Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus (usually referred to simply as ISTEP or ISTEP+) was an annual No Child Left Behind test designed by the Indiana Department of Education to measure students' mastery of basic skills, particularly reading, writing, and mathematics.
All students in grades 3 through 8 and high school sophomores took the ISTEP+ each spring, with language arts and math covered in each test.
During the 1999–2001 school year the test was given both in its old fall time slot and its new spring location in the calendar.
[4] In the 2011 Spring ISTEP+, students in the 5th and 8th grades took their multiple choice ISTEP's on the computer via McGraw-Hill.
The bill will also give way for a 23-member panel to study and formulate an alternative No Child Left Behind test to ISTEP.