4: Teaching Evaluation and Supporting Students and Colleagues of Color

This week I am joined by Dr. Ayesha Boyce, assistant professor of educational research methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, to discuss teaching evaluation and supporting students and colleagues of color.
Topics Covered:
Reflections on five years of teaching evaluation
The -ologies: ontology, epistemology, and axiology beyond just methodology
Favorite evaluation activity (of course, it’s the evaluating the cookie activity!)
Mentoring students of color. Five keys from Ayesha (see upcoming CJPE article):
Consider impact of vicarious trauma
Assist with facilitation peer mentors/squads
Respect, honor, and celebrate students’ culture, religion, and family
Be vigilant of microaggressions, and practice microvalidation
Develop mentoring competence
Supporting colleagues of color: helpful actions, silence as complicity, listening in, getting comfortable being uncomfortable
Approaching institutional leaders about actions for supporting students, faculty, and staff of color
Speaking out on the tenure track
Having a family and being exceptional at work simultaneously (Ayesha encourages us all that it IS possible!)
Resources mentioned:
Boyce & McGowan (2018) article “An exploration of two novice evaluation educators’ experiences developing and implementing introduction to evaluation courses (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1098214018778812)”
Evaluating the cookie activity in Preskill & Russ-Eft’s Building Evaluation Capacity book (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/building-evaluation-capacity/book241833)
Upcoming issue in CJPE on evaluator education
Ibram X. Kendi (https://www.ibramxkendi.com/)
Letter (https://twitter.com/AyeshaBoyce/status/1273662617035452419) from Dr. Boyce and students and faculty of color to their department
Letter (https://racialequity.uncg.edu/letter-from-black-uncg-faculty/) from Dr. Boyce and other black UNCG faculty
NDE upcoming issue on evaluator education (https://drive.google.com/file/d/16A60D7b7Rqajib1-Egx4FAh4TdQVdkne/view)
Contact:
Ayesha Boyce: Twitter @AyeshaBoyce (https://twitter.com/AyeshaBoyce) and [email protected]
EvaluLand: Website (https://evaluland.fireside.fm/) & Twitter (@EvaluLand (https://twitter.com/evaluland))
Music by Matt Ingelson, http://www.mattingelsonmusic.com/ Special Guest: Ayesha S. Boyce.

This week I am joined by Dr. Ayesha Boyce, assistant professor of educational research methodology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, to discuss teaching evaluation and supporting students and colleagues of color.

Topics Covered:

Reflections on five years of teaching evaluation
The -ologies: ontology, epistemology, and axiology beyond just methodology
Favorite evaluation activity (of course, it’s the evaluating the cookie activity!)
Mentoring students of color. Five keys from Ayesha (see upcoming CJPE article):

Consider impact of vicarious trauma
Assist with facilitation peer mentors/squads
Respect, honor, and celebrate students’ culture, religion, and family
Be vigilant of microaggressions, and practice microvalidation
Develop mentoring competence

Supporting colleagues of color: helpful actions, silence as complicity, listening in, getting comfortable being uncomfortable
Approaching institutional leaders about actions for supporting students, faculty, and staff of color
Speaking out on the tenure track
Having a family and being exceptional at work simultaneously (Ayesha encourages us all that it IS possible!)

Resources mentioned:

Boyce & McGowan (2018) article “An exploration of two novice evaluation educators’ experiences developing and implementing introduction to evaluation courses”
Evaluating the cookie activity in Preskill & Russ-Eft’s Building Evaluation Capacity book
Upcoming issue in CJPE on evaluator education
Ibram X. Kendi
Letter from Dr. Boyce and students and faculty of color to their department
Letter from Dr. Boyce and other black UNCG faculty
NDE upcoming issue on evaluator education

Contact:

Ayesha Boyce: Twitter @AyeshaBoyce and [email protected]
EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)

Music by Matt Ingelson, http://www.mattingelsonmusic.com/

Special Guest: Ayesha S. Boyce.

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