Assessment to Achievement: Impacting Learning and Growth in Utah Schools - Final Impact Report

In collaboration with the Utah State Board of Education and Ed Direction, a part of MGT of America, LLC, the Utah Education Policy Center evaluated the relationship between schools’ level of participation in the Assessment to Achievement (A2A) project and the end-of-year state achievement test scores of their students.

Controlling for student demographic characteristics, our statistical analysis indicated that students at schools with higher levels of A2A implementation tended to score higher on achievement tests than students at schools with lower levels of A2A implementation.

Although the size of this difference corresponds to an effect somewhere between “small” and “medium” in the context of education interventions (d = 0.05; Kraft, 2020), the result was statistically significant and obtained using two separate measures of A2A implementation, the data use survey and the site visit measures for the 2019-20 through 2021-22 school years.

 

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