Beginning with the 2022–23 school year, Florida’s statewide standardized assessments in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics will be aligned with the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.).
The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST), which includes VPK through grade 10 Reading and K through grade 8 Mathematics assessments, will be administered as progress monitoring assessments. Students will participate in these assessments three times per school year.
B.E.S.T. assessments that are not part of the FAST progress monitoring program include grades 4–10 Writing and end-of-course (EOC) assessments in Algebra 1 and Geometry.
