Presentation to staff, Board and partners concerning the complexity of understanding the relationships between cause and effect in human well-being, especially as it relates to education and employment. Specific notes to follow.
3. “Complex” questions
• How effective are interventions to raise
educational achievement?
• What is the link between poverty, place and
ethnicity?
• Can we change community cultures?
4. Evaluation: How effective are interventions to
raise educational attainment?
Plan
Identify Assess Review
(incl. provision)
Complexity – part of a system – difficult to understand individual parts of that system in isolation. Another way of putting it, it’s about understanding things in context
People – JRFProvision – eveluation
e.g. ASD, RAISE, BTFT, Pre-venet, ALN e.g. are we identifying the right childtrenandyoungpeople?Are we assesing their needs?Are we planning for and meeting their needs?Are we reviewing how effectively we are? What impact did the intervention have upon each of these? What else had an impact?
Understanding and measuring ‘tipping points’Relationships individuals and interventions