The State Program Office within the Ohio Department of Education will conduct quarterly and aCtrl-Enterual evaluations of the effectiveness of adult education and literacy activities that are based primarily on the State's estimated levels of performance required by Section 212 of the Act. Local providers will be required to submit, in a format established by the State, such performance progress and final reports that enable the State Program Office to determine the extent to which estimated levels of performance were achieved.
Areas to be included in these evaluations will include, but may not be limited to:
(1) demonstrated improvements in literacy skill levels in reading, writing, and speaking the English language, numeracy, problem solving, English language acquisition, and other literacy skills;
(2) placement in, retention in, or completion of postsecondary education, training, unsubsidized employment or career advancement:
(3) receipt of a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent, the Ohio High School Equivalence Diploma;
(4) progress in meeting target standards of Ohio's adopted Indicators of Program Quality.
In addition, the State will continue to schedule and conduct a selected number of on-site performance, quality, and improvement reviews for the purposes of identifying performance progress, quality strengths, outstanding needs, and identifying strategies for program improvement.
To the extent that sampling techniques and procedures would be employed in State and local evaluations, such techniques will conform with specifications identified in the ACtrl-Enterual Performance Report for Adult Education that is issued by the U.S. Department of Education with approval of the Office of Management and Budget.
Additional evaluation activities anticipated to be proposed as a part of the full State Plan for the period July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2004, are expected to include guided self-evaluation for Title II and other Workforce Investment Act partners, selected follow-up studies of participants served with support from one or more WIA Titles at selected time intervals, effectiveness of teacher training activities, and the extent to which selected populations were served.
4.1 Quarterly and ACtrl-Enterual Evaluations
