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Mapping Information Literacy: Using Concept Mapping to Evaluate Nurses’ Sources of Health Information
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| Louise C Miller,
University of Missouri,
lmiller@missouri.edu
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| Melissa J Poole,
University of Missouri,
poolem@missouri.edu
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Program planning follows a predicable flow from establishing need and assessing the target population to designing the program. Survey methodology is the mainstay for gathering data about need, readiness, and feasibility, using surveys designed by program administrators grounded in their experiences and factors identified in the literature. An alternative method of evaluation, concept mapping, has a number of advantages over the survey approach. It stimulates the generation of new ideas, helps expert practitioners to articulate tacit knowledge grounded in practice, and makes that knowledge visible, displaying relationships of semantic units or concepts. Finally, the process itself engages members of the target population, using their own words and ideas to evaluate program needs. In this paper we report on the lessons learned while using concept mapping to create a conceptual model of information literacy for public health and school nursing practice.
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Using Standing Setting Procedures as a Means of Understanding Best Practice in Chronic Care Disease Management Programs
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| Janet Clinton,
University of Auckland,
j.clinton@auckland.ac.nz
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| Martin Connelly,
University of Auckland,
j.clinton@aucckland.ac.nz
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This paper describes how a standard setting procedure was applied to understand the evaluation of best practice in the management of chronic care diseases within number of within New Zealand. As a part of a large evaluation of chronic care programs, criteria for best practice were developed which relied on both an evidence base and a practice perspective. A standard setting process was used to understand the nature of best practice. Standard setting has long been an evaluation tool, especially to assess achievement in medical education. More recently it has been used more widely in program evaluation.
During a standard setting workshop providers identified aspects of best practice from exemplars of chronic care disease management programs. Responses were analyzed using multi-attribution analysis. The weighting of various attributes of chronic care programs allowed for the development of a set of criteria from which to judge best practice. This paper demonstrates that standard setting is a useful procedure for understanding best practice.
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The ‘Draw the Path’ Technique in Evaluation: Prospective, Mid-Program and End-of-Program Uses
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| Ross Conner,
University of California Irvine,
rfconner@uci.edu
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The ‘Draw the Path’ technique was developed and refined during the evaluation of several different health projects, when the need was end-of-program assessment. At its core, the technique involves program participants, both staff and clients, in the collaborative development of a logic model or theory of change, without explicitly naming or using these terms, as well as in the evaluative assessment of the program to that point. Following presentation of the technique at several recent international conferences, the author received positive reports of its successful use in different ways and contexts. The technique was used mid-program to look backward and forward, and it also provided start-of-program prospective judgments and ideas for program and evaluation planning, including use in program staff training. This AEA presentation will describe the technique and give examples of its use, as well as include a discussion of its benefits and limitations.
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Building a ‘World-centric’ Rather than ‘Program-centric’ Logic Model for a National Problem Gambling Strategy: Using Logic Modeling Software
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| Kate Averill,
FutureState,
kaverill@futurestate.co.nz
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| Paul W Duignan,
Parker Duignan Consulting,
paul@parkerduignan.com
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Developing a set of outcomes and indicators for a national problem gambling strategy illustrates the importance of how a logic model (outcomes model) is constructed. Logic models can be drawn either taking a ‘program-centric’ or a ‘world-centric’ approach. A 'world-centric’ approach first focuses on building a logic representing the world on which a set of programs are operating, rather than limiting the perspective to that of the programs in question. Once this has been done, the steps and outcomes different programs are attempting to influence can be mapped onto the model, as can be indicators at a range of levels. Using logic modeling software, a model was developed incorporating the different layers of outcomes (national, regional, individual, service, public health, research and evaluation). Lessons learnt for the best way of structuring national strategy logic models are discussed.
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