How many evaluators does it take to change a light bulb? January 9, 2010
Posted by Paul Duignan in : Communicating outcomes models, Using the approach, Outcomes models , trackbackIn response to a series of ‘How many evaluators does it take to change a light bulb?’ jokes on the evaluators list EVALTALK, I whipped up an outcomes model (logic model) for a Changing Light Bulbs Project (some days one does wonder if this is what evaluators do for fun, it must be some sort of illness!).
Anyway here it is http://www.outcomesmodels.org/models/lightbulb62.html
Paul Duignan, PhD. (Follow me on my Outcomes Blog; Twitter; or via my E-Newsletter).
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Funny example - thank you.
I spend quite a lot of time thinking about how to best communicate concepts in the work that I’m doing, in particular the power of outcomes modeling (logic modeling). The tension is always whether to use a real example (an potentially not speak to people from sectors where it is not relevant) or to use a fictitious example such as the light-bulb changing example as I’ve done in the example above. That then risks the possibility that people think it is flippant. So when presenting about this approach I tend to use both. Glad that you liked it.