A reminder about the differences between outputs and outcomes:
Outputs are measures of volume: products created or delivered, people served, activities and services carried out. Think of outputs as the “things” piece of evaluation: products, deliverables, counts. Outputs are almost always numbers: the number of Interlibrary Loans, the number of attendees, the number of publications, the number of grants made, or the number of times a workshop was presented.
Outcomes are the change in the “people” or the “so what” piece – what changed in the participants because of the outputs.
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