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This article evaluates a sport programme engaging marginalised girls in Western Australia aiming to promote education and health and wellbeing.

In Australia, the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and their non-Indigenous peers is significant in terms of attendance, retention to Year 12, and literacy and numeracy skills, with the gap widening in regional and remote contexts. School-based, “academy-style” engagement programmes work to close this gap by providing holistic support services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students while requiring a certain level of school attendance by programme participants. Shooting Stars is an engagement programme based in seven remote and regional schools in Western Australia, where it uses netball and other incentives to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls in their education, while promoting their health and wellbeing. Shooting Stars evaluates the efficacy of its services through collation of attendance data, participant case studies, and yarning circles. The methods used in the yarning circles research were developed over 18 months in collaboration with Shooting Stars participants, localised Shooting Stars steering committees, and Shooting Stars staff. This paper presents the evaluation protocols for the Shooting Stars programme, focusing on the yarning circles’ methods in order to provide a framework or model of Indigenous evaluation methods for others working within this space.

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Australia
Australia
Netball
10 – Reduced inequalities
Girls and women
https://www.sportanddev.org/research-and-learning/resource-library/yarning-stars-project-indigenous-evaluation-protocol-sport

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Journal Articles
2019
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Country
Australia
Region
Australia
Sport
Netball
Sustainable Development Goals
10 – Reduced inequalities
Target Group
Girls and women