Logic models to design and evaluate the quality of educational programs

Modelos lógicos para desenho e avaliação da qualidade de programas educacionais

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v30i69.2056

Keywords:

logic models, quality of education, mixed methods research

Abstract

The logic of evaluation shows the reasoning associated with evaluative research. What underlies the design, implementation and evaluation of a program is a way of thinking focused on assessing the purposes and content of programs aimed at addressing needs that will guide us in the collection of information to evaluate the quality of the program itself, its adequacy to the needs it aims to address, its planning, its application and its results, to guide improvements in the immediate, medium and long term. Quality is the adequacy of the results to the specified characteristics. Logic models, through their diagram, show, in a graphic way, the theory of change, indicating the links between needs and goals, interventions, with their strategies and resources, leading to the achievement of results. It uses mixed research methods, qualitative and quantitative, to collect and analyze information about every one of its dimensions: needs, design, planification, application and results of the program. The logi

Author Biography

Catalina Martínez-Mediano, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distância (UNED)

Doutora em Métodos de Investigação e Diagnóstico em Educação pela Universidade Nacional de Educação à Distância (Uned). Professora titular da Universidade de Métodos de Investigação Avaliativa em Educação na Uned. Colaboradora honorífica no mesmo departamento em que desenvolveu sua atividade docente e pesquisadora.

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Published

2025-10-13

How to Cite

Martínez-Mediano, C. (2025). Logic models to design and evaluate the quality of educational programs: Modelos lógicos para desenho e avaliação da qualidade de programas educacionais. Série-Estudos - Periódico Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Educação Da UCDB, 30(69). https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v30i69.2056