Effective 5/14/2019 53E-4-301.5. Legislative intent. (1) In enacting this part, the Legislature intends to determine the effectiveness of school districts and schools in assisting students to master the fundamental educational skills toward which instruction is directed. (2) The state board shall ensure that a statewide assessment provides the public, the Legislature, the state board, school […]
Effective 5/12/2020 53E-4-302. Statewide assessments — Duties of the state board. (1) The state board shall: (a) require the state superintendent to: (i) submit and recommend statewide assessments to the state board for adoption by the state board; and (ii) distribute the statewide assessments adopted by the state board to a school district or charter […]
Effective 5/5/2021 53E-4-303. Utah standards assessments — Administration — Review committee. (1) As used in this section, “computer adaptive assessment” means an assessment that measures the range of a student’s ability by adapting to the student’s responses, selecting more difficult or less difficult questions based on the student’s responses. (2) The state board shall: (a) […]
Effective 5/14/2019 53E-4-304. High school assessments. (1) The state board shall adopt a high school assessment that: (a) is predictive of a student’s college readiness as measured by the college readiness assessment described in Section 53E-4-305; and (b) provides a growth score for a student from grade 9 to 10. (2) A school district or […]
Effective 5/14/2019 53E-4-305. College readiness assessments. (1) The Legislature recognizes the need for the state board to develop and implement standards and assessment processes to ensure that student progress is measured and that LEA governing boards and school personnel are accountable. (2) The state board shall adopt a college readiness assessment for secondary students that: […]
Effective 5/4/2022 53E-4-307. Benchmark assessments in reading — Report to parent. (1) As used in this section: (a) “Competency” means a demonstrable acquisition of a specified knowledge, skill, or ability that has been organized into a hierarchical arrangement leading to higher levels of knowledge, skill, or ability. (b) “Diagnostic assessment” means an assessment that measures […]
Effective 7/1/2020 53E-4-307.5. Mathematics benchmark assessment. (1) As used in this section, “early mathematics benchmark assessment” or “benchmark assessment” means a standardized assessment to measure the acquisition of mathematics skills in kindergarten and grades 1 through 3 that includes predictive indicators of academic achievement based on measures of early mathematics, computation, and problem solving. (2) […]
Effective 7/1/2022 53E-4-308. Unique student identifier — Coordination of higher education and public education information technology systems — Coordination of preschool and public education information technology systems. (1) As used in this section, “unique student identifier” means an alphanumeric code assigned to each public education student for identification purposes, which: (a) is not assigned to […]
Effective 5/14/2019 53E-4-309. Grade level specification change. (1) The state board may change a grade level specification for the administration of specific assessments under this part to a different grade level specification or a competency-based specification if the specification is more consistent with patterns of school organization. (2) (a) If the state board changes a […]
Effective 5/14/2019 53E-4-310. Scoring — Reports of results. (1) For a statewide assessment that requires the use of a student answer sheet, a local school board or charter school governing board shall submit all answer sheets on a per-school and per-class basis to the state superintendent for scoring unless the assessment requires scoring by a […]
Effective 5/5/2021 53E-4-311. Analysis of results — Staff professional development. (1) The state board, through the state superintendent, shall develop an online data reporting tool to analyze the results of statewide assessments. (2) The online data reporting tool shall include components designed to: (a) assist school districts and individual schools to use the results of […]
Effective 5/14/2019 53E-4-312. Preparation for tests. (1) School district employees may not conduct any specific instruction or preparation of students that would be a breach of testing ethics, such as the teaching of specific test questions. (2) School district employees who administer the test shall follow the standardization procedures in the test administration manual for […]
Effective 1/24/2018 53E-4-313. Construction of part. Nothing in this part shall be construed to mean or represented to require that graduation from a high school or promotion to another grade is in any way dependent upon successful performance of any test administered as a part of the testing program established under this part. Renumbered and […]
Effective 5/4/2022 53E-4-314. School readiness assessment. (1) As used in this section: (a) “School readiness assessment” means a preschool entry and exit profile that measures literacy, numeracy, and lifelong learning practices developed in a student. (b) “School readiness program” means a preschool program: (i) in which a student participates in the year before the student […]
Effective 4/22/2020 53E-4-315. Waiver of requirement to administer certain assessments. (1) A statutory requirement to administer an assessment with which an LEA or the state board has not fully complied at the time of statewide school closures beginning on March 16, 2020, is waived for the 2019-20 school year. (2) Nothing in this section prohibits […]
