Idaho Quality Program Standards

CTE IQPS page can be found on the Idaho CTE Website under Educator Portal on the Top Right Corner of the Page.

The Idaho Quality Program Standards is a program evaluation tool to help you assess the state of your program and develop an action plan to make program improvements. It can also be used for program advocacy to show administrators and advisory boards the state of your program. This page is dedicated to PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT, the IQPS Grant should be seen as a added benefit for your time spent evaluating and making program improvements. Note that steps 4-6 on this page are not required for the IQPS Grant but are critical steps for program improvement.

If you have questions please contact Janine Hodges at State CTE for questions.

Step 1: Rate your program using the standards from the CTE Division This should be done by the teacher and be a quick assessment of where your program is today. Take notes in the margin on supporting evidence you could provide.

Step 2: Collect evidence under each standard to support your rating levels. Collect all of the evidence in a single file, electronic and/or hard copy, that could be given to a local review team to evaluate your program. It is helpful if you organize it by standard.

Step 3: Give a local review team the information sheets and evidence to conduct an outside evaluation of your program. Have them take notes of comments and suggestions.

Step 4: Create a data summary sheet to make it easy for advisory board members, administrators and you to develop an improvement action plan.

Step 5: Meet with advisory board members, administrators and teacher(s) to develop an improvement action plan. This can be a 5 year plan or annual plan depending on program needs and assessment. 

Step 6: Implement the program improvement action plan utilizing your advisory board and alumni throughout the year as needed.