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(UNDATED) - National education leaders are cautioning Indiana to think through any attempt to replace ISTEP with a new test.
Legislators have been reviewing whether switching to an off-the-shelf test would reduce the time students have to spend on exams.
The Senate passed a bill this year to dump the ISTEP and find a shorter test, but the House called for further study.
Michael Cohen is president of the Washington testing-reform consulting group Achieve, which worked with Indiana on its academic standards and on early versions of ISTEP.
He says if Indiana plans to continue using ISTEP as a measure of school accountability, it's critical that the test be in sync with the state's standards.
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