Title: LOGIC MODELS Everything you wanted to know about logic models but were afraid to ask?
1LOGIC 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
2What 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.
3What 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.
4What 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?
5What is a logic model?
- Read left to right
- Describe programs basics over time from planning
through results - If,then statements connect the programs parts
6What 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.
7Why 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.
8How would you use the logic model?
9How would you use the logic model?
Do this exercise RIGHT to LEFT and then read left
to right.
10How would you use a logic model?
11Advantages
- 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
12Disadvantages
- 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?
13Case 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
14Case 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?
15Case 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)
16Case 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
17Case Study - Findings
18Case 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.
19Case 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.
20Case 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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