Dr. Aileen Reid is an Assistant Professor of Educational Research Methodology in the Information, Library and Research Sciences department and Senior Fellow in the Office of Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Services (OAERS) in the UNC Greensboro School of Education. Aileen has expertise in culturally responsive, STEM and mixed methods research and evaluation, educational measurement and assessment, and organizational change. Dr. Reid co-directs the STEM Program Evaluation Lab (SPEL) which provides training in research and evaluation for graduate and undergraduate students on STEM education projects. Dr. Reid is the principal/co-principal/co-investigator of four grants funded by NSF and the National Institutes of Health and the external evaluator for six National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects including AI-ALOE.
Aileen serves on the AI-ALOE leadership team as the Assistant Director of Program Evaluation, where she works with the leadership to integrate formative and summative evaluation into the general operation of the project to guide with planning, decision-making, and provide recommendations for project improvement. Evaluation questions are focused on project theory, implementation, effectiveness, outcomes, impact, and sustainability of the ALOE Institute.
Dr. Reid utilizes a mixed-methods approach (qualitative and quantitative methodology), as well as informal reporting, including regular communication and critical feedback to ALOE project stakeholders, and reviews of AI-ALOE activities and service delivery. Evaluation reports, including “just in time” feedback aid in monitoring project implementation and reporting on progress, challenges, and slippage.
Aileen’s work with the AI-ALOE team has led to several invited presentations, including the 2024 Summit for AI Institutes Leadership where she presented a culturally responsive framework for broadening participation in computing and the 2024 American Evaluation Association plenary on the use of generativeAI in evaluation practices.
Aileen’s research investigates inequities in outcomes among underrepresented and minoritized groups, specifically how the intersection of identities and practice impact engagement and responsiveness to varying contexts and cultures. She also investigates values-engaged teaching, learning, and mentorship in research and evaluation. This work is centered on social justice, access, diversity, equity, and inclusion and challenges researchers and practitioners to look at our own cultural location as well as key dimensions of practice to incite change (e.g., context, relationships, validity, methodology, and design). Aileen believes that evaluators should exercise our social and political responsibility through courageous leadership and advocacy to attend to the values of stakeholders and to advance an equitable AI world.
