Evaluation Core

评估核心--摘要 培养评估核心(EvalCore)：西北大学招生转型-- 代表和实现公平将评估并持续改进我们提议的生态系统，旨在 向包容性卓越转型。EvalCore将使用公平、参与性、 并不断完善。它将监测和跟踪方案和参与者的进展情况；评估 干预措施；绘制互动和网络图；监测时间表；深入审查知识、技能、态度、 和行为；并报告朝着所述总体目标的进展情况。这些活动的目的是为了 限制项目参与者的任何评估负担，并确保培养领导层、调查人员、 顾问对培育的复杂和分层结构和运营有深入的了解，并可以 因此，完善、改进和增强其活动能力。计划评估将通过以下方式完成 遵循特定的目标。目标1：与其他FIRST计划协调。EvalCore将与 第一个CEC和第一个获奖机构制定和协调评价活动、报告和 跨机构研究指标和方法。目标2：制定评价框架和业务 需要对主要结果进行评估。EvalCore将使用成熟的战略、指标、工作流程和 系统评价方法中的定量和定性数据、评价措施和评价来源 研究。我们的方法是基于参与性和以利用为重点的评估，其中整合了评估 来自整个系统的数据、反思和反馈，以推进培育的目标，以创建包容性 太棒了。这一评估框架将有助于培养和检验这样一个假设，即教师队列模型 在重视包容性卓越的可持续文化中招聘将在以下指标中实现显著改进 生物医学研究人员的机构文化和科研队伍多样性。目标3：实施 现有的形成性评价，并根据需要开发新的评价，以进行持续改进。EvalCore， 与培育的其他核心合作，将使用混合方法来评估 培育计划元素。通过探索每个计划元素如何影响培育组织的成员 我们将根据需要调整计划内容，以取得成功。 目标4：交流结果以获得最大影响。EvalCore将建立一个强大的传播 基础设施，推动西北大学及其他地区的责任感和变革性影响。它将提供和 利用公平(可找到、可访问、可互操作和可复制)的传播渠道来支持 公平的知识转化和能力建设，用于培养方案及其招募的队列。这些 渠道将被用来传达培育和更广泛的FIRST计划的结果。

EVALUATION CORE―ABSTRACT The Evaluation Core (EvalCore) for NURTURE: Northwestern University Recruitment to Transform Under- Representation and achieve Equity will evaluate and continuously improve our proposed ecosystem aimed at transformation to inclusive excellence. The EvalCore will use a systems approach that is equitable, participatory, and continuously improving. It will monitor and track the progress of the program and participants; assess interventions; map interactions and networks; monitor timelines; deeply examine knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors; and report progress toward the stated overall aims. These activities have been designed to both limit any evaluation burden on program participants and ensure that the NURTURE leadership, investigators, and advisors have a deep view into the complex and layered structure and operations of NURTURE, and can therefore refine, improve and empower its activities. Program evaluation will be accomplished through the following Specific Aims. Aim 1: Coordinate with other FIRST programs. The EvalCore will collaborate with the FIRST CEC and the FIRST awardee institutions to develop and coordinate evaluation activities, reporting, and cross-institution research metrics and approaches. Aim 2: Develop the evaluation framework and operations needed to assess the primary outcomes. EvalCore will use well-established strategy, metrics, workflows, and quantitative and qualitative data measures and sources for evaluation in a systems approach to evaluation and research. Our approach is based on participatory and utilization-focused assessments that integrate evaluation data, reflection and feedback from across the system to advance the goal of NURTURE to create inclusive excellence. This evaluation framework will help NURTURE test the hypothesis that a cohort model of faculty hiring within a sustaining culture valuing inclusive excellence will achieve significant improvements in metrics of institutional culture and scientific workforce diversity among biomedical research faculty. Aim 3: Implement existing formative evaluations, and develop new ones as needed, for continuous improvement. The EvalCore, in collaboration with the other cores of NURTURE, will employ mixed methods to evaluate the efficacy of the NURTURE program elements. By exploring how each program element impacts the members of the NURTURE cohort and the broader Northwestern community, we will adapt program elements as needed to achieve success. Aim 4: Communicate results for maximum impact. The EvalCore will establish a robust dissemination infrastructure to drive accountability and transformative impact at Northwestern and beyond. It will provide and leverage FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reproducible) dissemination channels to support equitable knowledge translation and capacity building for the NURTURE program and its recruited cohort. These channels will be used to communicate the results of NURTURE and the broader FIRST program.