claim: fcat tests "account for less than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year."
author: gerard robinson
evidence_1: aug 1, 2012 ... after only a year as commissioner of education for florida, gerald robinson ...  mistakes involving the state's standardized test-based accountability system. ...  four teachers help students prepare for the upcoming fcat at miami ... for less  than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year.
evidence_2: jul 31, 2012 ... robinson said that the fcat tests “account for less than 1 percent of the  instructional time provided during the year.” this was a prepared ...
evidence_3: nov 16, 2018 ... in addition to applying a "truth-o-meter" to thousands of statements, ... he stated  annual standardized tests "account for less than 1 percent of the instructional  time provided during the year." the actual percentage of class time spent on  standardized tests annually is between 0.26 percent and 0.90 percent.
evidence_4: dents' decrease in learning are discussed and implications are provided. ...  testing has more of an effect on the content taught than on teaching practices ( ....  ranging from 1=much less to 7=much more): “if students didn't have to take the  fcat, ..... time, 42.6 percent of their writing instructional time, and 38.0 percent of  their ...
evidence_5: administrative data provided to us by the district and with survey data .... the 94  schools sampled more than once over the five-year span of the study, roughly  half (47 ... or less time on instructional tasks and we test the differences with  simple t-tests. .... formally evaluating teachers accounts for 1.8 percent of  principals' time.