A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

For the FYs 1993-1994 report, there is information on 154 programs administered by the Department during those years. The report gives available information on the purpose, funding, target population, services, administration, effectiveness, management improvement strategies, and sources of information for those programs. It briefly describes planned studies.

The Overview for postsecondary education reviews the contribution of the Department's programs in ensuring access to postsecondary education and ensuring quality at postsecondary institutions participating in those programs. The Overview for vocational and adult education discusses purposes, funding, governance, services, and outcomes of the Department's major programs in those areas.

Program chapters have a subsection on program performance indicators where such information was available. This subsection responds to the need for information on how the Department's programs are helping to implement the National Goals for education, and to the future reporting requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. The Department is systematically developing performance indicators for its programs as part of its Strategic Plan which describe currently available performance measures. Future editions of this report will contain performance indicators, and data from performance measurement based on those indicators, for an increasing number of the Department's programs.

As in past editions, this report summarizes evaluation findings on what helps program participants to increase their achievement or improve their performance. We hope that evaluation findings and management improvements will contribute to making Federal programs work even better.

I welcome your suggestions on making the Biennial Evaluation Report more useful in your work.

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