- (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and in the manner provided in section 6 of this chapter, the state board is responsible for determining the appropriate subjects, grades, and format of a statewide assessment.
- (b) For each school year beginning after June 30, 2018, and except as provided in section 11 of this chapter, the statewide assessment must be administered to all full-time students attending a school corporation, charter school, state accredited nonpublic school, or eligible school (as defined in IC 20-51-1-4.7 ) in grades subject to the statewide assessment required by federal law and in a manner prescribed by the state board.
(c) Subject matter tested on the statewide assessment as determined by the state board under subsection (a) must, at a minimum, do the following:
(1) Comply with requirements established under federal law with:
- (A) math and English/language arts assessed yearly in grades 3 through 8, and at least once in grades 9 through 12; and
- (B) science assessed at least once in grades 3 through 5, grades 6 through 9, and grades 10 through 12.
- (2) Require that United States history or United States government be assessed at least once in grades 5 or 8.
(d) For each school year beginning after June 30, 2018, a high school shall administer as part of the statewide assessment end of course assessments in at least the areas of:
- (1) English/language arts;
- (2) science; and
- (3) algebra I.
- (e) Students must be eligible to take the end of course assessments described in subsection (d) upon completion of the corresponding course regardless of the student's current grade level.
(f) The statewide assessment:
- (1) may not use technology that may negatively influence the ability to measure a student's mastery of material or a particular academic standard being tested; and
- (2) may use a technology enhanced test question only when the technology enhanced test question is the best way to measure the academic standard being tested.
As added by P.L.242-2017, SEC.41.