Tis the season to reflect and give thanks, and I am feeling so fortunate with my lot in life this November that I'm doing a post each week for the rest of the month to give shout outs to those who helped get me here. Last week was the annual meeting of the American...
If you had asked me what an evaluability assessment was about a year ago, I don’t think I could have told you. Now I find that it’s a term and a process that I use all the time thanks to another NC-based evaluator and fellow member of RTP Evaluators, Tamara Walser....
The funny thing about evaluation capacity building projects is that, if you do them well, you will eventually work yourself out of a job. Sometimes that is exactly why we are hired. We are asked to provide support and training so that a client’s team can eventually...
Over the past few years I have had the pleasure and the frustration of puzzling through when and how to use off-the-shelf measures for evaluation. I’m a huge fan of off-the-shelf measures that have validation evidence to support their use. Here’s the logic behind my...
April is science festival month in North Carolina. An initiative of Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, the North Carolina Science Festival offers an opportunity to celebrate science in fun and welcoming settings, encourages children to pursue science-related...
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...
Evaluation of public engagement in science usually focuses on the impact on public participants. Do scientists benefit from public engagement? Karen Peterman Consulting has been collaborating with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to...
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...
How do scientists engage with the public and how effective are they in those interactions? Now more than ever, effective science communication is vital for the public discourse. KPC and collaborators recently published an article about validating a scale to measure...