If you’re unsure how to choose what your outcome is about, help is at hand
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ACTIVITY | ENGAGEMENT | POTENTIAL | BEHAVIOUR | SUCCESS |
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Provide Healthy Cooking Classes | Get attendances at your cooking classes | Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal | Increase the number of healthy meals a person has each week | Decrease an obese person’s weight |
On Makerble you can measure your progress at each of these 5 stages
Stage of progress | What it looks like | How you measure it |
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ACTIVITY (activity output) | Provide Healthy Cooking Classes | Create an Activity Tracker called Healthy Cooking Classes Run |
ENGAGEMENT (participation output) | Get attendances at your cooking classes | Create an Engagement Tracker called Attendances |
POTENTIAL (short-term outcome) | Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal | Step 1. Create a Multiple Choice Tracker called “How would you rate your ability to cook a variety of meals that are healthy and tasty?” which has the Answer Choices
Step 2. Add your new Multiple Choice Tracker to a new outcome called “Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal” |
BEHAVIOUR (medium-term outcome) | Increase the number of healthy meals a person has each week | Step 1. Create a Numerical Tracker called “How many healthy meals did you cook last week?” Step 2. Add your new Multiple Choice Tracker to a new outcome called “Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal” |
SUCCESS (long-term outcome) | Decrease an obese person’s weight | Step 1. Create a Numerical Tracker called “What is your weight?” and assign the unit of Kilograms Step 2. Add your new Multiple Choice Tracker to a new outcome called “Decrease an obese person’s weight” |
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You can create these 5 stages of progress on Makerble and add them to your project
Then you can start measuring progress at each stage on your project
Measure Activity and Engagement
Measure Potential
Measure Behaviour
Measure Success
That’s how you can see your progress
So because you have defined your outcomes as statements and then added Progress Trackers to them, you can now see the change that’s happened over time.
See it for yourself
The link to the Project Page: https://www.makerble.com/projects/reduce-obesity-by-teaching-healthy-cooking
The link to the Progress Board: https://www.makerble.com/progress_boards/reduce-obesity-by-teaching-healthy-cooking-demo
Next article in this series
How to use surveys to measure outcomes