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

2. Dr. Susan Whiston, Indiana Univ.
“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. Dr. David Berliner, Arizona State
“You have to have at least some of what you do related to outcomes.”
Dr. David Berliner, Arizona State
“You can’t have a concept of effectiveness if you don’t have a concept of outcomes.” (Berliner, 01/15/2003)

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
“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)
Validity - Whether the instrument or methods hits the target in providing you with the information you need
Reliability - Whether the instrument or method is giving a you a suitable reading