Practice: Develop a theory of action for your program Key Action: Create a logic model to explicitly connect your activities and goals SAMPLE MATERIAL: Testing Your Logic Model Against SMART and FIT Goals Purpose: Evaluating the outputs and outcomes in your logic model using SMART and FIT principles can help uncover and correct flaws. Source: Modeling: Improving Program Logic Models. (2009). In K. W. Knowlton & C. C. Phillips (Eds.) The Logic Model Guidebook: Better Strategies for Great Results, Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc. Questions for reflection SMART and FIT Principles 1. How could you re-word the SMART principles into questions that apply to the outcomes in your logic model? 2. How could you re-word the FIT principles into questions that apply to the outputs or activities in your logic model? 3. Why is it important to “test” or question your logic model using these principles? 4. According to Knowlton and Phillips, what is “treatment trickle?” What might treatment trickle look like in your magnet program? The Mark-up Process The “mark-up” process is used to clarify thinking about your logic model, raise important questions, and suggest more strategic choices, all of which may improve the model. 1. Which stakeholders are needed to raise important context issues? Why is it important for external evaluators to be aware of these issues? 2. In what ways might the questions derived from SMART and FIT principles be useful for generating discussion about the logic model? What kinds of conversations are likely to emerge based on these principles? 3. What kinds of revisions might be made to logic model after these questions are raised? 1 Practice: Develop a theory of action for your program Key Action: Create a logic model to explicitly connect your activities and goals 2 Practice: Develop a theory of action for your program Key Action: Create a logic model to explicitly connect your activities and goals 3 Practice: Develop a theory of action for your program Key Action: Create a logic model to explicitly connect your activities and goals 4 Practice: Develop a theory of action for your program Key Action: Create a logic model to explicitly connect your activities and goals 5
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