A Quantitative Case Study Focused on Using a Human Resource Development System to Analyze the Program Performance Assessment Strategies of Federally Funded Career and Technical Education Programs in 12 Minnesota Technical Colleges.

This research analyzed 12 Minnesota Technical Colleges’ Program Assessments in terms of: 1.Did assessments of their Career and Technical education programs focus on results-related outcomes? 2. Were program assessment measures “related” to programs’ goals? 3. Were targeted programs’ goals attained? Conclusions: 1. Report findings had limited relationships to results-related findings. 2. Assessment outcome measures tended not to measure proposed outcomes. 3. Reports generally claimed that they had evidence that program goals were attained.