The Center to Improve Project Performance (CIPP) provides technical assistance to grantees and staff of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). CIPP’s overall mission is to advance the rigor and objectivity of evaluations conducted by or for OSEP-funded projects so that the results of these evaluations can be used by projects to improve their performance and used by OSEP for future funding decisions, strategic planning, and program performance measurement.