diff --git a/tests/st/networks/models/resnet50/src/dataset.py b/tests/st/networks/models/resnet50/src/dataset.py
index 799b1fed748..0d019c02790 100755
--- a/tests/st/networks/models/resnet50/src/dataset.py
+++ b/tests/st/networks/models/resnet50/src/dataset.py
@@ -38,10 +38,14 @@ def create_dataset(dataset_path, do_train, repeat_num=1, batch_size=32):
 
     device_num = int(os.getenv("RANK_SIZE"))
     rank_id = int(os.getenv("RANK_ID"))
-    if device_num == 1:
-        data_set = ds.ImageFolderDataset(dataset_path, num_parallel_workers=8, shuffle=True)
+    if do_train:
+        if device_num == 1:
+            data_set = ds.ImageFolderDataset(dataset_path, num_parallel_workers=8, shuffle=True)
+        else:
+            data_set = ds.ImageFolderDataset(dataset_path, num_parallel_workers=8, shuffle=True,
+                                             num_shards=device_num, shard_id=rank_id)
     else:
-        data_set = ds.ImageFolderDataset(dataset_path, num_parallel_workers=8, shuffle=True,
+        data_set = ds.ImageFolderDataset(dataset_path, num_parallel_workers=8, shuffle=False,
                                          num_shards=device_num, shard_id=rank_id)
 
     image_size = 224