About the Survey
Students to be Surveyed
All students, aged 14 and older, reported by LEAs (traditional school
districts and charter schools) to have received special education
services, who exited the school system during the school year or who
were expected to return to school that Fall but did not. All leavers
in all LEAs will be surveyed annually.
Data Source
Exit data, as submitted to USOE by Local Educational Agencies (LEAs).
Data include: student name; student birth date; student or parent
telephone number; student disability based on special education eligibility;
student ethnicity; and type of exit (graduated with diploma, reached
maximum age, dropped out). Students who dropped out will include those
who were expected to return to school for the current year but did
not. USOE will provide TAESE (Technical Assistance for Excellence
in Special Education) a data-base containing the name, birth date,
last known telephone number, disability (based on special education
disability eligibility), ethnicity, LEA, and type of exit for each
student to be contacted.
Data Collection System
Using an on-line website, the USOE-developed telephone interview survey
will be administered to every available student, 14 years of age and
older, who exited the school system through graduation with a diploma,
reaching maximum age, dropping out during the previous school year,
or who were expected to return to school but did not for the current
school year.
TAESE will provide interviewers through a Call Center that will contact these
former students with a telephone interview.
Interview data will be collected between June and September. The
Call Center will attempt to contact a representative sample of students
who exited during the previous school year (approximately 1600 students).
Data analysis and reporting will be submitted to the USOE by December and will
include:
- Aggregated statewide data
- Disaggregated LEA data
- Disaggregated LEA data, aggregating LEAs with small numbers of students exiting during previous year (N size to be determined)
- Final report will contain:
- Description of data collection procedures, including selection and training of surveyors
- Data reported in table and narrative form organized in following order:
- Employment
- Type of exit
- Disability category
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Education
- Type of exit
- Disability category
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Living Arrangements
- Type of exit
- Disability category
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Agency Involvement
- Type of exit
- Disability category
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Data reported in three sections
- State aggregate
- LEA disaggregate
- LEA disaggregate, aggregating LEAs with fewer than 30 students exiting previous year
- Accountability for contacts/attempts to contact, including:
- Number of surveys completed
- With student
- With parent or other family member
- Number of contacts attempted but not completed
- Reasons for non-completion of contact
- Contact criteria:
- Surveyors will conduct interview with student if possible.
- If student is under age 18, surveyor will conduct interview with student and parent on phone, or if that is not possible, with parent/guardian.
- Surveyors will make a maximum of three attempts to contact student.
- Surveyor will follow written procedures for introduction of survey.
- Surveyor will record reason for incomplete survey.
- Survey responses will be entered into database.
Timelines | Activities |
October - December |
Final Reports checked/ finalized from recent survey data and
submitted to USOE; Contractor works with Web Company to personalize
and update web features for next summer’s survey. |
January |
USOE provides the needed student demographic and contact information
to the website for the upcoming survey. |
February - May |
The Contractor tests student data and corresponds with USOE
for LEA coordination for upcoming survey. |
June - September |
Former students are contacted for a telephone interview; interview
data is entered directly into the Utah Outcomes website |
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