| Session Title: Rejecting the Traditional Outputs, Intermediate and Final Outcomes Logic Modeling Approach and Building More Stakeholder-friendly Visual Outcomes Models |
| Demonstration Session 583 to be held in Panzacola Section G2 on Friday, Nov 13, 3:35 PM to 4:20 PM |
| Sponsored by the Program Theory and Theory-driven Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Paul Duignan, Massey University Auckland, paul@parkerduignan.com |
| Abstract: Helping stakeholder groups construct logic models continues to cause frustration related to teaching stakeholders the difference between terms traditionally used in such modeling - outputs, intermediate and final outcomes. Using outcomes theory, the function of these terms in logic modeling can be identified; it is to: 1) encourage the identification of outcomes 'further-up' the causal chain; and, 2) identify what is demonstrably attributable to a particular project (the 'outputs' layer). The traditional approach distorts the causality portrayed in the logic model by structuring its lower levels based on demonstrable attribution. Both of these functions can be achieved more effectively by constructing free-form visual outcomes models (e.g. in DoView outcomes and evaluation software) that are easier for stakeholders to draw and understand, and then subsequently mapping onto them what is demonstrably attributable to a particular program. How to do this for evaluation, monitoring, contracting and other purposes will be demonstrated. http://www.tinyurl.com/ot233. |