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Creative and Credible: Creative and Arts Based Evaluation Methods

By Written by Norma Daykin with the Creative and Credible Project Team

Creative and arts based approaches can be particularly powerful, especially at the data collection and dissemination phases of the evaluation cycle.

Creative and Credible: Writing and Reporting Case Studies

By Written by Mel McCree and Norma Daykin with the Creative and Credible Project Team.

Case studies are often presented in arts and health evaluation. They are used to highlight participants’ stories of the impact of arts projects. A well written case study can powerfully convey the impacts of an arts project.

Creative and Credible: Participatory Action Research

By Written by Dr Roz Hall with the Creative and Credible Project Team.

Roz Hall is a socially engaged arts practitioner, a photographer who has undertaken independent evaluations for many years, starting with her work with young people in digital media projects (Hall, 2005). Conventional evaluation approaches can be lacking if they do not attempt to understand the meaning of arts participation to people taking part. Participatory Action … More

Creative and Credible: Qualitative Evaluation

By Written by Norma Daykin with the Creative and Credible Project Team

Qualitative data include information gathered about participants’ experiences, perspectives and opinions. They can help to understand the meaning of arts activities and processes to participants. They can reveal important subjective information as well as illuminating the process of project delivery, showing unintended consequences of projects that cannot be identified through measurement using pre defined categories. … More

Creative and Credible: Assessing Value

By Written by Norma Daykin with the Creative and Credible Project Team.

This paper gives a brief introduction to the issues and techniques used for assessing value, including economic evaluation and social return on investment.

Creative and Credible: Quantitative Evaluation

By Written by Norma Daykin with Meg Attwood and the Creative and Credible Project Team.

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

Creative and Credible: Project Planning

By Written by Norma Daykin with Meg Attwood the Creative and Credible Project Team.

Perhaps the most important and extensive part of any evaluation is the work undertaken before any data are gathered.

The film evaluation tool

By SALTO

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.

Your Cinema Your Community Your Impact

By Regional Screen Scotland

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.

Moving Portraits – What Does It Mean To Be Me?

By With thanks to Stephanie Tyrrell from Sense and Toki Allison

Short synopsis: Moving Portraits was an inclusive screen dance film commissioned by Sense and was presented as part of Birmingham 2022 Festival. It captured and shared physical stories of people with complex disabilities, the film centres on the stories of people Sense supports. Each ‘portrait’ focusses on a dancer from our diverse community of people … More

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