Creative and Credible: Assessing Value
This paper gives a brief introduction to the issues and techniques used for assessing value, including economic evaluation and social return on investment.
This paper gives a brief introduction to the issues and techniques used for assessing value, including economic evaluation and social return on investment.
Even the smallest scale project evaluation involves some kind of monitoring. The purpose of this is to document project delivery, usually recording the numbers taking part, the settings where the activities took place, the types of activity offered, and the outputs from the activity, including creative outputs such as artworks, music and performance. This often … More
Perhaps the most important and extensive part of any evaluation is the work undertaken before any data are gathered.
It can be challenging to make time and resources available for evaluation, which can sometimes seem costly in relation to the overall project costs. However, it is increasingly important to factor in evaluation costs when planning projects, particularly if these are envisaged as having a role to play in supporting health and wellbeing or meeting … More
Good practice can be demonstrated in relation to each stage of the evaluation cycle (Daykin et al. 2013). Although there are no agreed codes of practice or ethics for evaluators, as there are for researchers, some key principles emerged from the Creative and Credible Project.
This document by Creative and Credible outlines the different purposes of evaluation and explains the differences between different evaluation models and approaches.
Examples of Creative Evaluation Techniques.
This toolkit has been created for the Family Arts Campaign by Catherine Rose’s Office, for use by organisations participating in the Get Creative Family Arts Festival. It provides guidance, information and ideas on evaluating your Festival events and researching your audiences
This is a tool to make the daily evaluation in a funny and impressive way: each participant will draw a scene that represent the day, then all the scenes will be put together to create a film about the liking of the activities for the whole group.
This toolkit for cinemas points to the information that you need to know to determine whether you have screened your films successfully, attracted intended audiences, and made a difference to the people that attend as well as your wider community and economy.