What an eight-year-old can teach us about logic modelling and mainstreaming

Abstract

This article presents a short case narrative, the purpose of which is to illustrate that complex evaluation methodologies such as logic modelling can be simplified to the point where a child can be guided through the process quickly. However, the case narrative also serves to highlight the potential consequences to program development and evaluation activities when the process is oversimplified. Like a double-edged sword, simplifying the process encourages more organizations to use a logic model to develop and evaluate programs, but, in hindsight, the simplicity may lead to program architectures that have little opportunity of demonstrating success or to evaluations that may be off the mark. Copyright © 2007 Canadian Evaluation Society.