The Logic Model Guidebook: Better Strategies for Great Results

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.

Author: Lisa Wyatt Knowlton,Cynthia C. Phillips
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 08/24/2012
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781452216751

About the Author

Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, Ed.D.

Lisa received a B.A. in International Relations from Michigan State University, a M.P.A. in International Relations from Western Michigan University, and an Ed.D. in Management and Policy from Western Michigan University. She has experience in both the public and private sectors. Her work history includes extensive assignments in programming and management of private, community and corporate philanthropy as well as organizational development and government relations. She has managed many large social change projects as well as assignments with the Aspen Institute, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Independent Sector, Ball, Nokomis. W. K. Kellogg and Kauffman Foundations. Lisa is a W.K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellow and has considerable experience in Central America, Asia and Europe. A passion for learning and performance management supports her areas of specialization. They include strategy, organization development, social marketing, leadership, change management and systems thinking. Lisa is a strategy architect, project leader and learning coach with Phillips Wyatt Knowlton, Inc. She also speaks Spanish. You can reach her via e-mail at: lisawk@pwkinc.com. She lives in Battle Creek and Glenn, Michigan.

Cynthia C. Phillips, Ph.D.

Cynthia received a B.S. in Biology & Chemistry from Indiana University, an M.A. in Educational Leadership from Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. in Measurement, Research & Evaluation from Western Michigan University. She has a rich work history that includes extensive consultation with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Ball Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Nokomis, Kauffman, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundations in the design and implementation of evaluation, evaluation training and knowledge management projects. She is the author of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development Guide. Cynthia is a sought-after presenter on logic models and knowledge management. Her areas of specialization and expertise include: evaluation/measurement; knowledge management; organizational learning; logic models, quantitative and qualitative methods; electronic data collection and dissemination. Cynthia offers a user-friendly approach to evaluation capacity building. She is principal investigator, project manager, idea engineer and measurement expert with Phillips Wyatt Knowlton, Inc. You can reach her via e-mail at: cynthiap@pwkinc.com. She lives in Richland, Michigan, with her husband, Dennis.

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