INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Indiana education officials will be paying a company $43 million to create, implement and grade the new test that will replace the much-maligned ISTEP standardized exams.
State officials have approved a three-year contract with the Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research, picking it over four other bidders.
The company will be designing a new Indiana test starting with spring 2019 exams named ILEARN, or Indiana’s Learning Evaluation Readiness Network.
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The current ISTEP exam taken by nearly 500,000 students has faced years of complaints about the number of days students spend taking the test and months-long waits for exam results from other testing companies. Officials say ILEARN will be a computer adaptive test, with questions that change depending on whether a student answers a previous question correctly.
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