NCRIS Evaluation
A major Australian Government Department commissioned ASR to conduct research that formed part of an evaluation of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) programme and its 27 projects.
A survey was conducted online using SurveyManager. ASR’s responsibilities were to:
- Refine the questions required for the questionnaire, including undertaking trial testing with an agreed number of projects
- Conduct a pilot trial with four quite different projects and then provide the Department with an interim report on the outcomes from the testing, including issues raised and whether/how they are to be addressed
- Develop and operate a suitable online portal
- Liaise with projects entering data to assist them to accurately enter data
- Provide data and a draft summary report to the 27 projects and the Department for validation
- Provide the Department with a single collated response of all data, including overall totals for each question, individual project data for each question and provide programme level responses to all questions.
- Provide the Department with a publishable final report for public use.
The evaluation focused on the activities of each project’s lead agent, its interactions with both the Australian Government as primary funding agent, and project participants as deliverers of project outcomes.