Data Recipient(s)

• Utah Education Policy Center

Start and End Dates

Original starting date: 12/11/2024

Current end date: 08/31/2025

Agreement Type

Interagency Agreement

Description

Purpose

The purpose of this interagency agreement between the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) and Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC) is to align early literacy-oriented assessments to ensure transparency and predictive validity of the early literacy assessments with Utah’s 3rd grade RISE ELA assessment and conducting a study to examine the usefulness in determining the ability of the reading benchmark assessments (Acadience) to predict student proficiency on the RISE ELA reading comprehension sub score.

Legal Authority

34 CFR § 99.31(a)(6) and 20 U.S. Code § 1232g(b). This data sharing is permitted under the “Studies Exception” of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

Justification

• Utah State Board of Education Decision 

Approval

Original Agreement

Approved by: USBE Staff

Approval Date: 12/11/2024

Data

Data Type

Un-masked aggregate student data, Masked aggregate student data

Data Shared

Data collection for this case study will include qualitative interviews and/or focus groups with individuals who worked at sites between 2020-2025 (i.e., educators, administrators at the school and district level, board members, parents/community members), document analysis, and/or surveys (i.e., educators, administrators at the school and district level, board members, parents/community members). Students will not be engaged in data collection efforts. Using in vivo coding followed by focused or axial coding, categories and themes will be explored and presented. Portraits of each of the school sites included in the study will be provided. Individual school cases will be compared and contrasted as part of the case study to address the primary levers (e.g., vision, policy, leadership approaches, continuous improvement efforts) that contributed to recovery and improvements in student achievement in ELA, Mathematics, and Science. 

Agreements