The Kentucky Tech Prep Evaluation system was developed to establish and maintain a database and data analysis for assessment of the effectiveness of tech prep programs in achieving specific goals and in helping schools improve cognitive and noncognitive performance as reflected in the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS) accountability system. The evaluation system was developed after reviews of a national tech prep survey instrument and Kentucky's tech prep goals and funding guidelines, meetings with key individuals involved in planning and delivering tech prep in Kentucky, and analysis of statewide transition and KIRIS data. The evaluation system is designed to determine over a 3- to 5-year period how tech prep is affecting students' test results and the school-to-work transition. The tech prep evaluation system is based on secondary and postsecondary survey forms that were tested at five pilot sites in metropolitan and rural school districts throughout the state. The surveys will be administered each year, and the responses will be analyzed along with cognitive and noncognitive KIRIS data. (Appendixes constituting approximately 50% of this document contain definitions for tech prep and the pilot version and 1994 versions of the secondary and postsecondary evaluation instruments.) (MN)