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IDEA Special Education - Technical Assistance and Dissemination

The program provides technical assistance and information on early intervention, educational, and transitional issues to parents, teachers, administrators, and others working with children with disabilities. Grants target various topics, disabilities, age ranges, and audiences.

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.
  • The program has established performance measures to assess the quality, relevance, and usefulness of Technical Assistance and Dissemination projects for parents, teachers and administrators. But, data is not available for one of these measures and the methodology for determining performance for other measures has not been consistent.
  • There has been no independent evaluation of the program's effectiveness. Such an evaluation is needed in order to gain information on how the program operates, its impact on parents, teachers, administrators, and others working with children with disabilities, and how it can be improved.
  • Since the assessment, the program has established two specific long-term measures dealing with implementation of scientifically-based practices by recipients of technical assistance and the extent to which demonstration projects identify effective models. But, the program still needs to collect data on these measures.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Collecting and using data on measures dealing with the quality, relevance, and usefulness of the program to produce consistent performance findings.
  • Working with the Institute of Education Sciences to develop a plan for evaluating special education programs.
  • Collecting performance data on long-term measures in areas critical to improving results (assessment, literacy, behavior, instructional strategies, early intervention, and inclusive practices).

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