The state awarded a three-year, $43.4 million contract to a nonprofit assessment and research company Monday to design the replacement of the ISTEP exam.
The Indiana Department of Education announced American Institutes for Research, a Washington, D.C.-based company, was chosen among proposals from five vendors.
The company will create the new ILEARN exam for students in grades three through eight and a new version of the third-grade reading test called IRead.
The new tests will be given during the 2018-2019 school year.
The ILEARN will be a computer adaptive test for English language arts and mathematics for grades three through eight.
That means the test will be completely online. The test questions will change
depending on whether a student gets the current question right or wrong.
This better assesses a student’s abilities, state officials says.
This report will be updated.
