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Title: LOGIC MODELS Everything you wanted to know about logic models but were afraid to ask?


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LOGIC MODELSEverything you wanted to know about
logic models but were afraid to ask?
  • Stephanie K. Goodwin, RD
  • Professional Presentation
  • Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation
  • January 23rd, 2008

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What is a logic model?
  • A. A framework for theory driven programming and
    evaluation based on the detailed connection
    between the activities provided and the outcomes
    that you hope to accomplish.
  • B. A systematic and visual way to present the
    relationship between your planned work and your
    intended results.
  • C. A reasonable person employed to pose for an
    artist, photographer or to display clothes.

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What is a logic model?
A systematic and visual way to present and share
your understanding of the relationships
among a. the resources you have to operate
your program b. the activities you plan c.
the changes or results you hope to achieve.
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What is a logic model?
  • A logic model will answer these questions
  • 1. What are you trying to achieve and why is it
    important?
  • 2. How will you measure effectiveness?
  • 3. How are you actually doing?

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What is a logic model?
  • Read left to right
  • Describe programs basics over time from planning
    through results
  • If,then statements connect the programs parts

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What is the purpose of a logic model?
  • Purpose to provide stakeholders with a road
    map describing the sequence of related events
    connecting the need for the planned program with
    the programs desired results.
  • Preferred approach to developing performance
    measures
  • -governmental
  • -public
  • -private sectors.

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Why Use a Logic Model?
  • 1. Strategic and Program Planning
  • - Identify your vision, rationale behind your
    program , and how your program will work.
  • 2. Effective Communication
  • - Provide a snapshot view of your program and
    intended outcomes.
  • 3. Evaluation Planning
  • - Basic framework for an evaluation with
    outcomes in measurable terms.
  • 4. Continuous Learning and Improvement
  • - Point of reference against which progress
    towards achievement of desired outcomes can be
    measured on an ongoing basis.

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How would you use the logic model?
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How would you use the logic model?
Do this exercise RIGHT to LEFT and then read left
to right.
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How would you use a logic model?
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Advantages
  • Linear Approach simple and straightforward
  • - shows the chain of events that link inputs to
    results
  • - brings detail to broad goals
  • Validity used over the past 20 years
  • Builds understanding and consensus
  • Identifies gaps in logic and uncertain
    assumptions
  • Signals what to evaluate and when
  • Summarizes a complex program to communicate with
    externals

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Disadvantages
  • Represents reality, but its not reality
  • Programs are not linear
  • Focuses on expected outcomes
  • Challenge of causal attribution
  • Many factors influence outcomes
  • Doesnt address Are we doing the right thing?

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Case StudyHow is a logic model used in the real
world?
  • A city initiative to improve the quality of life
    for urban youth how evaluation contributed to
    effective social programming.
  • Authors Rex S. Green, Peter M. Ellis, Shirly S.
    Lee.
  • Journal Evaluation and Program Planning 28
    (2005) 83-94

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Case Study
  • Social programs and their policies aim to improve
    the welfare of individuals, organizations and
    society.
  • 1. How are these social programs assessed?
  • 2. How do we know as stakeholders that the
    program is actually effective?

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Case Study
  • What To improve Kids First! Initiative (to
    improve quality of life for urban youth).
  • Where City of Oakland, CA
  • When January, 2001.
  • Grant proposals 2003 2004.
  • Why Switch the emphasis from doing good to
    doing better.
  • How By using the performance logic model (PLM)
    to guide evaluation efforts.
  • Who Community Crime Prevention Associates (CCPA)

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Case Study
  • Program Logic Model (PLM)
  • To guide evaluation efforts
  • Methods for data collection were analyzed
  • Data collection
  • Data summarized
  • Data analyzed and utilized
  • Stakeholder collaborations

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Case Study - Findings
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Case StudyOverall Impact
  • - Too early to tell
  • - There were five positive changes overall and
    two negative, yielding a non-significant result,
    pgt0.0.5.
  • - Six of the variables changes for the better
    from 1998 1999 to 1999 2000, then for the
    worse in the following year.
  • - CCP (the evaluators hired) learned a lot about
    what their stakeholders (the program that hired
    them) wanted to know and how to present the
    information to them.

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Case Study Bottom Line PLM Works!
  • The combination of a communitys willingness to
    rely on evaluative feedback to choose service
    providers and the development of comprehensive,
    accurate feedback in a timely manner seems a
    viable alternative to highly subjective
    evaluations of government-run agencies efforts.

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Case StudyMy Opinion does it count?
  • Objective vs. Subjective
  • Moving from doing good to doing better.
  • The details
  • Feedback taking your own advice
  • Time

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