What types of evaluation activities will be expected of grantees?
Grantees are not required to conduct an independent evaluation of their projects. The three most important data collection activities required by the Department of Education of implementation grantees will be (a) collecting student data to compile annual performance reports, (b) describing ongoing program implementation, and (c) collecting three years of baseline data for the program evaluation. Annual performance reports will require grantees to produce numbers for several data elements that the Department believes are already contained in most data systems, and that are key for monitoring continuous improvement. Even so, some grantees will have to update existing student data systems so that they support a system of continuous improvement and provide the information needed for annual reports.
