# Presentation: 746559

## The Demonstration Projects To Ensure 

**Students With Disabilities Receive **
**A Quality Higher Education **
**Program’s Role in **
**the U.S. Department of Education’s**
**Culture of Accountability**
**April 8, 2008**

## NOTICE TO ALL APPLICANTS

- All grant recipients under this program are
- required to submit performance reports
- demonstrating substantial progress.

## There are two types of reports grantees

** ****are required to submit****:**
- * Annual performance reports
- * A final performance report

## Annual Performance Reports:  	

- Grantees provide data to demonstrate
- annual project success and impact.
- _Final Performance Reports_:
- Grantees provide data to demonstrate overall
- project success and impact.

## For further information regarding grantee reporting

**requirements**, please see 34 CFR 75.590 of  (EDGAR)
- the Education Department General Administrative Regulations.
- If you do not have a hard copy of EDGAR, please
- feel free to review the above noted citation online at:
- _[http://www.ed.gov/policy/fund/reg/edgarReg/edgar.html](http://www.ed.gov/policy/fund/reg/edgarReg/edgar.html)_
- (Please note that the most recent edition of EDGAR that is
- available at this time is dated June 23, 2005.)

## The Demonstration Projects To Ensure 

- Students With Disabilities Receive A
- Quality Higher Education Program’s
- role in the
- U.S. Department of Education’s
- Strategic Plan for
- Fiscal Years 2007-2012

## The Demonstration Projects To Ensure Students With 

- The Demonstration Projects To Ensure Students With
- Disabilities Receive A Quality Higher Education program’s
- purpose is consistent with the Department’s culture of
- accountability.
**Goal #3 of the Department of Education’s 2007-2012 **
**Strategic Plan**:  “Ensure the accessibility, affordability, and
- accountability of higher education, and better prepare
- students and adults for employment and future learning.”

## The performance indicators for this program are as follows:

**The performance indicators for this program are as follows:**
- The difference between the rate at which students with
- 	documented disabilities complete courses taught by
- 	faculty trained in project activities, and the rate at which
- 	other students complete those courses.
- The percentage of faculty trained in project activities that
- 	incorporate elements of training into their classroom
- 	teaching.

## federal/program fiscal administration requirements to Congress.

**WHY MUST GRANTEES COMPLETE THESE **
**REPORTS?**

- To demonstrate program success and adherence to
- federal/program fiscal administration requirements to Congress.

## WHAT FUNCTION DOES PERFORMANCE DATA

**WHAT FUNCTION DOES PERFORMANCE DATA**
**SERVE? **

- * Performance information guides ED’s budget
-   request for programs.
- * Ensures program implementation is focused on results.
- * Ensures success is measured by results achieved.

## IS A PROJECT EVALUATION PLAN NECESSARY

**IS A PROJECT EVALUATION PLAN NECESSARY**
**TO INCLUDE IN THIS APPLICATION**?

**YES.  **
- The evaluation plan should:
- * Include formative and summative measures;
- * Address the use of appropriate controls and
-  techniques that provide for independent evaluation; and

## IS A PROJECT EVALUATION PLAN NECESSARY

**IS A PROJECT EVALUATION PLAN NECESSARY**
**TO INCLUDE IN THIS APPLICATION? ****(continued)**

- * Shape the development of the project from the
-   beginning of the grant period and provide
-   benchmarks for monitoring of progress
-   and measurement of that progress throughout
-   the grant award period.
- Further discussion of the evaluation plan may be found in the “Instructions for the Project Narrative,” also located in the application booklet for this program.

## The most recent version of this program’s annual performance

- report can be viewed at:
- _[http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms/ed524b/_statusfill.pdf](http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms/ed524b/_statusfill.pdf)_
- _[http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms/ed524b/_coverfill.pdf](http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms/ed524b/_coverfill.pdf)_

## GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL!