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Officials say Iowa student scores have dropped in statewide reading and math tests.The Des Moines Register reports that the percentage of Iowa fourth-graders on grade level in reading fell to 74.8 ...

It's still unclear which statewide assessments students will take next school year, despite an administrative law judge's decision last week that the Iowa Department of Education followed correct ...

Iowa is one of 22 governing states in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, a group that is developing a set of online tests that could eventually be used nationwide.

The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and Iowa Tests of Educational Development will have several changes in the 2011-12 ... which will be referred to as the Iowa Assessments,” said Stephen Dunbar, ...

WATERLOO, Iowa --- Standardized test scores have dropped in the area and across the state as schools adjust to the new, more rigorous annual assessments students took for the first ...

But eastern Iowa school administrators say districts need to take advantage of a year’s delay to get ready for the big change. A new computer-based standardized test in Iowa classrooms won’t ...

Welch said although the Iowa assessment tests are required to be given in grades 3rd through 8th and in 11th grade, there are several tests available for school districts to use to determine ...

This is "Iowa's one state assessment that all school districts and state-accredited nonpublic schools administer," a spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Education told News 8.

Currently, Iowa requires schools to administer the Iowa Assessments every year. Because those tests are developed by the University of Iowa, we get them at cost: about $4.25 per student.