Evaluation Title

Summer Arts Colleges 2006: Evaluation Report

Type of evaluation

Data type Qualitative and Quantitative

Evaluation Focus Engagement, Improved model of delivery, Literacy and numeracy, Progression Routes

Key indicators Attendance, Engagement, Literacy skills, Programme design, Programme integrity, Progression Routes

Project outputs Arts Award, Structured workshop programme

Methodologies Asset analysis, Attendance registers, Discussion, Interviews, Tracking forms

Summary of evaluation

An indendepent evaluation of the seven  Summer Arts Colleges programmes run in 2006, focusing on the effectivenss of an arts-based structured prorgamme, progression routes to ETE and reducing re-offending in the 2 months following the programme.

The main findings of the Summer Arts College evaluation are
largely positive. For most of the group:
• educational engagement was relatively high;
• there were significant artistic and creative achievements;
• there was a substantial fall in offending recorded by the Youth Offending Teams.
There is also some evidence that these gains proved durable for significant numbers of the group in the succeeding months. educational and offending careers, demographics, risk factors for offending, attitudes towards the arts, education and offending, and participation levels.

Project description

The seven Summer Arts Colleges in 2006 represented an ambitious attempt to implement several strands of the PLUS Strategy: extensive use of arts enrichment resources, training, and a specified project model.

The Colleges operated in Leeds, Doncaster, Trafford, Cambridge, Leicestershire, Harrow and Eastbourne for the six weeks of the schools summer holiday. Seventy-six young people participated in the college across the seven sites. The PLUS Strategy Team devised a detailed specification for the delivery of the Summer Arts Colleges, which formed the basis of contracts with each of the participating Youth Offending Teams.
 


Key Quote

Measured against the specific objectives laid down in the specification there were significant achievements in the areas of educational engagement and progression, creative participation and reductions in offending. The area of greatest success was perhaps in educational engagement, which seems to have endured after the Summer Arts Colleges.


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