What characteristics make for good indicators in outcomes monitoring?

What will be an ideal response?


The outcome measures that serve as indicators for use in outcome monitoring schemes should be as responsive as possible to program influences.The most interpretable outcome indicators are those that involve characteristics or behaviors that only the program is likely to have affected to any appreciable degree.An informative indicator that can be easily linked to program experience is client satisfaction, increasingly called customer satisfaction even in human service programs. While not technically a program outcome, direct ratings by recipients of the benefits they believe the program provided them, or not, is useful feedback for a program. In addition, creating feelings of satisfaction about the interaction with the program among the participants is itself usually an important program accomplishment.

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