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If you are faced with any of these issues,
we can help:
• Require an evaluation of a project?
• Need to find out what young people think about your project?
• Want to map services in your area?
• Have to evaluate a project that seems not to have tangible
outcomes?
• Must justify to sponsors why you need extra funding?
• Want children and young people to participate in evaluating
your project?
• Show stakeholders how successful your project has been?
• Are required to demonstrate the effectiveness of your
learning materials?
• Keen to improve your programme?
• Need to make your project more cost-effective?
• Could do with help in evaluating your own project?
educari staff and Associates are:
• Used to helping children and young
people to participate
• Experienced in interviewing, running
focus groups, and observing interventions
• Expert in questionnaire and interview
schedule design
• Familiar with relevant software,
such as Excel
• Expert in our knowledge of young
people, and young people’s services.
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Research and Evaluation
educari is an independent consultancy widely
concerned with children and young people, drugs, education, and health.
Our work includes: research, evaluation and policy analysis; consultancy
and training; publications; website design and development; and international
work. We are experienced in conducting evaluations for a variety of
organisations using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
educari experience of research and evaluation
educari has experience of undertaking different kinds of research and
evaluation (in particular, about children and young people) for a range
of clients.
Examples of educari evaluations include:
• Evaluation of the drug education provision in secondary schools,
for the London Borough of Westminster
• Evaluation of a series of public information campaigns, for
the Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland (HPANI)
• Evaluation of HYPE, a peer education project, for West Berkshire
Education Services
• Evaluation of a national project to raise standards in 56
local education authorities, funded by the Home Office
• Evaluation of a theatre-in-education programme about drugs
in secondary schools, for CEA@Islington
more info
• Evaluation of the ‘Health Bus’, a secondary school
Health Education programme involving school mentors and vulnerable
young people
• Evaluation of external provision of drug education in Westminster
and Kensington and Chelsea primary schools.
more info
• Evaluation of the Camden Children's Fund (ongoing).
more info
Examples of educari research and needs assessments include:
• A technical review of the Grampian Police CD-ROM Learning
for Life for the Mentor Foundation
• Young People’s Needs Substance Misuse Needs Assessments
in for DATs in Camden and Islington, West Berkshire and in the London
Borough of Harrow
• Mapping of young people’s drugs services for Lambeth,
Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority
• A literature review and telephone survey of early intervention
service provision for the LSLHA Health Action Zone
• Research into young people’s experiences of volatile
substance abuse, involving interviews with young people and professionals
across England and Scotland
• Analysis of services in Northern Ireland for the Health Promotion
Agency.
contacting educari
For further information about our research and evaluation service,
please contact:
Barbara Wyvill,
educari
Manor Farm,
Kettlestone,
NR21 0AU,
U K
Telephone: 01328 878 790
Fax: 01328 878 991
e-mail: barbara@educari.com
Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster
educari recently evaluated external provision of drug education in
the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster primary
schools. We consulted widely with headteachers, teachers, and children
and with the providers. Our final report made recommendations to both
LEAs covering all aspects of external drug education provision. The
LEAs are currently using the recommendations to improve practice.
Angel High
In 2002, educari evaluated ‘Angel High’ an exciting theatre-in-education
project in Islington. Our evaluation involved pre- and post-intervention
questionnaires to a sample of students from four participating schools.
We also asked school drug education coordinators and teachers, who
viewed the play and the workshop that followed it, to complete questionnaires.
We obtained more detailed information by interviewing the drug education
coordinators from four schools as well as a range of people involved
in the play and the workshop. Our report affected CEA@Islington’s
decisions about the future of the play and the workshop.
Camden Children’s Fund evaluation
educari is currently working in partnership
with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (Kings College, London)
to evaluate the Camden Children’s Fund (CCF). The evaluation
takes place over three years and is both formative and summative.
A key element of this evaluation is participation by children and
young people.
DEPIS consultancy
educari’s Barbara Wyvill is currently working with DEPIS as
an evaluation consultant, helping drug education and prevention projects
to evaluate themselves. The consultancy starts with regional Workshops
on ‘How to evaluate’ and offers drugs projects services
which include: training staff; taking part in planning meetings; giving
feedback on questionnaires, analysis, and reports; answering email
or telephone queries; and so on.
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What we can offer you:
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• Process, Outcome, Impact and Economic Evaluation
• Formative and Summative Evaluation
• Needs Assessment, Service Mapping
• Monitoring, Consultation and Research
• Help with evaluating your own project
• Skills in communicating with children, young people,
parents/carers, professionals
• Working with sponsors
• Well-written and comprehensive reports
• Recommendations to inform policy and practice
• Reliability and commitment
• Working to deadlines and delivering on time
• An ethical service.
educari methodology
educari staff and Associates ensure:
• Active and skilled involvement of children, young
people, professionals, parents and carers, and the community
• The use of quantitative and qualitative research
methods to provide a richer picture
• Data analysis and statistical methods used are
rigorous, informed and appropriate.
educari researchers/ evaluators
Barbara Wyvill, BEd, MSc, FRES, has a
background in Initial Teacher Training, CPD, and educational
research.
Richard Ives, BEd, BA, MPhil, has experience
in teaching, youth work and as a researcher for the National
Children’s Bureau working on the National Child Development
Study.
Both Richard and Barbara are Honorary Research Fellows
of the Institute for Policy Studies in Education at the
London Metropolitan University and have published papers
on research methodology in academic journals. However, our
main focus is not academic - we understand the need of those
who commission evaluations not simply to have a report which
describes what has happened and how it has happened, but
one which makes well-thought-out recommendations for future
action.
We work with a range of expert Associates experienced in
different aspects of research and evaluation.
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