The RSA Pupil Design Awards is a free, national, challenge-based project for secondary schools, established in 2014 by the RSA and the Comino Foundation.
This evaluation was undertaken to understand the impact of the RSA’s Pupil Design Awards (PDAs) around the following outcomes:
And to understand what factors are critical to support teachers to complete the project.
To test our theory of change and understand how to best achieve our outcomes and deliver impact, we developed an evaluation framework of activity that included collecting data through surveys completed by pupils, interviews and focus groups with both pupils and teachers, and reports from mentor workshops in schools.
This report summarises our process and findings.
Download the Pupil Design Awards 2021-2022: Final evaluation report (PDF, 1.4 MB)
Inspiring social change through design thinking.
The Pupil Design Awards 2023-24: End of Year Evaluation Report lays out the key findings from this year’s RSA design awards for learners aged between 11 and 17.
This evaluation illustrates how the Pupil Design Awards contributes to the pupils’ creative self-efficacy, awareness of real-world issues and pupil and teachers’ design capability, as well as the critical factors supporting teachers to complete projects and how we can make the awards more inclusive.
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