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Seven-Step Approach to the Integrated Planning of Performance Measurement Step 1 by Michel Laurendeau

AEA365 Curator note: Today begins a special theme week with an extended (7 day) series on one topic by one contributing author.  Hello, my name is Michel Laurendeau, and I am a consultant wishing to share over 40 years of experience in policy development, performance measurement and evaluation of public programs. This is the first of …

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Considering Logic Model Inputs for Sustainability by Kirk Knestis

Kirk Knestis (Hezel Associates CEO) here again with more thoughts about ways logic models can inform an evaluator’s work and potentially benefit the program managers and innovation developers with whom we work. One area where I think our contributions may often be underutilized is that of sustainability of the evaluand programs or innovations we study. …

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Kicking Outputs out of Logic Models by Kirk Knestis

Kirk Knestis at Hezel Associates back with the promised “additional post” about logic models, this time challenging the orthodoxy of including “outputs” in such representations. Irrespective of the style of model used to illustrate the theory behind a program or other innovation, it’s been my experience that inclusion of “outputs” can create confusion, often decreasing …

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A Pathway to Logic Modeling Freedom by Kirk Knestis

Kirk Knestis, CEO of Hezel Associates and huge logic model fan, back on aea365 to share what I think are useful tweaks to a common logic modeling approach. I use these “Conditional Logic Models” to avoid traps common when evaluators work with clients to illustrate the theory of action of a program or innovation being …

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SNA TIG Week: John Burrett on a Cool trick: Mapping program logic with network analysis

Hi, I’m John Burrett, of Haiku Analytics Inc., Ottawa. One serious problem with logic models is that they usually leave out external influences and feedback effects, even when they may be important, because they make the model “too complex”. It is good to simplify, but ignoring important influences on program success when planning an evaluation …

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EEE Week: Mary Arnold on Program Theory: The Fuel for Logic Models

Hi! I’m Mary Arnold, a professor and 4-H youth development specialist at Oregon State University, where I spend the majority of my time in the area of program evaluation, especially in capacity building efforts. This is my second time preparing a blog post for the EEE-TIG, and the invitation came at a great time, because …

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CP TIG Week: Ann Price on (Re)Invigorating community coalition evaluation efforts

My name is Ann Price and I am the President of Community Evaluation Solutions, Inc.(CES), a consulting firm based just outside Atlanta, Georgia. I am a community psychologist and work to infuse environmental approaches into my work developing and evaluating community prevention programs. Much of my work involves working with community coalitions. Hot Tip: Appreciate …

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Shirah Hecht on System Mapping for Research Design

Hello, I’m Shirah Hecht, Ph.D,  Program Evaluator with Academic Technology Services within the Harvard University Info Tech area.  Here is a simple “trick” for beginning to develop a research design. I call this “system mapping.”  You may connect it to stakeholder analysis or concept mapping, since it blends the two in a way – but …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Are Logic Models Passé?

My name is Kylie Hutchinson.  I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation.  In addition to my usual evaluation contracts, I deliver regular webinars on evaluation topics, Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven, and co-host the monthly evaluation podcast, Adventures in Evaluation along with my colleague @JamesWCoyle. Logic models (logical frameworks, …

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