by Keshia Martin | May 31, 2023 | On the Blog, Publications
At Catalyst Consulting Group, we love a good, data-driven story. We recently published an article in the Journal of Geoscience Education that is just that. While Catalyst and our larger group of co-authors for this paper have a history of publishing this kind of work,...
by Karen Peterman | Nov 28, 2022 | On the Blog, Publications
Introduction This blog post demonstrates the value of beginning to study informal science learning (ISL) participants and visitors based on intersectional identities. Intersectionality is the idea that human characteristics such as race and/or ethnicity, gender,...
by Karen Peterman | Nov 16, 2021 | On the Blog, Publications
Christmas came early in 2020, as I had the chance to interview an awesome group of leaders from across the informal learning and science communication fields to learn about their experiences with research-practice partnerships (RPPs). My job was to learn about their...
by Jen Gathings | Apr 24, 2019 | On the Blog, Publications
Drawing on data from surveys and interviews, the EvalFest team found high rates of evaluation use among its science festival partners across the United States. Recently published in Evaluation and Program Planning, this article uses data from festival team interviews...
by Karen Peterman | Mar 12, 2019 | On the Blog, Publications
Using data from nearly 10,000 attendees from 24 EvalFest science festival expos, the EvalFest team found that, similar to other public science events, the majority of attendees are well-educated and middle-class. Yet, the majority of festival-goers are new each year,...
by Karen Peterman | Jul 13, 2018 | Publications
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...
