Eidos

Description

The Impact program is designed to develop large scale, shared member data, and understandable analyses and evaluations of the progress of the education sector within Australia and to inform and blend policy, research and practice. Eidos facilitates a small group of key Queensland education and social researchers to design a significant research informing policy project aligned to key member needs.

Eidos facilitates amongst partners the development of key "over the horizon" issues in educational and social development that form the "big-picture" areas of focus amongst partners. A report will be produced annually and provide an input into Eidos and partner forums to analyse and develop areas of strategic focus.

Benefits

Contribution towards Eidos goals and targets
Eidos + Impact contributes toward the achieving of Goal 2 targets, by providing a measurable focus for the future collaborative research and policy-development initiatives pursued by the partners. Over time, Eidos + Impact will have a broader benefit of forming a knowledge-based from which partners can assert their expertise in important areas of national and international concern.

Benefits for partners
Partners will benefit by being associated with the creation of knowledge in areas of national and international interest. There will be long-term benefits for attracting funding in areas of high public and government interest.

What Eidos will do

Eidos provides the support and resources for establishing and maintaining a research group, including:

Facilitating agency debate about the areas of concern

Researching and facilitating agency discussion about the most important issues for articulation and elaboration

Facilitating the collation of various forms of information relevant to the indicators

Publishing annual reports on challenging and emerging issues of relevance to partners.

What partners will contribute

Partners are expected to:

Support initial forums to identify the areas of interest

Provide relevant information (research, statistics etc) to generate benchmark data for the report

Develop internal processes to capture relevant data and forward to EIDOS

Participate in the analysis of data and report preparation.

Evaluation

Impact is evaluated in terms of:

Amount and quality of information collected

Satisfaction of researchers and policy-makers regarding the data

Perception of national agencies about the value and relevance of the report.