| Session Title: Using Outcomes Theory to Solve Important Conceptual and Practical Problems in Evaluation, Monitoring and Performance Management Systems |
| Expert Lecture Session 512 to be held in Sebastian Section L4 on Friday, Nov 13, 10:55 AM to 11:40 AM |
| Sponsored by the Theories of Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Paul Duignan, Massey University Auckland, paul@parkerduignan.com |
| Abstract: Many monitoring and evaluation systems have common conceptual problems that jeopardize their practical implementation, ultimately undermining the credibility and practical utility of such systems. Outcomes theory is a recently developed theory that covers the areas of evaluation, monitoring and performance management, and which sheds light on these problems. Such problems include the following: 1) purely indicator-based systems in which you cannot identify important, but currently not measured, outcomes; 2) the sometimes futile search for the non-output demonstrably attributable intermediate outcome; and, 3) systems which hold parties to account for non-demonstrably attributable indicators. Outcomes theory enables these problems to be easily identified and provides solutions to them based on ensuring that such systems have the requisite building-blocks required for sound evaluation, monitoring and performance management systems. By providing a common conceptual language across these different systems, outcomes theory can speed up the process of building better systems. See http://www.tinyurl.com/ot232. |