Students in grades three through eight take ISTEP-Plus, and the test has been revised to comply with new Indiana state standards. Just as it was last year, there will be two ISTEP testing windows — ...

For the second day in a row, a computer failure shut down the state's ISTEP testing. The problems were so severe that the state superintendent ordered all schools to stop testing just before noon.

Indiana students haven’t begun answering a single question on the next round of the standardized ISTEP exam, and already policymakers are asking whether the technology used to administer the test is ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A week of political battle between the Republican governor and the Democratic state school superintendent has ended with Glenda Ritz and Mike Pence in agreement on a shorter ...

The standardized test in Indiana is called ISTEP-Plus. The high-stakes test is given annually to students in third through eighth grade. At the high school level, students must pass the end-of-course ...

ISTEP preparations are underway and this time around school corporations are hoping all the little bugs have been worked out. You probably remember last year the online system froze. Some students had ...

Feb. 26 through March 1 and March 5 mark the dates of the ISTEP (Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress) testing for Jennings County High School students. The mandated standardized test is ...

HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WANE) The State Board of Education and superintendents are registering their concerns with the Department of Education about ISTEP testing. Monday, Governor Pence signed an executive ...

This spring was supposed to be the final administration of Indiana's much maligned standardized test, ISTEP. Now, it looks like the test will hang around for another two years. After years of talk, ...

Later this month, the company behind this spring’s abysmal online administration of ISTEP testing for 27,000 Hoosier schoolchildren is being called to the principal’s office. In this case, the ...

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AUBURN, Ind. (WANE) – A father in DeKalb County says he’s making his son stay home until the testing is over. He told NewsChannel 15 ISTEP is a flawed high stakes test that has too much money attached ...