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Evaluation of the School Sports Partnership Programme
CRSP is part of a consortium, led by the Institute of Youth Sport, which is evaluating the effectiveness of the School Sports Partnership Programme in delivering its policy objectives.
The School Sports Partnership Programme is a joint initiative of the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and involving Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust, launched in September 2000. The programme's aims are to:
- increase the participation of school age children in sports,
- improve the standards of performance, and
- increase the number of qualified and active coaches.
The programme has so far put into post more than 8,000 key personnel, whose task it is to co-ordinate sport and sport teaching activities by creating local networks of schools linked to specialist sports colleges.
The impact study commenced in 2003 and will be completed by 2008. It has both quantitative and qualitative components. The evaluation team will gather part of the information through a questionnaire distributed to all Partnership Development Managers and to a sample of School Sport Coordinators and Primary Link Teachers. Further, more detailed, information will be gathered through a series of case studies focused on individual partnerships. Twenty in depth case studies will be compiled in each of the five years of the study. Of these, five will be longitudinal studies.
The consortium includes the Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy, the Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy Research Group, the British Heart Foundation National Centre (all based at Loughborough University), and the Centre for Developing and Evaluating Lifelong Learning (University of Nottingham). The project is being conducted in association with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Project team
Dr Amanda Waring, Janet Harvey, Esmeranda Manful and Nicola Selby
Publications
Annual Monitoring and Evaluation Report for 2005
Dates
March 2003-September 2009
Sponsor
Department for Children, Schools and Families
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