RULE NO: RULE TITLE
6A-4.0021: Florida Teacher Certification Examinations
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The purpose of this proposed rule development is to adopt the Thirteenth Edition of the FTCE Competencies and Skills for the Florida Teacher Certification Examinations to implement changes to the subject area competencies and skills. The rule also will amend the score verification process to limit the review of items by examinees to those items they answered incorrectly and to allow these score verification sessions to be held in various locations statewide. Effective dates for these changes will be specified in the rule amendment. With these changes, selected examinations will be updated to reflect new competencies and skills and examinees will have greater access to score verification sessions statewide.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Florida Teacher Certification Examinations.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 1012.56(8) FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 1012.56(8) FS.
IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
TIME AND DATE: March 24, 2008, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon
PLACE: Florida Department of Education, 1703/07 Turlington Building, 325 West Gaines Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Dr. Mike Jones, Program Director, Postsecondary Assessment, Office of Assessment and School Performance, Accountability, Research, and Measurement, 325 W. Gaines Street, Suite 414, Tallahassee, FL. 32399, (850)245-5013

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE.