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NASA Education Program
NASA's Education program works to: foster a science, technology, engineering, and math workforce in fields that support NASA's strategic goals; attract students to the disciplines through a progression of education opportunities; and build strategic partnerships between formal and informal education providers.
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What This Rating Means |
NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated
A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
- NASA has taken several steps to improve the potential of the Education program to strengthen and measure its performance. For instance, the agency developed a new education framework and implementation plan as well as new metrics by which to evaluate the program's achievement of intended outcomes.
- While NASA has made considerable progress in focusing the program's plans on achieving meaningful outcomes, the program has not yet collected sufficient data to demonstrate that it is achieving its intended results. For example, the program does not have complete data on its success in attracting students to jobs at NASA.
- NASA lacks a solid grasp of how the program's offerings and strategic partnerships with external organizations impact the program's ability to achieve desired outcomes and use resources as efficiently as possible. The program has not completed an analysis to determine whether any of its activities and offerings are unnecessarily redundant with those other agencies or other parts of NASA conduct.
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Improvement Plan
About Improvement Plans |
We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:
- Collecting performance data consistently and annually for all program activities, reporting performance against the program's established metrics and targets, and using results to improve performance.
- Conducting independent evaluations to assess the program's effectiveness and efficiency against the program's established metrics and performance goals and applying resources based on the results.
- Offering opportunities not addressed by other agencies and that are unique in their use of NASA's resources and benefits to NASA's mission and collaborating with other agencies where appropriate.
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