Parents seeking student scores should contact their local school for information about accessing their student's results. More information on understanding ISTEP+ scores can be found on the ISTEP+ Interpretive Guide, available through the Resources on the ISTEP+ Portal.
The Indiana Senate approved a bill Tuesday setting guidelines for ILEARN, a new standardized test that will replace the troubled ISTEP+ exam in 2019. The proposal would require the test, for students in grades 3-8, be given on a computer and allow Indiana scores to be compared with scores nationally.
Students who don't pass ISTEP can instead receive a waiver after retaking it every year or fulfill their diploma requirements by completing a graduation pathway, which gives students options such as taking dual credit courses or earning an industry-recognized certification.
There is a light at the end of Indiana's nearly three-decade long ISTEP tunnel and it's called ILEARN. That's right – the high-stakes, end-of-year exams are set to be replaced by what state education officials are promising will be a sleeker, newer model of standardized test.
On March 22, 2016, Mike Pence, then governor of Indiana, signed the House Enrolled Act 1395 at Eagle Elementary School in Zionsville, Indiana, which has the effect of eliminating ISTEP by July 1, 2017.
ISTEP, or Indiana State Testing for Educational Progress, was created by an act of the legislature in 1987 and now includes math and English tests administered annually in grades 3 to 8. ISTEP science tests are given in fourth and sixth grade, and social studies tests are given in grades five and seven.
Students must receive a score of 271 or greater for Mathematics and 244 or greater for English/Language Arts in order to pass the assessment and use these test scores to fulfill graduation requirements.
The new graduation examination requirement for students who entered high school in 2015-16 (graduating class of 2019) and after is to take and pass the Grade 10 ISTEP+ in English/Language Arts and Mathematics.
The purpose of the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus (ISTEP+) Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress Plus (ISTEP+) program is to measure student achievement in the subject areas of English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grades 4, 6 and 10), and Social Studies (Grades 5 and 7).
If your child does not pass they have an opportunity to either retake at the end of the school year or go to summer school and retake the test. If your child does not pass the second time they can move on to fourth grade and receive third grade reading instruction.
Mathematics, ELA, Science and Biology assessments each consist of a computer-adaptive test (CAT) segment and a performance task (PT) segment. The ILEARN Social Studies assessment and U.S. Government End-of-Course Assessment (ECA) each consist of a single fixed-form test segment.
ILEARN is a computer-adaptive test (CAT) for Mathematics and English/Language Arts. CATs individualize the test for students based on their responses to previous questions or sets of questions.
ILEARN is Indiana's online computer-adaptive assessment designed to measure your child's proficiency of the Indiana Academic Standards for Grades 3-8, Biology, and U.S. Government. ILEARN fulfills both state and federal accountability requirements and is Indiana's summative accountability assessment.
Overall student results in ILEARN are reported as four-digit scale scores. The overall scale scores for Indiana students align with the four proficiency levels (Below Proficiency, Approaching Proficiency, At Proficiency, and Above Proficiency).
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All student results will reflect any submitted rescore requests and be “final” when the Parent Portal reopens on July 26, the letter states.
The window for parents to request a rescore is now through June 22. A rescore can be requested through the Indiana Department of Education ISTEP+ Parent Portal. Rescore requests will not be accepted after June 22.
Outcomes of rescores can influence a school’s high-stakes A-F school accountability rating . ISTEP scores are publicly released around September, according to IDOE spokesman Adam Baker, which coincides with school accountability. For assistance or a new claim code, the IDOE letter advises parents to contact their child’s school.