{"id":201,"date":"2025-10-03T15:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=201"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:30:07","slug":"use-of-logic-models","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/foundationsofevaluation\/chapter\/use-of-logic-models\/","title":{"raw":"6.5 The use of logic models","rendered":"6.5 The use of logic models"},"content":{"raw":"Logic models and related intervention representations are central in many facets of evaluation projects; they can be used for different purposes. Mayne (2015) lists a wide range of possible uses:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Designing\/planning interventions<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">1) Designing interventions<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">2) Understanding and agreeing on interventions with stakeholders<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">3) Identifying and addressing equity, gender, and empowerment issues<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">4) Ex ante evaluation of proposed interventions<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Managing interventions<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">5) Designing monitoring systems<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">6) Understanding implementation, managing adaptively, and learning<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Assessing interventions <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">7) Designing evaluation questions, methods, and tools<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">8) Making causal claims about impact<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">9) Reporting performance<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Scaling <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">10) Generalizing to the theory, to other locations and for scaling up and out. 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