| Session Title: Incorporating Values Into Program Theory and Logic Models |
| Demonstration Session 351 to be held in Avalon A on Thursday, Nov 3, 1:35 PM to 2:20 PM |
| Sponsored by the Program Theory and Theory-driven Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Patricia Rogers, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, patricia.rogers@rmit.edu.au |
| Abstract: Logic models are commonly used to communicate how programs and projects are understood to work - articulating the change mechanisms involved in producing the intended outcomes, and how program activities have been constructed to activate these mechanisms. However it can be difficult to identify diverse values about what are desirable and undesirable standards of performance, outcomes/impacts, processes and distributions of costs and benefits, and even harder to represent these in logic models and use them in evaluations. This demonstration will share examples where diverse values have not only been identified, but incorporated in logic models, program logic matrices and evaluation plans. It includes examples from diverse sectors including labor, aged care, early childhood early intervention and natural resource management. The session will discuss how values might be addressed differently depending on the intended use for program theory and the nature of the intervention - in particular its complicated or complex aspects. |