Even more content, in a sleek new package. In January 2019 we launched the new web site for the EvalFest project that I lead with Todd Boyette and Katherine Nielsen. One of our goals for the web site was to create a one-stop-shop for all of the resources that the EvalFest community has created and tested over the past four years. The entire site is a celebration of evaluation, and so it only made sense to send any KPC followers who are looking for our video tutorials to the new site. All of the videos from our original resource library are there. We’ve also added many more! There are quick video tutorials on everything from informed consent, to intercept survey methods, to how to manage your data in Excel. We also have a new set of videos that present basic statistical analyses in a way that we hope anyone can understand, and then follow those up with How To videos that walk users through the process of doing the stats on their own. We are thrilled with the new site. Please check it out and let us know what you think! And never fear, you can always come here to the KPC site first and then jump to the resources from here by clicking on the Evaluating Informal Learning ribbon at the top of the home page.

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.