Logic models and basic evaluation

Logic models and basic evaluation

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  LOGIC MODELS (AND OTHERBASIC EVALUATION IDEAS)
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  LOGIC MODEL -the graphic depiction of the relationship between your activities and their intended effects
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  Headache (SITUATION) Get Pills (INPUT) Take Pills (OUTPUT) FeelBetter (OUTCOME)
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  Why use alogic model?
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  What is the situation? What are wegoing to do? PLANNING
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  Get everybody on the samepage. Build understanding & promote consensus about what the program is and how it will work. Make your underlying assumptions explicit. Summarize complex projects to communicate with stakeholders and funders.
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  WHO is goingto do WHAT, WHEN, WHY, and TO WHAT STANDARD?
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  Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely
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  Limitations of LogicModels
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  They represent reality,but are not reality. Human relationships are not mathematical formulas.
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  Programs/projects are notlinear. Nothing ever goes exactly as planned.
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  Logic models focuson expected outcomes, not on actual outcomes (positive or negative unintended consequences).
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  They have atendency to assess what is easiest to measure rather than what is most valuable.
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  There can becausal attribution issues -- variables may not be isolated and many factors are influencing outcomes.
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  Logic models don’taddress whether you are doing the right thing, only what you did.
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  Other Things toRemember
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  Your THEORY OFCHANGE should not be too complex.
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  "I think youshould be more explicit here in step two." Cartoon by Sidney Harris Be realistic.
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  We tend tovalue what we measure, so we must be sure to measure what we value.
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  Never convey a numberwithout a story; never a story without a number. Image: Sam Brown, http://www.explodingdog.com/
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