Talk:Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus

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Text and/or other creative content from ISTEP was copied or moved into Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus with [469258993 this edit]. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

My edits[edit]

Well, let's deconstruct my edit, which was reverted by PresidentMan:

expand NCLB to No Child Left Behind - a clear following of the MOS entry on acronyms
references raw tag to {{Reflist}} - perhaps a little unnecessary, but using a template does have its advantages. Doesn't do any harm.
change "|author=Education, Indiana Department of" to "|publisher=Indiana Department of Education" - seems sensible to me; displays in a more logical order without the comma so easier to read; anyhow, the department didn't actually author the source anyway, they just published it. Someone authored it.
remove redundant "language" and "format" parameters, which are absolutely pointless. We, on the English language language Wikipedia, assume that the language is going to be English and their is no reason I can see for needing the clutter the reference by saying it again. Ditto with the HTML. Indeed, that's the "official" advice handed out in the documentation of {{Cite web}} - "(don't specify "English" as this is the default)" and "HTML implied if not specified".

So that's why I made the edit, but I would like to hear why it needed to be reverted. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 15:56, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge[edit]

This article should be merged with and redirected to ISTEP. I propose we do so. Charles Edward (Talk) 12:14, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, merge to here. Johnbod (talk) 16:03, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with merging. ~~Don't know which article should become the "main" article though.~~ - Purplewowies (talk) 03:44, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to here. - Purplewowies (talk) 03:52, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I believe this merge could be done boldly. I'm thinking of doing it myself right now. - Purplewowies (talk) 03:59, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious[edit]

The two sentences marked with the dubious tag have conflicting information on which grades take which tests. - Purplewowies (talk) 08:26, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed - Purplewowies (talk) 08:32, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ISTEP History[edit]

The way this article is written it sounds like ISTEP is a recent development, however searching online finds that it was created in 1987. However even before that I remember taking some standardized test when I was in 3rd grade in 1984-1985. Anyone know what similar test was used in Indiana prior to 1987? -- Deltaray3 (talk) 03:39, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]