Audrey Boochever

My social science research focuses on the ways that education policies and practices address educational inequities. 

Before enrolling in Davis’s Ph.D. program in Education with a designated emphasis on Computational Social Science, I taught math at Overton High School, a Title 1 school in Memphis, TN, through Teach For America and was a senior data analyst at Aspire Public Schools, a network of 36 charter schools serving over 15,300 scholars in the Bay Area, Central Valley, and Los Angeles. My work at Aspire focused on analyzing data and evaluating interventions and programs to progress Aspire’s equity goals.

My current research interests concentrate on the transition from high school to college and career, and specifically career-education and dual enrollment. Other research interests include school safety, transformative and restorative justice in schools, student-teacher ethnoracial matching, chronic absenteeism, education in carceral spaces, alternative schools, and the application of quantitative methods to critical race theory (QuantCrit).

Education

University of California, Davis, Expected 2025
Ph.D., Education
Designated Emphasis (Minor): Computational Social Science

University of California, Davis, 2017
M.S., Agricultural and Resource Economics

Cornell University, 2013
B.S., cum laude, International Agriculture and Rural Development
(Economics concentration, Chinese minor)

Published Research

Boochever, A., Reed, S., & Kurlaender, M. (2023). Career Technical Education among California high school graduates. Policy Analysis for California Education and Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research. https://edpolicyinca.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/ig_boochever-nov2023.pdf

Boochever, A., & Rose, H. (2023). Student-teacher ethnoracial matching at charter and traditional public schools. Journal of School Choice, 17(3), 324–351. https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2023.2233320

Research in Progress

“Increasing Attendance with Text Nudges Targeting Family Beliefs about Student Absences” (with Chenny Ng)

“Boosting Dual Enrollment Participation by Simplifying Access for High School Students”

“Dual Enrollment: Expanding Access to Career and Technical Education” (with Sherrie Reed and Michal Kurlaender)

“The Impact of Classifying a Student as an English Learner on Academic and Non-Academic Outcomes”

Presentations

Boochever, A. (2024, November 6). Impact of career technical education-focused dual enrollment on postsecondary success. California Education Research Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Boochever, A. (2024, September 19). Boosting dual enrollment participation by simplifying access for high school students. UC Davis Poverty and Inequality Center Fall Retreat, Davis, CA.

Boochever, A. (2024, July 24). Dual enrollment: Expanding access to career and technical education. Postsecondary CTE & Workforce Development Virtual Summer Research Forum, Online.

Boochever, A. (2024, March 15). Impact of a dual enrollment policy shift on career and technical subject offerings and participation. Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Boochever, A. (2024, March 4). Impact of a dual enrollment policy shift on career and technical subject offerings and participation. Liberation, Decolonization, and Abolition Cafe Dialogues, Davis, CA.

Boochever, A. (2023, November 27). Impact of a dual enrollment policy shift on career and technical course offerings. Association for Career and Technical Education Research Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.

Boochever, A. (2023, November 14). A portrait of career and technical education pathway completers. California Education Research Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, California.

Boochever, A. (2023, November 10). Impact of a dual enrollment policy shift on career and technical course offerings. APPAM Fall Research Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Boochever, A. (2023, April 10). Ethnoracial matching at charter and traditional public schools. Graduate Group in Education Research Seminar Series, Davis, CA.

Boochever, A., & Mathias, J. (2023, March 24). Participation in career and technical education in California. Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, Denver, CO.

Boochever, A. (2023, January 13). Ethnoracial matching at charter and traditional public schools. International School Choice and Reform Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Boochever, A. (2022, July 8). Quantitative applications to Critical Race Theory (QuantCrit). ResultsLab Lunch and Learn, Online.

Boochever, A. (2022, March 23). Racial representation in the classroom at public charter elementary schools versus traditional public elementary schools. Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, Denver, CO.

Boochever, A. (2020, March). Effects of English Learner classification on academic and non-academic outcomes. Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, Online.

Awards

Professors For the Future Fellowship, 2023-24, $3000 and professional development

CTE Fellowship, 2023-24, $2,500, conference support, and professional development

International School Choice and Reform Conference Best Paper Prize, 2023

Graduate Group in Education Fellowship ($1,500), 2022

AEFP Roe L. Johns Travel Grant ($170), 2022

Training Institute on Causal Research in CTE, conducted by AIR ($500), 2022

UC Davis Graduate Group in Education First-Year Fellowship Award ($27,542), 2020

Dell Foundation Ed-Fi Grant ($173,000), 2019

Teaching Experience

EDU 120: Philosophical and Social Foundations of Education – UC Davis, 2023 – Syllabus; Instructor of Record; Rating 4.88/5

Introduction to College – Mt. Tamalpais College, 2022
Instructor of Record

EDU 100: Introduction to Schools (Upper Undergraduate Level) – UC Davis, 2021
Teaching Assistant
Rating of 4.65/5

IAD 200N: Theory and Practice of Development (Graduate Level) – UC Davis, 2016
Teaching Assistant
Rating of 4.69/5

Teach For America – Memphis, TN, 2013 – 2016
Algebra and Geometry Teacher

Service

Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ), Policy Committee, 2016 – 2022
Organizer
Facilitate trainings on anti-racism, the legislative process, and transformative justice

Young Architects of Color 2020 – 2021
Founding Advisor

• Sparked the idea, initiated, and advised William Duff Architects, Inc. on building externship program for high-schoolers interested in architecture
• Conducted trainings on how to be an engaging and high quality instructor

East Bay College Fund 2017 – 2020
Mentor
Mentored Oakland first generation students navigating the transition to college

Professional Skills

• Teaching, facilitation, conflict mediation, quantitative and qualitative research methods, project management, data visualization, writing, presenting
• Software: Microsoft Suite, Stata, R, Python, SQL, Tableau, NVivo, Qualtrics, Latex
• English (native), Mandarin (proficent), Spanish (beginning)