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Evaluating Partnership and Organisational Resilience
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| Annabel Jackson, Annabel Jackson Associates Ltd, ajataja@aol.com
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The Arts Council's visual arts strategy in the UK identified problems of fragmentation and a need to strengthen collaboration and resource sharing across the sector. A national network of regional visual arts partnerships was set up with evaluation at its core. The evaluation is of interest because it relates to organizational arts activity, rather than projects or educational activities, which are more commonly evaluated in the arts, and because the benefits to the 200 arts organizations are central. Evaluation was used to identify and resolve potential ambiguities or disagreements in the groups, to share learning and make links between groups. The evaluator measured intangibles such as partnership, synergy and resilience using stakeholder analysis, but also quantitative techniques such as Social Network Analysis. The overall approach strongly respected the values of the arts, e.g. the findings from Social Network Analysis were presented as images showing the development of linkages over time.
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Measuring Excellence, Innovation, and Livability Resulting from the National Endowment for the Arts' Grant Awards
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| Patricia Moore Shaffer, National Endowment for the Arts, shafferp@arts.gov
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In its FY 2012-2016 Strategic Plan, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) articulated an approach to measure the outcomes of its grant-making activities through performance measurement and program evaluation. NEA strategic performance measures seek to collect national data on the desired outcomes of NEA grants, including the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence and the engagement of the American public with diverse and excellent art. New data-collection strategies will include post-award reviews for excellence and innovation. The NEA also will conduct national surveys of grantee audiences as a way to determine how and to what degree those audiences have been affected by their arts experiences. Metrics development and program evaluation, especially in the area of livability, informed development of the NEA's performance measurement plan. This full-paper session will present an overview of the NEA's strategic framework and performance measurement plan.
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Evaluating Social and Emotional Development Through ENACT Theater Workshops: Context, Conditions, Process and Outcomes
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| Robert Horowitz, Columbia University, artsresearch@aol.com
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During the 2009-2010 school year, we evaluated ENACT, a New York City theater-based program for adolescent and pre-adolescent students. We chose a mixed-method approach, using extensive qualitative methods and statistical approaches based upon the qualitative data. Through an extensive initial qualitative study, involving coding of interview transcripts and observational description, we identified 22 program implementation and student behavior variables. The analysis was used to develop an observational assessment strategy that would be unobtrusive, yet provide detailed quantitative and qualitative data. We found that we were better able to communicate our methods, analysis and findings to the different stakeholders by categorizing variables and focus within four areas: context, conditions, process and outcomes. The presentation will explore evaluation challenges and solutions, and include the overall findings demonstrating the relationship between ENACT programming and social and emotional learning.
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