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Outcome-Based Evaluation
A Working Model for Arts Projects

Section 3: Evaluating the Project

 
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Now that you have defined what your project will provide, to whom, and the intended results or benefits, you should develop a structure to evaluate the project. The process of evaluating whether a project is achieving its intended outcomes involves the construction of an evaluation plan – sometimes known as an outcomes logic model.

An outcomes logic model is simply a step-by-step approach for measuring project impact. It shows the relationship between project activities and the results these activities produce.

 
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There are nine elements to the logic model (only five need be addressed in an NEA grant application; see note below). The nine elements are described in the pages that follow and include: project “inputs,” “activities and services,” “outputs,” “outcomes,” “indicators,” “data source,” “applied to,” “data intervals,” and “target.”

 

   

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