by Karen Peterman | Aug 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Christopher Bross | Jun 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
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 Christopher Bross | Jan 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
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...
