Creative and Credible: CASE STUDY: Developing an Outcomes Framework For Arts And Older People
This hypothetical case study draws on Willis Newson’s experience of evaluating arts projects with older people in residential care homes.
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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.
Creative and Credible: Quantitative Evaluation
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
Perhaps the most important and extensive part of any evaluation is the work undertaken before any data are gathered.
Creative and Credible: Good Practice in Evaluation
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.
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