessments (beginning in the 2010-11 school year)
- NAEP - National Assessment of Educational Progress
- Visit the Bureau of K-12 Assessment home
Bureau of Postsecondary and Certification Assessments
The postsecondary assessments focus on increasing the number of students ready for lower- and upper-division course work and highly qualified K-12 teachers and administrators, and currently include the following assessment programs:
- FTCE - Florida Teacher Certification Examinations
- FELE - Florida Educational Leadership Examination
- CPT - College Placement Test
- Basic Skills Exit Assessment
- Visit the Bureau of Postsecondary and Certification Assessment home
Success Measures
Beginning in the 2010-11 school year, the Florida Department of Education created the Success Measures website to better inform the public about changes to the wide variety of statewide assessment programs. Through the new Success Measures website parents, students, teachers and education stakeholders can learn about Florida’s various assessment programs including the critical transition from the long-standing Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test® (FCAT) to the newly created Florida FCAT 2.0 and Florida End-of-Course Assessments.