Indianapolis Public Schools briefly halted online ISTEP+ testing Monday morning after a new “network issue” disrupted the exams. But an update on the testing company’s website — as of 12:30 Eastern — says the issue “has been resolved,” and IPS administrators have given the go-ahead for schools to resume testing, district spokesperson John Althardt tells StateImpact.
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States will have to learn from the problems Indiana students faced Monday and Tuesday as online testing rollout continues, Duncan said.
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Two separate server issues caused this week’s failures with Indiana’s online tests.
Members of the executive panel that oversees Indiana education echoed the frustrations of teachers and local school officials after two straight days of widespread problems for students taking ISTEP+ exams online. State superintendent Glenda Ritz kicked off the State Board of Education’s study session Wednesday with discussion of the issues as schools statewide were resuming testing, [...]
Indiana education officials have given the go-ahead for testing to resume Wednesday, but are asking schools to cut their testing loads in half.
Monday and Tuesday, in a word? “Travesty,” blogs education software engineer Brian Bennett.
Server errors at testing company CBT/McGraw Hill have grounded ISTEP+ testing in Indiana for the second straight day. But if schools reduce testing loads, state officials say testing can resume Wednesday.
“School testing came to a halt statewide early Monday because the CTB/McGraw-Hill testing company servers in New Jersey crashed around 9 a.m., state education officials said,” a newspaper wrote Monday morning. It wasn’t an Indiana paper writing this, though — it’s an Oklahoma paper, the Tulsa World: In the last week of Oklahoma’s April testing [...]
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