Evaluation in participatory arts programmes
Creative People and Places teams, artists, evaluation partners and critical friends share a selection of approaches, models and methods for evaluating participatory arts programmes.
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Creative Scotland: Is this the best it can be? Toolkit
Creative Scotland’s Is this the best it can be? is a toolkit that can be used by anyone delivering arts and creative learning through collaborative or participatory projects and programmes.
Creative and Credible
Creative & Credible supports arts and health organisations and practitioners to: – engage with evaluation creatively – improve your practice – make well-informed spending decisions – strengthen the evidence base around the benefits and impacts of arts and health projects Use this website to understand why you might need to evaluate, what approaches might be appropriate, and … More
Creative and Credible: Developing an Evaluation Framework
Evaluation needs to be planned and managed in the same way as any other project, with attention to budget, resources, timeline and milestones throughout. In this section we show how to develop an evaluation plan that will describe the evaluation approach and how it will be undertaken.
Creative and Credible: The Evaluation Cycle
The evaluation cycle offers an overarching framework to understand evaluation as an iterative process. It was developed by Willis Newson with researchers at the University of the West of England (Daykin et al. 2013) to guide practitioners.
Creative and Credible: Creative and Arts Based Evaluation Methods
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
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
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
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
This paper gives a brief introduction to the issues and techniques used for assessing value, including economic evaluation and social return on investment.
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