Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST)

On September 14, 2021, Governor DeSantis announced that the state will file Legislation to eliminate the common-core based, end-of-year Florida Statewide Assessment and create the new Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (F.A.S.T.). The FAST is a progress monitoring tool that will be administered three times per year to track your student’s progress in learning the Benchmarks of Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards throughout this school year. The first administration (PM1) of the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) Reading and Mathematics assessments will take place in September, 2022. Students' results from PM1 are for informational purposes only, and the school will provide students and parents with information about how to access the results after testing is completed.

FAST assessments are computer-adaptive tests taken on a computer or tablet. The questions get easier or more difficult depending on how the student responds, and each student will see different questions from a common item bank. Each test attempt (PM1, PM2, and PM3) will present 35–40 items that will cover the entire test “blueprint,” meaning students will encounter items representative of the standards within the subject or grade level. For more information on the test design, please visit https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/assessments/k-12-student-assessment/best/. If you would like to interact with the online testing platform or review FAST Reading and Mathematics sample items at home, sample test materials are available at https://flfast.org/families.html. 

If you have any questions related to this test administration, you may contact Lourdes Sotolongo at Lsotolongo@materlakes.org. For more information about the FAST program, please visit the portal at FLFAST.org.