Evidence-Building Academy Participant Project Update and Data Visualizations

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To Our Participants

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BURDEN:

This information is being collected to provide Academy faculty with background regarding participants’ evaluation projects. The information will be used by faculty to tailor the content of the Academy. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 50 minutes per respondent, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and reviewing information, preparing slides, and presenting them during the Academy. This is a voluntary collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB # is 0970-0401 and the expiration date is 05/31/2021.

If you have any comments on this collection of information, please contact:

Mike Pergamit Urban Institute 202-261-5276 mpergamit@urban.org

Mark Courtney University of Chicago 772-702-1219 markc@uchicago.org

 

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Theory of Change

• •Using the template from July's meeting, provide a brief theory of change for your evaluation project or area of interest.  

1. • •I observe that...[there is a specific problem] 

   • •I think it's because...[of this reason] 

   • •So I plan to...[implement some intervention] 

   • •Which I think will result in...[a desired outcome] 

 

YOUR PROGRESS AND REFLECTIONS

• •Since July's meeting, has anything changed about your evaluation project or interests? 

• •If relevant, please include the following: 

  • •Target population 

  • •Data sources 

  • •Analysis methods 

  • •Outcomes 

 

CURRENT CHALLENGES
(This should be something you would like to address during the remainder of the Academy with feedback from other attendees and experts. You may wish to focus on a topic that will be covered in the October portion of the syllabus.)

• •Challenge 1: 

• •Challenge 2 (optional): 

• •Challenge 3 (optional):