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State board rejects ban on measuring students' nonacademic "skills" but orders review of data backpack elements
Summary
The Utah State Board of Education rejected a motion to prohibit the board from measuring students’ nonacademic knowledge, skills and dispositions but voted to ask staff to work with the legislature to review and update the statutory list of elements required in the student achievement backpack.
The Utah State Board of Education voted down a proposal to bar the board from measuring students’ nonacademic knowledge, skills and dispositions but approved a separate request that staff work with the Legislature to review and update what the code requires in the student achievement backpack.
The failed motion, introduced by Member Boggess, asked staff to “work with the legislature to amend section 53-3-511 to prohibit the board from measuring student nonacademic knowledge, skills, and dispositions as part of the board’s student achievement backpack data collection system.” Member Boggess said, "I don't think we should be measuring or storing non academic data in centralized databases." The motion failed on a recorded voice vote the board announced as 7 in favor and 6 opposed.
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