Current Research Projects

This page gives an overview of some of CCE's current research projects. Where available you can also download interim reports for the projects.

Evaluation of the Creative Partnerships Enquiry Schools programme

The broad aim is to supply an overarching evaluation of the Enquiry School programme, particularly in regard to its practices and pedagogies. Using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research methods the evaluation will look at the planning and evaluation data generated by Enquiry schools, look at 80 schools in more detail and carry out 10 case studies that accentuate observations of practice.

Project timescale: March 2009 – October 2010

Lead Research Partner: LC Research Associates

Contact Name: John Harland

Contact Details: j.harland400@btinternet.com

Final report due: October 2010

Evaluation of the Creative Partnerships Change Schools programme

This project was commissioned to analyse the effectiveness the Change School Programme and looks at how schools in the programme might travel ‘an appropriate journey’ over the three year period. Given that the evaluation will be conducted in the middle of the three year ‘journey’/funding period it will identify and analyse mid-point features and describe indications of effective practice part way through the change schools’ journey.

Project timeline: March 2009 – September 2010

Lead Research: Partner: David Wood Consultants

Contact Name: David Wood

Contact Details: davidwoodconsultants@talktalk.net

Final report due: September 2010

Interim reports: Due October 2009 and April 2010.

Change Schools - Creative Practice

Evaluation of the nature and impact of the Creative Partnerships programme on school ethos

This project takes a mixed-method approach that involves theorising and analysing notions such as ‘ethos’ and ‘soft outcomes’, and allowing potential survey questions to emerge from a revisiting of existing data and a longer period of new data collection.

A literature review will look at existing untheorised data sources that might reveal indicators of 'ethos', such as Ofsted inspection reports, school Creative Partnerships application and planning forms the NFER study into behaviour.

Five schools will also be looked at in more detail through observation and interviews to build towards the development of a survey instrument based on the data collected during this qualitative work and from discussion with study schools about what would be useful.

Project timescale: March 2009 – December 2010

Lead Research Partner: Open University with Manchester Metropolitan University

Contact Name: Dr Sara Bragg

Contact Details: s.g.bragg@open.ac.uk

Final report due: December 2010

Interim reports due: January, April and July 2010

Evaluation of the nature and impact of Creative Partnerships on teaching workforce

Whilst the impacts of Creative Partnerships on young people have been explored, the impacts on the school workforce are less well known. The overall aim of the evaluation is to explore the impact of working on, or with, CP projects on the full spectrum of the teaching workforce. This will include evaluating the nature of the impacts, the extent/reach and range of impact, as well as the evidence to support these perceptions and claims.

Through in depth case studies using an impact trail for individual teachers the evaluation will map and theorise the identified impacts into a framework.

Project timescale: March 2009 – September 2010

Lead Research Partner: National Foundation for Educational Research

Contact Name: Pippa Lord

Contact Details: p.lord@nfer.ac.uk

Final report due: September 2010

NFER TWI Interim Progress paper July 2009 (644 KB)

Further interim report due: April 2010

Persistence of Vision (Media Education Association)

Persistence of Vision (POV) will be a developmental, investigative project to establish much-needed benchmarks for learning about animated films and filmmaking, and will demonstrate how filmmaking can be embedded in the curriculum by being linked to teaching and learning about poetry.

The research is part of the 21st Century Literacy project that Creativity, Culture and Education is part funding. For more information about the 21st Century Literacy project see http://www.21stcenturyliteracy.org.uk

Final report due: December 2010