§ 702.1 - What is the purpose of these standards?

(a) The standards in this part implement section 912(i) of the Educational Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 1994 (the Act).

(b) These standards establish criteria and a peer review process to provide recipients of OERI grants, cooperative agreements and contract awards with assessments of their projects.

(1) The purpose of the assessments is to provide feedback to recipients to improve the quality of funded activities and to provide information to OERI as it determines if a recipient of a multi-year award merits continuation funding.

(2) The criteria and peer review process are intended to address the statutory requirement that the research, development, and dissemination activities carried out by the recipients of grants from and contracts and cooperative agreements with the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) meet the highest standards of professional excellence.