Developing Digital Literacies Evaluation Logic Model Template

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Developing Digital Literacies Evaluation Logic
Model Template
INPUTS OUTPUTS (PROCESS)
RESULTS (OUTCOMES)
Emerging EVIDENCE
What we invest/do
Tangible, measureable intermediate benefits
Immediate outputs/ deliverables
Longer term impact
A journey /transformation indicated by changes in
awareness, behaviour, activities, processes,
skills, learning, practices, systems, that
evidence progress towards strategic aims/goals
DEFINED IN THE PROJECT
IDENTIFIED AS KEY INDICATORS
DEFINED IN THE PROJECT AIMS/GOALS/VISION
DEFINES WHAT OUTCOMES WILL LOOK LIKE
USUALLY DEFINED
PROPOSAL
Enhanced institutional capacity enhanced
capabilities of target individuals/ groups
PROJECT PLAN
IN THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES
MAY BE DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS
DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS
DATA GATHERING ANALYSIS CAPTURES THE EVIDENCE
Project boundary
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS defines the current
variable context and challenges influencing
what we do and what we achieve
ASSUMPTIONS that developing digital literacies
helps progress towards strategic vision/goals,
e.g. improves student employability
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Evaluating PROCESSES OUTCOMES from the Logic
Model

• Inputs show what is invested (by the institution,
  by JISC, others) and RESULTS (outputs outcomes)
  indicate the worth or value (for money) of
  doing it.
• An output is a product/result/deliverable of
  the projects activities (cf. Project Plan)
• (e.g. workshops run, surveys undertaken,
  reports/websites/resources produced, a prototype
  service, a tool, a protocol, a standard, a
  strategy/policy)
• gtgt PROCESS EVALUATION looks at the approaches
  and efficacy of what is done, to whom and how
  that was experienced (by stakeholders usually)
  (relates to questions about how well we worked?
  lessons learned)
• An outcome is a valued change short term (e.g.
  enhanced awareness or skills gained), medium term
  (e.g. Improved behaviour, activities, processes,
  and long term (e.g. strategic impact/success)
• Different outcomes would be recognised and valued
  by different external stakeholders and will
  therefore require different approaches and
  messages for dissemination.
• gtgt OUTCOMES EVALUATION looks at what resulted,
  gathers data concerning intended (and unexpected)
  outcomes and maps to key indicators identified
  for those outcomes across an appropriate timeline
  (e.g. institutional/group/individual journeys).
• Projects need to be able to explain the logic of
  the relations between their outputs and outcomes
  and to say how they plan to help other
  people/agencies transform project outputs into
  desired outcomes.