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Curriculum Dig: IFCs and FCAT 2.0 Test Item Specs for SLPs. Donna Marquis-Cox, Ed.D ., CCC/SLP FDLRS/Sarasota Fall 2011. Curriculum Dig. IFC – defined The instructional focus calendar includes the benchmarks that are most important to teach and a time frame in which to teach them.
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Curriculum Dig: IFCs and FCAT 2.0 Test Item Specs for SLPs Donna Marquis-Cox, Ed.D., CCC/SLP FDLRS/Sarasota Fall 2011
Curriculum Dig • IFC – defined • The instructional focus calendar includes the benchmarks that are most important to teach and a time frame in which to teach them.
Curriculum Dig • Look at the IFC for Week 8. • Find the correlative weeks for the grade levels above and below. • How are they the same? different? • Is there anything that is taught at one level that is not taught at the others?
Curriculum Dig • FCAT Test Item Specifications – defined • Describes the way in which the content was chosen, the parameters for ease and difficulty, and examples of what is included and exempted from question construction.
Curriculum Dig • Look at the Criteria for Selecting FCAT 2.0 Reading Texts • Find % Literary-Information Texts • Types of Literary-Informational Texts • Length of Texts • Cognitive Complexity – how do they differ? • Low • Moderate • High
Curriculum Dig • Look at the Criteria for Selecting FCAT 2.0 Reading Texts • Cognitive Complexity – what percent of questions are at each level of complexity?
Reporting Category 1: Vocabulary • How is vocabulary tested?
Reporting Category 2: Rdg Application • How do the expectations differ from grade to grade?
Reporting Category 3: Literary Analysis • What is expected in Literary Analysis?
Reporting Category 4: InfoText • What are students expected to do in this section?