Hoosier high schoolers will take the SAT starting in the spring of 2022, and scores will be used to evaluate schools' quality.

In a memo sent to superintendents late Friday, the Indiana Department of Education announced Indiana would seek "forgiveness" for required state tests, including the IREAD-3 and ILEARN.

Indiana's state tests have changed half a dozen times for students in the past decade, and with so much on the line, teachers, schools -- and families -- are trying to keep up.

Indiana teachers and schools will be shielded from penalties from last year's poor statewide standardized test scores.

A proposal to separate student test scores from teacher evaluations at the state level is making progress through the legislature.

Indiana University's Board of Trustees recently approved the policy change to make ACT or SAT scores optional. IU's nine individual campuses now must approve and implement their own "test optional" admissions practice.

Reading and math scores for students in Indiana have hovered just above the national average, but in 2019, reading scores fell nationally, and in Indiana.

Indiana high schoolers will continue taking the ISTEP+ as their final school assessment until its replaced by a nationally recognized college entrance exam like the SAT or ACT in 2022.

The results reveal just how much lower achievement rates on the test look compared to previous iterations of the states standardized exam.

Policymakers say they want to hold schools harmless for major drops in student achievement on the states new ILEARN test, after mounting pressure from school leaders and parents.