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This book, from SAGE’s Evaluation in Practice series, considers variants of experimental evaluation designs, including those that are not commonly used but could be with much greater frequency. It also includes instructions for how to set up such experiments within program processes to learn about the effects of improvement efforts.
Conceptual Framework: From Program Logic Model to Evaluation Logic Model
Conceptual Framework: From Program Logic Model to Evaluation Logic Model
This chapter presents a framework for thinking about the aspects of a program that drive its impacts and how to evaluate the relative contributions of those aspects. I present two perspectives—a program operator’s perspective and an evaluator’s perspective—the program logic model and the evaluation logic model.
Program operators are keenly familiar with the concept of the logic model because funders tend to require it, and because it is the underpinning to most evaluation work.1 In recent years, scholars and practitioners alike have tended to use the term logic model interchangeably with a theory of change. They are not the same. A logic model articulates a program’s inputs, activities, output, and outcomes; a theory of change ...
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