Evaluation Assessment

Comments on Logic Model

I will keep trying (and also watching to see if anyone has advice for me) to upload the actual document/chart of my logic model or a readable image of it or something, but in the mean time, here are some comments and explanations.

This is a snapshot of the CLS summer school as I see it. I have been involved in the design and implementation since the beginning. The bulk of the logic model comes from my own perceptions of what we have been trying to accomplish, though I have also talked with two of the directors that have also been involved since the beginning (to varying degrees) to see if I am on the right path - more so for input into the evaluation plan that will be posted shortly (in text form!).

What is primarily missing from the chart is the inputs since that made the most sense to me (considering we are immersed in a facility wide strategic planning panic right now and thus - in my brain). So...to list inputs is easy: staff, money, venue for meetings/lectures, beamlines for practical sessions, social venues, time.

To be a little more specific, there is staff input regarding the logistics of event planning (room bookings, hospitality, registrations, budgeting etc); staff that develops the scientific program in collaboration with the SR community; and collaboration between aforementioned staff and user community for promotion. some of the class documents mention that the list of activities should be specific in listing who does each activity. I chose not to do that because most would be listed as, "a collaboration of administrative and scientific staff and user community". Most of the other inputs are pretty self explanatory.

So, in a nutshell, I am using this snapshot of the program to design an evaluation. There was no needs assessment at the beginning so I have only documents, notes, and correspondence to formulate a concept of what was initially intended (to compare to what we 'remember' we intended to do :) and there has been much formative evaluation in the form of feedback surveys and debriefing meetings so it seems time to do a formal, summative evaluation :), but that will be the next blog ...

I don't know if it actually helps but I've uploaded the word document here: http://www.lightsource.ca/files/details.php?id=2060 so you can at least look at it.

Logic Model

So yes, if you were paying attention :), I changed my mind. During the last class I said I was interested in evaluating the tours program. Well, I decided that would not be nearly as interesting or as useful as evaluating the facility's summer school (of which I am one of the Co-Organizers annually). It is our fifth school so I think it's time for an outcomes/outputs formative/summative evaluation. Are we doing what we set out to do (summative)? What are we missing that we need to attend to (formative)? And yes, I have the facility's support to implement this (or at least a version of this) even though I'm not registered for the class next term - only because I have all the required credits and I need to focus on the thesis :).

Now just to figure out how to post a document.

I can add a video or picture ...
A picture it is ... can you read it?