Learn to create a program logic model. Designed for Cooperative Extension Service professionals providing university outreach programs. Logic models are a mainstay in the program development process for community-based, outreach programs.
7. Importance of issue
How issue was identified
How education can help
A target audience
Intended outcomes
Needs
Assets
Priorities
Stakeholders involved
8.
9. Long term impacts –
What big effects would
you expect?
Medium term outcomes
– What clientele actions
would you expect?
Short term outcomes –
What learning would you
expect?
Conditions - Social, civic,
economic, environmental
Action - Behavior, practice,
policy, decision-making, social
action
Learning - Awareness,
knowledge, attitudes, skills,
opinions, aspirations,
motivations
10.
11. ACTIVITIES - WHAT WE DO
Conduct workshops, meetings
Provide service
Develop products, curriculum,
resources
Train
Assess
Facilitate
Partner
Information via social marketing
and media
PARTICIPATION - WHO WE REACH
Participants
Clients
Agencies
Decision-makers
Customers
12.
13. WHAT WE INVEST Staff
Volunteers
Time
Money
Research base
Materials
Equipment
Technology
Partners
14.
15. ASSUMPTIONS
Beliefs
Our ideas about the situation
The way the program will
operate
What we expect the program to
achieve
How participants learn and
behave
Resources and staff
External and internal
environment
EXTERNAL FACTORS
Aspects influencing program
Aspects influenced by program
Cultural milieu, values
Biophysical and political
environments
Economic structure
Demographic makeup
Family and farm circumstances
Experiences of participants
Media, policy and priorities
16.
17. Provides program description that guides
evaluation process that helps to:
know what and when to measure
match evaluation to the program
focus on key, important information
18.
19.
20. Does the logic model:
Include a listing of all inputs that will be
needed for the program?
Include details of the activities listed?
Include a list of characteristics and intended
number of targeted participants?
Make sequential and logical connections
between inputs, outputs and outcomes?
Barkman, Susan J., (2000). Utilizing the Logic Model for Program Design and Evaluation. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University:
21. Do Targeted Outcome(s):
Help fulfill Extension’s mission?
Represent meaningful benefits or changes for participants?
Seem reasonable as a result of program participants in a
non-trivial way?
Clearly define the intended scope of the program’s
influence?
Help educator identify both points of success and problems
the program can correct?
Provide data that is likely to be effective in communicating
benefits to stakeholders?
Barkman, Susan J., (2000). Utilizing the Logic Model for Program Design and Evaluation. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University:
24. University of Wisconsin Extension Service’s
Welcome to Enhancing Program Performance
with Logic Models
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/pdf/lmcourseall.pdf