Evaluation Brief

I’m a Scientist is a science dialogue event where school students talk to real scientists online for two weeks. It’s in the form of an X Factor style competition between scientists, who compete for a prize of £500.

For two weeks students read about the scientists’ work, ask them questions, and engage in live online text chats with them. The students vote for the scientist they want to get the money.

The scientists with the fewest votes are evicted until only one is left to be crowned the winner. The event is supported by carefully developed and tested resources which develop students’ skills and deepen their understanding.

We ran a pilot event in June 2008, funded by the Wellcome Trust. We now have a Society Award from Wellcome to roll the event out over the next two years. We are working in partnership with the NCCPE who will also be involved in shaping the evaluation.

We would like to appoint an individual/agency to evaluate the project for us, over these next two years. The bulk of the work will be in the first year, but the final evaluation report should be produced in November 2011.

The evaluation brief is here

For background, you can download the evaluation of the pilot event here

Proposals (no longer than 4 sides of A4) should be submitted by email to Sophia Collins at sophia@gallomanor.com no later than 5pm on 12th March 2010.