---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 75.110"
title: "34"
number: "75.110"
heading: "Information regarding performance measurement."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/75.110"
---

# §75.110. Information regarding performance measurement.

- (a) The Secretary may establish, in an application notice for a competition, one or more program performance measurement requirements, including requirements for performance measures, baseline data, or performance targets, and a requirement that applicants propose in their applications one or more of their own project-specific performance measures, baseline data, or performance targets and ensure that the applicant's project-specific performance measurement plan would, if well implemented, yield quality data.
- (b) If the application notice establishes program performance measurement requirements, the applicant must also describe in the application—
  - (1)
    - (i) The data collection and reporting methods the applicant would use and why those methods are likely to yield reliable, valid, and meaningful performance data; and
    - (ii) If the Secretary requires applicants to collect data after the substantive work of a project is complete in order to measure progress toward attaining certain performance targets, the data-collection and reporting methods the applicant would use during the post-performance period and why those methods are likely to yield quality data.
  - (2) The applicant's capacity to collect and report the quality of the performance data, as evidenced by quality data collection, analysis, and reporting in other projects or research.
- (c) If an application notice requires applicants to propose project-specific performance measures, baseline data, or performance targets, the application must include the following, as required by the application notice:
  - (1) **Project-specific performance measures.** How each proposed project-specific performance measure would: accurately measure the performance of the project; be consistent with the program performance measures established under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section; and be used to inform continuous improvement of the project.
  - (2) **Baseline data.**
    - (i) Why each proposed baseline is valid and reliable, including an assessment of the quality data used to establish the baseline; or
    - (ii) If the applicant has determined that there are no established baseline data for a particular performance measure, an explanation of why there is no established baseline and of how and when, during the project period, the applicant would establish a valid baseline for the performance measure.
  - (3) **Performance targets.** Why each proposed performance target is ambitious yet achievable compared to the baseline for the performance measure and when, during the project period, the applicant would meet the performance target(s).

## Notes

### Amendments

[89 FR 70321, Aug. 29, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1221e-3 and 3474, unless otherwise noted. Section 75.263 also issued under 2 CFR 200.308(e)(1). Section 75.617 also issued under 31 U.S.C. 3504, 3505. Section 75.740 also issued under 20 U.S.C. 1232g and 1232h.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 22497, Apr. 3, 1980, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 45 FR 77368, Nov. 21, 1980.

### Amendments

[89 FR 70321, Aug. 29, 2024]