WGU D019 DATA LITERACY AND EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICES AFM2 TASK 1 (Data Analysis) 2025/2026 UPDATED PASSED WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY
A – Describe an educational problem relevant to your educational setting by doing the
following:
1. Discuss an educational problem that can be investigated by researching and analyzing
existing data.
Evergreen Middle School in Central Valley School District students scored pro昀椀cient or above at a
rate of 54% for ELA and 48.9% for Math. This is signi昀椀cantly higher than the state middle school
rates at 48.2% and 35.3% respectively. It is also higher than the district middle school pro昀椀ciency
rates of 48.6% for ELA and 37.5% for math. However, students from low-income families at
Evergreen scored pro昀椀cient or better at much lower rates, 32.5% for ELA and 27.8% for math. This
distinction is even more stark when compared to non-low income Evergreen students, 65.1% for
ELA and 59.8% for math. Comparatively, students at North Pines Middle School achieved pro昀椀cient
scores at rates of 27.1% for ELA and 23.6% for Math with low-income students at 23.8% and 19.3%
respectively and non-low income students at 35.8% and 35.1% respectively. North Pines has the
highest percentage of low-income students in the Central Valley School District.
All data for state assessments at the school, district, and state level are from the Washington O昀昀ice
of Superintendent of Public Instruction website
(https://washingtonstatereportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/).
2. Describe the educational setting or context relative to the problem discussed in part A1.
a. Describe the participant group that is relevant to the problem.
Central Valley School District is in Spokane Valley, WA, a city with a population of just over 107,000
in Eastern Washington. In 2022-2023, Central Valley School District had 14,726 students. Districtwide, 52.1% of middle school students were considered low income. Evergreen Middle School is