ABSTRACT
The aim of main business activities of the performance evaluation of public institutions (PEPI) is to review the results of the main business during the target period. However, it is said that the current evaluation may involve the fallacy of over-simplification in a complicated and complex atmosphere due to its limitation as a simple logic model focusing on the cycle of Plan-Do-See-Act, which leads to discord between evaluation results and public opinion, degrading its result into mere tools of classifying rankings for redistributing performance incentives. Based on such context, this study tries to examine the relevance of evaluation indicators from the Theory of Change and Complicated and Complex Logic Model for the evolution toward newer perspectives in terms of Evaluability Assessment of current performance evaluation. And then it diagnoses whether the current system is able to effectively examine the real results of public institutions focusing on group 1 of the public institutions of Korea. As a conclusion, it identifies current problems and suggests possible remedies for better performance evaluation of public institutions that could be applied to other developing countries. Also, it was pointed out that the transition from the traditional program logic model view that assumes a linear and stable business environment to the perspective of the Theory of Change in which the complicated and complex factors can be addressed.
