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Iowa testing program outlines changes to statewide assessments to align with revised standards
Summary
Iowa Testing Programs and the Department briefed the board on proposed changes to the Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress (ISASP): more reading and math items, multi‑stage adaptive math, and modest increases in testing time to better measure new standards.
Iowa Testing Programs presented proposed changes to the Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress (ISASP) intended to align the exam with recently revised state standards in English language arts and mathematics.
Department staff said the reading and language arts (writing/language) component would be unchanged for writing but that the reading blueprint will add passages and rebalance items across comprehension domains to match national benchmarks such as…
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