ABSTRACT
The Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) Evaluation Group, led by Dr. Linda C. Tillman, completed a participatory evaluation of CORIBE’s research and professional development activities (19992000). This chapter, which presents a brief overview of the evaluation process, demonstrates how this component of the CORIBE methodology functioned simultaneously as a generative research process as well as a culturally nurturing pedagogical experience. The Commission provided culturally nurturing professional development experiences for faculty and graduate student participants in several activities and research contexts. For instance, the Commission’s participatory evaluation process featured a faculty-faculty and faculty-graduate student mentoring component, an example of “overlapping polycentrism’’—research, professional developing and evaluation taking place simultaneously within the same culturally nurturing activities.
