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The Getting to Outcomes (GTO) Implementation and Process Evaluation Tools: Conceptual Basis and Overview
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| Presenter(s):
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| Jason Katz, University of South Carolina, katzj@email.sc.edu
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| Victoria Chien, University of South Carolina, victoria.chien@gmail.com
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| Duncan Meyers, University of South Carolina, meyersd@mailbox.sc.edu
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| Jonathan Scaccia, University of South Carolina, scacciaj@email.sc.edu
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| Annie Wright, University of South Carolina, patriciaannwright@yahoo.com
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| Sheara Fernando, University of South Carolina, fernando@mailbox.sc.edu
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| Pamela Imm, University of South Carolina, pamimm@windstream.net
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| Abraham Wandersman, University of South Carolina, wandersman@sc.edu
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| Abstract:
We will begin by providing a summary of the conceptual basis for our work -- Getting To Outcomes (GTO), a comprehensive programming framework that integrates planning, implementation, and evaluation. Next, the need for systematic implementation and process evaluation tools, which is part of a larger strategy of expanding the utility of GTO for practitioners, will be discussed. We will present and describe the “value-added” of two implementation tools: an implementation checklist and an implementation measurement template. Then, we will highlight how the implementation tools fit with GTO’s emphasis on integrating planning, implementation, and evaluation by describing the extension of the implementation tools to the 1) prospective use of the implementation tools for planning a program, 2) real-time use of the implementation tools for program monitoring, and 3) retrospective use of implementation tools for evaluating the role of quality of implementation for process evaluation and outcome evaluation purposes.
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