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 ...

Teachers also said there's a surprising amount of money spent not only on testing, but also on how tests are chosen. They say testing companies put teachers and administrators in expensive hotels and ...

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 ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Members of the Fort Wayne Community school board discussed ISTEP testing Monday night. A presentation covered the preparations for the upcoming testing session, set to begin on ...

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 ...

The first round of spring ISTEP-plus testing in more than a decade began last week. It is the second time this school year that students will take the exam, which covers grade-level standards in ...

It was another smooth day of ISTEP testing for students across the state Thursday as schools once again cut their testing sessions in half. Now, teachers and administrators are working to create a new ...

While ISTEP testing interruptions affected more students than originally reported, there is no evidence of widespread harm to the vast majority of scores, an Indiana Department of Education-sponsored ...