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Program Assessment

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Tech-Prep Education State Grants

The program provides grants to States to expand programs that support two years of secondary education transitioning into two years of postsecondary education with the goal of increasing the number of students who receive degrees in technical fields.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • Evaluations show the program does not provide any advantage in terms of program outcomes for students: high school completion, postsecondary enrollment, and academic achievement. For example, the 2004 National Assessment of Vocational Education reported that Tech-Prep and non Tech-Prep students pursue college at comparable rates.
  • Program activities are redundant with allowable activities under the existing Vocational Education State Grant program. The law allows Vocational Education grantees to establish programs that support two years of secondary education transitioning into two years of postsecondary education.
  • The validity and reliability of program performance data are limited. The program statute gives States the flexibility to define performance measures resulting in States using varying performance measures that do not share a common standard for validity and reliability and cannot be aggregated.The Department will seek to implement the new statute in a manner that produces better data.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working with Congress to terminate this program.
  • Issuing regulations on implementation of performance measures systems under the new Perkins law.
  • Collecting and reporting better performance data to Congress and the public.

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