2015 Utah Code
Title 53A - State System of Public Education
Chapter 1 - Administration of Public Education at the State Level
Part 6 - Achievement Tests
Section 605 - Analysis of results -- Staff professional development.

Effective 5/12/2015
53A-1-605. Analysis of results -- Staff professional development.

• (1) The State Board of Education, through the state superintendent of public instruction, shall develop a plan to analyze the results of the U-PASS scores for all grade levels and courses required under Section 53A-1-603.

• (2) The plan shall include components designed to:
  • (a) assist school districts and individual schools to use the results of the analysis in planning, evaluating, and enhancing programs; and
  • (b) identify schools not achieving state-established acceptable levels of student performance in order to assist those schools in raising their student performance levels.

• (3) The plan shall include provisions for statistical reporting of criterion-referenced or online computer adaptive test results at state, school district, school, and grade or course levels, and shall include actual levels of performance on tests.

• (4) Each local school board and charter school governing board shall provide for:
  • (a) evaluation of the U-PASS test results and use of the evaluations in setting goals and establishing programs; and
  • (b) a professional development program that provides teachers, principals, and other professional staff with the training required to successfully establish and maintain U-PASS.

Amended by Chapter 222, 2015 General Session