The EvalFest project created a number of “just in time” training videos to help with data collection and management. The data collection videos below cover topics related to informed consent, best practices for conducting intercept surveys, mystery shopping, and using the think aloud method. The Data Management videos guide you through how to clean and prepare your data for analysis.
Data Collection
Getting Started – Intercept Surveys
5th Person Rule
The “Why” and “How” of the Consent ProcessWhen One is Greater than Two
Section by Section: A Consent Fact SheetTracking Survey Refusals
Mystery Shopping
Think Alouds
Data Management
Database Organization & Password ProtectionCreating Pivot Tables in Excel
Filtering & Isolating Data in Excel
Data Cleaning & Recoding in Excel
Meet Karen
Hello, and thanks for visiting my site. I am an evaluator and researcher who studies both formal and informal STEM education programs. My favorites are those that are particularly tricky to study, like science festivals and citizen science projects. I received fantastic Ph.D. training in the psych department at Duke, and have applied my skills to the field of education since 2002.
I started doing independent consulting work in 2007 and founded KPC in 2010, with a focus on STEM education. I split my time between providing external evaluation services for some and collaborating to publish educational research with others. A lot of my most recent work has focused on evaluation capacity building, and a number of the resources on this site are from those projects.
