Sophomores will take ISTEP this school year. ISTEP Experience can help students prepare.

Parents of Penn sophomores, new this year, 10th graders will be required to take ISTEP! The Indiana Department of Education has released the testing windows for ISTEP+ for the 2015-2016 school year. ISTEP will begin in late February. In most cases, part 1 of ISTEP will be done with paper/pencil and Part 2 will be done online.

New this year:  In preparation for 2016 ISTEP+, the IDOE has now made ISTEP+ “Experience” available through Pearson, allowing students and parents to experience various technology-enhanced item types that will appear on the ISTEP+ Part 2 assessment as often as they like from home, at school, or on mobile devices. “Experience” is presented via the Pearson online platform (TestNav 8) that will be used for ISTEP+ online testing, as well as IREAD-3 online testing. P-H-M families can access ISTEP+ “Experience” through the P-H-M District website, as well as through the link provided on the RESOURCES menu of every school website.

Indiana Statewide Testing of Educational Progress Plus (ISTEP+ ) Grades 3-8, and 10

                                                                      Window Begins                                         Window Ends

ISTEP+ Part 1 – paper/pencil                        February 29, 2016                                       March 11, 2016
(Applied Skills)

ISTEP+ Part 2 – online                                  April 18, 2016                                               May 6, 2016
(Multiple-choice & Technology-enhanced items)

For more information on the state assessment testing windows, please visit the Indiana Department of Education website, www.doe.in.gov/assessment.