Using Logic Modeling to Focus Evaluation Efforts
Jeanne B. Stinchcomb · Journal of Offender Rehabilitation · 2001
De spite con siderable ad vo cacy for the prin ci ples of the - ory-based eval u a tion, in prac tice such ap proaches are of ten more con cep - tual than op er a tional. This ar ti cle ex plores how the ory-based eval u a tion can ad vance be yond the ideo log i cal stage through the ve hi cle of logic mod el - ing. Il lus tra tions from cor rec tional in ter ven tions are used to dem on strate how pro gram the ory, in ter ven tion pro cesses, and eval u a tion meth od ol ogy can be united through mod els that vi sually dis play hy pothesized causal link ages. Both the prag matic and the the o ret i cal util ity of logic mod el ing are ad dressed, par tic u larly in terms of how it can help to bridge gaps be - tween re search ers and ad min is tra tors, guide op er a tional im prove ments, and more ef fec tively align pol icy-mak ing with re search find ings, thereby con - trib ut ing to the on-go ing pro cesses of both the ory-build ing and pol icy de - vel op ment.