National HEPPP Evaluation Think Tank
Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th July, 2012
Equity practitioners from around Australia and representatives of the Department for Industry, Innovation, Research, Science and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) gathered in Melbourne to discuss options for a national Evaluation Strategy for the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP).
Developing a national approach to HEPPP evaluation
The opportunity to share current practice and discuss options for a co-ordinated approach to HEPPP evaluations was most timely.
Read the Discussion paper (959 KB)
Aims of the Think Tank
- To present and discuss examples of evaluation frameworks and indicators that are being developed by individual universities HEPPP funded project consortia
- To investigate how existing state and federal data sets could be used for evaluation of the HEPPP and its impact
- To develop options for a practical and effective evaluation framework with input and support from equity practitioners and the sector more widely
Contact details for further enquiries:
Dr Nadine Zacharias
Director, Equity and Diversity Unit
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway Burwood Victoria 3125 Australia.
Phone: +61 3 9244 3879
Mobile: +61 488 171 212
Fax: +61 3 9251 9251
If you are interested in HEPPP evaluation and you want to contribute to projects resulting from the think tank - Get involved.
Day 1
Deborah Tranter, President EPHEA
Keynote: Good practice in program evaluation (2 MB)
Dr Josephine Palermo, Deakin University
HEPPP evaluation: existing models and approaches
Lucie Joschoko and Catherine Burnheim, Monash University
Jennifer Oriel, Deakin University
Bridges to Higher Education Project (471 KB)
Trish Mullins and Jude Stoddart (for Sydney Basin Consortium)
University of Western Sydney and University of Technology Sydney
Widening Tertiary Education in Queensland (Schools outreach) project (173 KB)
Geoffrey Mitchell and Mary Kelly (for Queensland Consortium)
Queensland University of Technology
Talking Statistics: How to get intelligence from existing data sources (228 KB)
Claire Hourigan, University of Queensland
Current knowledge, possibilities, challenges
- What should be done collectively?
- Mixed methods with focus on What Works?
- Communication strategy
- Partnership activities for collaborative evaluation projects
- Whole of program approach
- Access to Federal and State data
Day 2
The role of the Department for Industry, Innovation, Research, Science and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) in evaluating the HEPPP
Craig Ritchie, DIISRTE
Towards a National approach on HEPPP evaluation: agreement on what we want to happen
Day 2 Outcomes
6 Emerging themes (coming soon)
