ISTEP Testing Moves To The Spring

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(INDIANAPOLIS) - The ISTEP exam is moving to the spring.

Governor Daniels has argued for a spring ISTEP since taking office. He'd met resistance from State School Superintendent Suellen Reed, who's contended teachers need a baseline at the start of the year, and that a spring test would cost more.

But Reed joined Daniels in announcing starting next year, ISTEP will be given in March. She says there'll be diagnostic tests throughout the year.

Daniels says the contract with CTB-McGraw-Hill will actually cost eight-million dollars less over four years, though some of that savings will be pumped into the diagnostic tests.

He says a spring test will be a better measure of what students have learned.

The change will also enable Indiana to add a social studies test to ISTEP for the first time. That test will be given to fourth, sixth and eighth-graders.

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