Kate Niehaus

Evaluation Specialist

Kate Niehaus, Ph.D., is an Evaluation Specialist at the University of Kentucky Evaluation Center. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Measurement, and Evaluation from the University of Louisville in 2012 and served as an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Research at the University of South Carolina from 2012-2016. Recently, Dr. Niehaus worked as a program evaluation coordinator for a non-profit organization implementing violence prevention curriculum in schools. She specializes in quantitative methodologies, including hierarchical linear modeling, structural equation modeling, missing data analysis, multiple regression, and secondary data analysis with large-scale datasets. Her substantive interests focus on the role of school connectedness in predicting students’ academic and behavioral outcomes. Within the Evaluation Center, Dr. Niehaus assesses fidelity of implementation for the full-service community schools grant, performs data analysis and visualization for public health grants, collects and summarizes data for a STEM teacher education grant, and often serves as a quantitative data consultant.