Research
Weber School District encourages and supports conducting research that can be useful in improving District operational and instructional programs. All requests for research must be submitted by the applicant and approved through the Assessment, School Improvement & Research department before conducting any type of research in Weber School District.
The application for submitting your request to conduct research in the District is linked below. Upon completion of the application please send an email stating the application has been submitted along with any supporting documentation. Applicants will be informed whether their research has been approved or denied via correspondence from the Director of Assessment, School Improvement & Research.
Participation of District and School personnel is voluntary and Weber School District will not
Sincerely,
Dr. Bryan Becherini
Director of Assessment, School Improvement & Research
All researchers must agree to the following:
To adhere to the purpose and procedures of the project as approved by the district and to restrict the use of data gathered in cooperation with the district to this project.
To furnish the district with progress reports on request.
To provide the district with one copy of all publications, including dissertations, reports, articles, and papers describing the completed project.
To acknowledge the cooperation of the district in any published report of the project.
To give permission for the district to cite the ongoing or completed project in its own publications, with credit to the investigator(s).
To comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and amendments thereto.
To comply with the federal regulations for the protection of human subjects.
To report only group data and no information which can be traced directly or by inference to a specific student, family members of the student, or former school attended.
If student identification by name, social security number, or other means is necessary for bringing data together on a specific student, to remove this identification as soon as the data have been assembled, and under no condition permit this identification to be shared with other parties.
To destroy all materials gathered which contain personally identifiable information after the purposes for which the material was gathered have been completed.
To restrict any student surveys to current students in the researcher's class(es).
To contact school personnel once to initiate the project and once more to follow up/remind. No additional contact will be approved.
To adhere to all state board and district policies
Please fill out the form below.