Evaluation Reports

Silver Arts Award Summer School Report

The Silver Arts Award summer school sought to re-engage with Year 9 to Year 11 students to provide them further exposure to a university environment to raise aspirations and reinforce self-belief in them achieving their future possible selves.

FEC Outreach Programme 2023

An evaluation of the impact of the Kent and Medway Further Education College (FEC) Outreach Programme in 2023. The evaluation was conducted via analysis of via three surveys: Student exit survey, Student exit survey and matched baseline responses, and a Staff survey.

UCA ‘Thrive Youth Conference’ 2022 – Evaluation Report

UCA's Thrive Youth Conference aimed to enable young people to find out more about the vast range of sectors that rely on creative subjects to thrive and give young people the opportunity to make informed decisions about their future.

TASO Blog – What we learnt from taking part in TASO’s Summer School Evaluation

This blog from Amy Burt (Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, University of Kent) looks at the experience of virtual summer schools (first published on TASO’s News & Blog webpage in July 2022) - https://taso.org.uk/news-item/what-we-learnt-from-taking-part-in-tasos-summer-school-evaluation/

Canterbury Christ Church University Inspiring Minds Impact Evaluation

This report follows a quasi-experimental evaluation design to evaluate the impact of participating in CCCU’s Inspiring Minds Year 10 STEM activity. The analysis draws on data supplied as part of the HEAT Track to examine the impact of participation on Key Stage 4 exam attainment.

National Literacy Trust Words for Your Future Evaluation Report

Words for Your Future is a bespoke programme that brings higher education into the classroom to unlock students' literacy skills and raise aspirations.

The programme targets Year 9 students who have the ability to achieve the grades to secure a place at university, but may lack the confidence and literacy skills to do so.

UCA Schools Connect Summary Report – May 2022

Working with target schools and young people from the EKCEP region, the Schools Connect programme was developed to support the core vision of the EKCEP: working collaboratively ‘to change lives and broaden horizons so that every child and young person in East Kent can enjoy and have access to the arts and culture’.