Outcomes-Based Evaluation

Outcomes-based evaluation is an approach to measuring the effects of a project, or an institution's, services and activities on the target audience that these programs seek to benefit or serve. IMLS recommends outcome based evaluations as a means of tailoring each project's design and objectives to achieve their specific goals. Through the use of outcome based statements, methods of evaulation, inputs and outputs, projects such as PBO can both monitor and adjust its progress towards completeing its program purpose and organizational mission.


Publishers' Bindings Online's Outcomes Based Evaluation Report [working document]

Publishers' Bindings Online's Outcomes Based Evaluation Logic Model [pdf]

Outcomes Based Evaluation on the IMLS site

                       
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