LANSING, MI (AP)-- State education officials have updated standardized testing for public school students across Michigan.
Details of the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, were announced Thursday.
The new tests known as M-STEP replace the 44-year-old Michigan Educational Assessment Program. They'll be used until a long-term testing system is found for spring 2016.
The Michigan Legislature ordered the new test beginning next spring. It's online with a paper-and-pencil option.
State law also requires writing tests for additional grades and more questions that test problem solving.
Michigan public school educators helped develop and write M-STEP content. It includes spring testing for grades 3 to 8 and a Michigan Merit Exam for 11th graders.
About 1,900 Michigan schools have performed pilot online testing to prepare for the new test.