Creativity Collaboratives Evaluation

The evaluation aims to understand the impact of the programme for participants as well as looking in detail at how the programme was implemented.

The evaluation framework for the Creativity Collaboratives pilot programme has three key aims:

• To understand the impact of each Creativity Collaborative against their individual research question/s.
• To support Creativity Collaboratives in monitoring and evaluating their own practice so that they can use data to learn about what they are doing, improve their practice and justify their practice to external stakeholders.
• To bring together and analyse the impact of the differing approaches adopted by the national Creativity Collaboratives programme and understand the overall impact of the programme in establishing teaching for creativity within schools and the curriculum.

The evaluation framework for the national Creativity Collaborative pilot programme will include data collected at a range of levels. Data collection is split into two parts

• Overarching evaluation framework – all Creativity Collaboratives participate in data collection for the overarching evaluation framework. The Durham Evaluation Team will provide the data collection tools for this including surveys, focus groups and reflective portfolios. The team will also conduct detailed case studies with a number of Collaboratives.
• Individual evaluation within Creativity Collaboratives –  individual Creativity Collaboratives are also undertaking a range of evaluation activities to gather supporting evidence for their responses to the overarching evaluation framework data collection and to support implementation of their individual programme. The Durham Evaluation Team have provided a toolkit of data collection tools, with examples and guidance, which individual Creativity Collaboratives can select from as appropriate to their individual Creativity Collaborative.

The Evaluation Advisory Board acts as an independent forum to advise and discuss the design, implementation, findings, dissemination and impact for the evaluation of the Creativity Collaboratives pilot programme. The Advisory Board meets online twice a year.

Membership includes experts working in a diverse range of roles to advise on:

• evaluation design, practices, methodologies, and implementation
• use of evidence in policy making and practice
• creativity in education and student wellbeing.

Current members of the board are listed below (please note that not all members of the advisory board are listed for reasons of confidentiality):

• Eitan Buchalter
• Triin Edovald, Independent Consultant
• Elizabeth MacGregor, Somerville College, University of Oxford
• Andrew Mowlah, Arts Council England
• Amanda Rigler, Arts Council England
• Charles Tracy, Institute of Physics
• Claire Webster Saaremets, Skimstone Arts

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions about the evaluation of the Creativity Collaboratives programme.