by Karen Peterman | Jan 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Within the past month, I have had the good fortune to participate in a couple of meetings that got my brain buzzing about evaluation capacity-building tools. The first of these was a convening of folks who are part of a project called STEM Evaluation Community that...
by Karen Peterman | Nov 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ever wish you could find online training videos that were developed for informal educators and evaluators? Our EvalFest partners did, and so we have taken this challenge head on! Over the past several months, we started to create and distribute data management and...
by Karen Peterman | Sep 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
I don’t know about you, but I love to learn new things. It’s just the kind of geek that I am. Lucky for me, my clients and projects push me to learn new things on a regular basis. A biggie for me this year was collective impact, and specifically how to evaluate new...
by Karen Peterman | Sep 27, 2017 | Publications
It has been a fun month at KPC, as we found out that both of the scientist scales that we developed for AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) will soon be published. I’m thrilled that AAAS’s recent work might catalyze practitioners and evaluators...
by Karen Peterman | Sep 27, 2017 | Publications
I don’t know, honestly. It just is! Creating reports that people will actually read (and then use) is a tricky business. At the end of the day, a report has to meet people where they are. For some, that means staying in their comfort zone or within the comfort...