This represents the end of year 1 project report for the Scottish Quality Enhancement Theme: Evidence for Enhancement: Improving the Student experience of the Creative Arts Cluster. The collaborative cluster includes GSA, RCS, QMU, Edinburgh College of Art, Napier University, and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. The document outlines the initial scoping of the creative arts education territory in Scotland with respect to improving the evidence of the impact of Scotland's creative arts programmes. It looks at what measures are currently used, where this sits within the broader creative arts within the devolved context, why policy fragmentations are problematic for impact, and how the cultural ecology could provide a paradigm for communicating the impact of teaching the creative arts in higher education. (Pre-corrected proof)