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3.2: What is Theory of Change? – Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models

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Home » Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models » Section 3: More about Your Program “Logic” » 3.2: What is Theory of Change? As we saw in the previous sections, a logic model shows: How are resources, activities, participation, and outcomes linked? Simple models often depict a single chain of relationships: A leads to B leads to C. In this section, we will see that multiple paths and directional flows may more realistically depict programs. This series of connections can be called chain of objectives (Suchman, 1967), contingency relationships or outcome hierarchies (Funnel, 2000), program hierarchy (Bennett, 1976; Rockwell and Bennett, 1998), means-end hierarchy (Patton, 1997), chain of outcomes (United Way of America, 1996), heuristic of program objectives (Mayeske, 1994). We often say that we expect our programs to “cause” the desired change or “produce” the desired results. In fact, many factors affect how our programs develop and occur, and work with and, sometimes, work ag

As we saw in the previous sections, a logic model shows: The series of connections or logical relationships … How are resources, activities, participation, and outcomes linked? Simple models often depict a single chain of relationships: A leads to B leads to C. In this section, we will see that multiple paths and directional flows may more realistically depict programs. This series of connections can be called chain of objectives (Suchman, 1967), contingency relationships or outcome hierarchies (Funnel, 2000), program hierarchy (Bennett, 1976; Rockwell and Bennett, 1998), means-end hiera

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