Practice:

Develop a theory of action for your program

Key Action: Create a logic model to explicitly connect your activities
and goals

SAMPLE MATERIAL: Testing Your Logic Model Against SMART and FIT Goals

Purpose: Evaluating the outputs and outcomes in your logic model

using SMART and FIT principles can help uncover and
correct flaws.

Source: Modeling: Improving Program Logic Models. (2009). In

K. W. Knowlton & C. C. Phillips (Eds.) The Logic Model
Guidebook: Better Strategies for Great Results, Los
Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Questions for reflection

SMART and FIT Principles

1. How could you re-word the SMART principles into questions
that apply to the outcomes in your logic model?
2. How could you re-word the FIT principles into questions that
apply to the outputs or activities in your logic model?
3. Why is it important to “test” or question your logic model using
these principles?
4. According to Knowlton and Phillips, what is “treatment trickle?”
What might treatment trickle look like in your magnet program?

The Mark-up Process

The “mark-up” process is used to clarify thinking about your logic model, raise important questions, and
suggest more strategic choices, all of which may improve the model.
1. Which stakeholders are needed to raise important context is-
sues? Why is it important for external evaluators to be aware
of these issues?
2. In what ways might the questions derived from SMART and
FIT principles be useful for generating discussion about the
logic model? What kinds of conversations are likely to emerge
based on these principles?
3. What kinds of revisions might be made to logic model after
these questions are raised?

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Practice: Develop a theory of action for your program
Key Action: Create a logic model to explicitly connect your activities
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Practice: Develop a theory of action for your program
Key Action: Create a logic model to explicitly connect your activities
and goals