10/15 - Logic Model Results

Today, we were doing a progress check of grades so far. I handed out progress report slips that I made for students while other people helped me return work that had been assessed.

In their writer's journals, everyone then responded to the following:

Write a list of work that you need to complete or revise based on your progress slip.

Write down any questions that you have for me about your work.

After everyone had a chance to respond to this prompt, I reviewed some general comments related to "The Smartest Man in America" reading responses and the logic model results section (see below).


Everyone then got in their project teams to focus more specifically on revising their outputs, outcomes, and impacts sections of their logic model.

In reviewing the sheets that had been turned in, I had noticed some confusion around the definitions of these steps so we reviewed definitions (using Willy Wonka's everlasting gobstoppers as a product example) and then had teams revise what they listed for their outputs, outcomes, and impacts. Notes on these definitions are as follows:

Outputs - The product that results from the team's activities. This is something that can be directly observed and often counted or measured.
Ex: The everlasting gobstoppers. It's something you can see, touch, and taste and it's easy to say how many were produced.

Outcomes - The effect that the product has / The immediate difference it makes.
Ex: Wonka sells gobstoppers to people at a cheap price and then they are happy and feel good because they have candy. (If they have too many there could be some problems with hyperactivity or cavities).

Impacts - The big, overall change that occurs within the larger system or organization.
Ex: Because people can easily afford gobstoppers and because they are everlasting everyone is happier in general and no one feels like having a low income means they miss out on the nicer things in life.

Everlasting Gobstopper - An output
whose outcomes effect those that eat it
which impacts the society they live in)

The results section is essentially a ripple effect. The product starts the ripple which reaches out to those who receive or use the product, and then those effects are transferred to the whole of society.

So, in short:
Outputs - The product that the project team produces.
Outcomes - The effect the product has on others.
Impacts - The way that the product's effects change society.

Project teams had the rest of the period to work on revising the results section of their logic model with this new understanding of the outputs, outcomes, and impacts in mind.

In the last five minutes of class, I reviewed the contact log that groups will be using to keep track of who they get in touch with.

Homework:

Complete your revisions for the results sheet.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

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