I have attached the logic model I used for this course along with a literature review. You are to conduct an evaluation plan using these papers.
Instructions: The evaluation plan ties together the previous two assignments, summarizing the evidence that underlies the intervention and outlining the theory of change and core elements of the logic model. The third and new element of the plan describes how to capture and measure the outputs and outcomes articulated in the logic model. Keep in mind that the audience for your evaluation plan is the director of the program intervention itself, so part of your goal is to demonstrate your familiarity with the intervention and your ability to capture and describe its impact to outside stakeholders, particularly potential new program partners and funders.
When planning your evaluation strategy, it is important to consider timeline, budgetary constraints and resource allocation for a one-year period. Data collection and analysis will need to wrap up at least two months prior to the end of the year in order to allow sufficient time for analysis and report drafting and revision.
Background about the assignment: The final project for this policy analysis and evidence generation course is designed to mimic a real-world scenario in which your team competes to win an evaluation contract with a direct service provider. In essence, your team is striving to convey to the service provider that you have a strong understanding of the research and theory of change that underly their intervention, along with a robust strategy for capturing both process and impact outcomes that will enable your team to demonstrate the real impact of the intervention on participants. Keep in mind, the service provider already believes their program works – your task is to structure an evaluation design that will convince other stakeholders that this program is worth their investment. That is what you are “pitching” to the service provider.
Students will first work to cull the existing evidence behind one of two well-known cognitive interventions, then work to design a logic model to frame how these interventions take form in real-world programs, and construct an evaluation plan to capture and analyze key outcomes to demonstrate their impact(s) on several cohorts of clients.
This is what my project subject is:
Rikers Rovers is an Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) intervention on Rikers Island in which select “houses” on Rikers are assigned a shelter dog to foster, train, and care for. At the end of the program, the participants select a home in the community to adopt the dog. It is important to note that AAT is a form of SEL, so the impacts expected from the program are similar to those of the Recharge project.
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