JACKSONVILLE,
Fla., May 17, 2007 --The Florida Department of
Education announced today the reading
and mathematics Florida Comprehensive Assessment
Test (FCAT) Norm-Referenced Test (NRT) scores for
third through 10th grade. Each year, a
portion of the FCAT includes a national NRT, which
is used to measure how Florida students are
performing compared to students nationally. In each
grade, Duval County Public School students scored
better than the national average score of 50.
The most
common scores reported for the NRT are national
percentile ranks. These scores tell how a student
ranked when compared to a national comparison
sample. The scores range from the first percentile
to the 99th percentile, with the average
student’s score at the 50th percentile.
