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The Logic Model Guidebook
Better Strategies for Great Results

Second Edition

Examines the structures, processes, and language of logic models as an emerging tool that improves the design, development, and implementation of change efforts within programs and greater organizational initiatives.

June 2013 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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The Logic Model Guidebook offers clear, step-by-step support for creating logic models and the modeling process in a range of contexts. Lisa Wyatt Knowlton and Cynthia C. Phillips describe the structures, processes, and language of logic models as a robust tool to improve the design, development, and implementation of program and organization change efforts. The text is enhanced by numerous visual learning guides (sample models, checklists, exercises, worksheets) and many new case examples. The authors provide students, practitioners, and beginning researchers with practical support to develop and improve models that reflect knowledge, practice, and beliefs. The Guidebook offers a range of new applied examples. The text includes logic models for evaluation, discusses archetypes, and explores display and meaning. In an important contribution to programs and organizations, it emphasizes quality by raising issues like plausibility, feasibility, and strategic choices in model creation.

 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
PART I. CONSTRUCTION
 
1. Introducing Logic Models
 
2. Building and Improving Theory of Change Logic Models
 
3. Creating Program Logic Models
 
4. Modeling: Improving Program Logic Models
 
PART II. APPLICATIONS
 
5. Logic Models for Evaluation
 
6. Display and Meaning
 
7. Exploring Archetypes
 
8. Action Profiles
 
Name Index
 
Subject Index

I did not adopt the book for this semester but am still thinking about adopting it in the fall.

Dr Jacquelyn Owens
Nursing Dept, West Chester Univ Of Penn
February 27, 2015
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This textbook provides a higher level of explanation of logic models than those found in other textbooks

Professor Mary Siegrist
School Of Health Sciences, Ohio University
December 5, 2013
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Nice book. May decide to make it "recommended".

Dr Curtis Kerry
Business Administration Dept, Golden Gate University
December 4, 2013
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A thorough overview of various logic models and their application, helpful for practitioners who wish to constract a logical framework for the own social action project or for application of a logic model for action's evaluation.

Mrs Beata Kviatek - Simanska
School of Communication & Media, Hanze University
April 10, 2013
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Support class learning. - Great tool for learning the process of the Logic Model. I will adopt in future classes.

Alisha Bradley
Florida State University

Ms Alisha Bradley-Nelson
School Of Social Work, Florida State University
March 12, 2013
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Key features

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

· Includes more than a dozen new field profiles of model use as well as 16 new model examples for greater understanding of applications discussed in the book

· An entirely new Chapter 8 presents profiles of model use from international development work, sustainability, public health, corporate giving, and civic engagement and more, illustrating real world applications.

· Chapters 6, 7, and 8 include new models and expanded topic coverage to better support readers in constructing models for strategy development and evaluation planning.

FEATURES & BENEFITS:

· Compares "theory of change" models with program logic models.

· Walks the reader through the five common parts of a program logic model.

· Supports learning through step-by-step process articulation, checklists, exercises, sample models, and worksheets.

· Suggests ways to improve draft logic models by providing the steps for an iterative model review and development process.

· Presents case studies to describe and display variations in logic model use, a glossary, additional readings, web resources, and numerous templates for practical use.

Sample Materials & Chapters

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