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A Logical Model to Evaluate Guidance Activities

Explore a logical model to evaluate and enhance school counseling programs, guiding activities to benefit students and inform counselors' practices daily.

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A Logical Model to Evaluate Guidance Activities

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  1. A Logical Model to Evaluate Guidance Activities Kathryn Leach and Brian Mathieson

  2. “My vision for the future of school counseling is to determine what programs and activities are most beneficial to students and to have school counselors implement these empirically supported interventions on a daily basis.” Dr. Susan Whiston, Indiana Univ.

  3. “You have to have at least some of what you do related to outcomes.” Dr. David Berliner, Arizona State

  4. Logic Model • Description of what a program is expected to achieve and how it is expected to work • Or, in other words, it is a map linking together a project’s goals, activities, services, and assumptions

  5. Logic Model • Develops understanding • Helps monitor progress • Serves as an evaluation framework • Helps expose assumptions • Helps restrain over promising • Promotes communications

  6. What is program evaluation? The process of systematically determining the quality of a program and how the program can be improved

  7. Evaluation is critical because it tells us . . . • What works • What doesn’t work • What to improve • How to improve it

  8. Collecting Data • Use existing data whenever possible!

  9. Writing Measurable Goals • Make a list of negative behaviors and concerns • Create statements that are the opposite (replacement behaviors) • Connect the statements with observable, positive behaviors

  10. Evaluation is: • Systematic and open • Recorded and traceable • Clearly and accurately communicated • Reported in writing • Shared and available

  11. Why is the School Counseling Program Being Evaluated? • Is the evaluation being conducted for your own reasons, or are you responding to a request from someone else? • Who will see and/or use the evaluation results? • What will you and/or the others do with the results? • What decisions will be based on the results?

  12. “School counselors do not have to be skilled statisticians . . . Simple percentages . . . create powerful pictures. . .” - ASCA National Model for School Counseling Programs, Bowers and Hatch (2003)

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