Activity: From Goals to Outcomes to Measurements

    Write down your goals for your participatory project for the institution, participants, and audience. For each goal, brainstorm five outcomes that you would expect to see if that goal was achieved. For each outcome, determine how you might measure its incidence. Consider the overall blend of measurements, and work in the opposite direction, making sure that together, the proposed measurements will allow you to comprehensively assess your ability to reach your goals. Over the course of your project, your understanding of appropriate outcomes, indicators, and measures may change, but your goals should stay constant. (This is good exercise. Might be useful to have related case study demonstrating the sequence, or actual evaluation chart. SB) (I might add that it's okay if the process leads to changed goals, but in that case you are really dropping the original project and starting a new one.  MK)

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