In 2011 the Origin Foundation funded a three-year evaluation to discover three things about the design:
In what significant ways is Big Picture Education different from the default model of schooling?
How close to the design are Big Picture schools operating?
Are Big Picture schools supporting student success across a range of cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes?
Between 2013 and 2016 BPEA has been involved in a project with Murdoch University. The BPA Project involved five schools in a southern corridor region of Perth. Three large high schools introduced a Big Picture Academy within the larger school while two smaller schools have introduced a whole school orientation to the Big Picture Education design. Two other schools - not in the same region - were connected to the project because of their longer history with BPEA and the leadership and influence they could provide the other participating schools.