Theories of Change

Readings due before class on Monday, September 16, 2019

Required

• Chapter 2 in Impact Evaluation in PracticePaul J. Gertler et al., Impact Evaluation in Practice, 2nd ed. (Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank, 2016), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.
  
  
• Chapter 3 in Evaluation: A Systematic Approach.Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, and Gary T. Henry, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, 8th ed. (Los Angeles: Sage, 2019).
  
  This is available on iCollege.

Additional pre-class assignment

Choose a social program that you’re interested in. Draw a logic model or results chain that is as detailed as you can get it, including all the inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes you can think of. This doesn’t have to be perfect—we’ll talk about it and critique and improve it in class.

You can do this by hand or with something like Draw.io, Lucidchart, or Creately.