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Corporate report: Evaluation Academy - Final Evaluation Report

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The Evaluation Task Force has published their evaluation of the July 2025 Evaluation Academy training programme.

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“Strong evaluation evidence is essential for making effective government decisions and ensuring public money is spent wisely. This evaluation report demonstrates our commitment to improving delivery and strengthening our ability to make evidence-based decisions. This work should serve as best practice for teams across government looking to produce an excellent evaluation.”

Josh Simons MP - Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office

  • The Evaluation Academy is a capability building course, developed by the Evaluation Task Force (ETF), which uses a train-the-trainer model to improve civil service analysts’ ability to teach others about evaluation methods. The ETF conducted an impact evaluation (IE) and an implementation and process evaluation (IPE) of the first stage of the Evaluation Academy’s train-the-trainer model in July 2025. 
  • The impact evaluation employed a randomised controlled trial (RCT) which used a two-arm, individual-level waitlist design to investigate the impact of the Evaluation Academy on two primary outcomes – participants’ confidence in delivering evaluation training and the size of participants’ evaluation network – and one secondary outcome – participants’ knowledge of evaluation methods and processes. 
  • The impact evaluation demonstrated large and significant effects of the Evaluation Academy on both primary outcomes. Compared to those in the control group, participants reported substantially higher levels of confidence in delivering evaluation training (an average increase of approximately 1-point on a 5-point scale) as well as substantial increases in the size of their cross-government evaluation networks (an average increase of 8 people). 

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