The IPT testing system comprises thousands of items developed for specific grade levels and language domains and correlated to state academic and ELD standards.


Ballard & Tighe has a 27-year history of developing innovative testing and assessment products that respond to our customers’ current needs and challenges. We continue this tradition with the new IPT testing system.

To help states and schools quickly and cost-effectively address NCLB requirements, we have invested our resources to develop a powerful, flexible, multi-relational item base system. Based on extensive scientific research, conducted and gathered by recognized experts in the language assessment and psychometrics fields, the IPT item base comprises thousands of items developed for specific grade levels and language domains and correlated to state academic and ELD standards. The IPT item base stores these multiple levels of data ready for use in the IPT battery of tests.