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STWI conducts quantitative and qualitative evaluations
using logic models encompassing inputs, outputs and outcomes (intermediate
and long term) as well as the social and political context within which the
evaluation takes place as illustrated in Table 1.
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Inputs
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Outputs
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Outcomes
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- Program planning and
management
- Outreach
- Recruitment and
Retention
- Services Offered
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Participation
rates in Services
- Case management
- Medical, mental and
social services
- Childcare
- Mentoring and tutoring
- Job training
- Career Planning
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Intermediate
- Satisfaction measured
by satisfaction survey
- Best experiences and
remaining needs measured by focus groups
Long
range
- Healthy Pregnancy
- Birth
weight
- Gestational
age
- Infant
mortality
- School attendance, promotion,
graduation rates
- High school diploma
- College Degree
- Career choice
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STWI evaluations may
encompass formative and summative evaluation.
- Formative or process
evaluation examines the process of program implementation or program delivery
including inputs (service delivery) and outputs (participation rates)
including problems encountered and solutions attempted or achieved;
- Summative or outcome
evaluation documents outcomes of the formative process, whether and to
what extent the program, as a whole, has achieved its stated
objectives as measured by outcomes on specific health and education
indicators.
Formative and summative
evaluations have included both quantitative and qualitative measurement:
- Quantitative/statistical
evaluation including longitudinal tracking of demographic and health
indicators, measurement of participation rates in workshops and other
forms of service delivery, school retention and achievement, and
telephone satisfaction survey
- Qualitative evaluation
using focus groups that enable participants to say in their own words
which program activities and models have been the best and most
successful for them, what barriers remain, what are their unmet needs
and what remedies do they believe would work.
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