Universities grow capacity for impact evaluation

The Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES) is pleased to mark the recent conclusion of projects funded through the Capacity Building Grants Program.

This competitive program provided support for universities across Australia to develop their internal capacity for engaging in impact evaluations of equity programs.

The 12 diverse projects have each made a critical contribution, supporting universities to engage equity teams in targeted training and professional development, work with specialist evaluators to develop resources, and build the data infrastructure required to measure impact.

Project reports and associated resources for 11 of the projects are now available on the Equity Hub website:

• Australian Catholic University – Leadership and capacity building for impact-driven equity and widening participation initiatives
• Edith Cowan University – Development of a Program Evaluation Community of Practice to support a whole-of-university approach to SEHEEF
• University of the Sunshine Coast – Building capacity for impact evaluation through uplift of equity data practice
• University of Canberra – Fostering evaluative capacity for widening participation practitioners in the primary school context
• Deakin University – Building infrastructure to evaluate student equity program outcomes
• Griffith University with other Innovative Research Universities (IRU) universities – Towards impact evaluations of student equity programs across the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group
• Charles Darwin University – Evaluation for practitioners: Developing capacity, confidence, and passion for evaluation and monitoring to improve student outcomes by measuring impact
• University of Wollongong – Building evaluative capacity to improve equity student retention and experience at the University of Wollongong
• The University of Queensland with Monash University – Building capacity to evaluate scalable school outreach mentoring programs
• The University of Newcastle – Reimagining evaluation: creating an Indigenisation of curriculum evaluation ecosystem
• The University of Melbourne with other Group of Eight (Go8) universities – A collaboration for impact evaluation of student equity programs across the Go8
• University of South Australia – Chartering change: Building developmental evaluation capacity for equity initiatives

Hosted by ACSES, Equity Hub is a space to share knowledge and resources for evaluating university programs and activities that support access and success for every student.