Evaluation Core

项目总结（评估核心） 康奈尔大学 FIRST 评估核心将为康奈尔大学 FIRST 队列项目提供项目评估 并与 FIRST CEC 合作，确保整体计划评估和结果跟踪。 该核心中拟议的活动涉及我们的监测和评估倡议，以批判性地评估 计划的进展，测试我们的模型以确保上述举措是可推广的，它们是 以有效的方式实施，并将吸取的经验教训纳入整个计划 进化。该核心的活动评估了 NIH FIRST 的主要假设，即队列和集群 教师招聘、赞助、持续指导和专业发展的设计模型， 嵌入实施循证实践的机构将培育一种文化 包容性卓越的学术文化。评估 NIH FIRST 的主要假设需要 多方面的混合方法系统思维方法。康奈尔大学 FIRST 监测与评估 该计划与 FIRST CEC 合作，将遵循协作开发的程序逻辑模型 和综合评价计划。它将结合程序理论和 程序逻辑；定性和定量混合方法的整合；并入各种 利益相关者和参与者；以及形成性和总结性设计。我们将通过实施来做到这一点 整体核心的具体目标#4，评估我们的招聘、氛围和师资并从中学习 通过确定哪些战略和活动最有效和可持续的发展方法 机构规模，通过评估和监测 FIRST 计划和活动来确保它们 正在实现他们的计划目标，向 康奈尔大学机构指导委员会通过以下方式确保 FIRST 队列取得最大成功 目标、战略和活动，并确保与 FIRST CEC 的整合和协同作用，以促进整体 FIRST 计划评估和结果跟踪。评估将由高技能团队进行 其中包括两名外部评估员，他们在高等教育领域拥有数十年的以公平为中心的评估经验 教育，包括评估 NIH 多样性计划联盟的经验。

Project Summary (Evaluation Core) The Cornell FIRST Evaluation Core will provide program evaluation of the Cornell FIRST Cohort program and work collaboratively with the FIRST CEC to ensure overall program evaluation and outcome tracking. The proposed activities in this core address our Monitoring and Evaluation Initiative to critically assess the progress of the program, test our models to ensure that the above initiatives are generalizable, that they are implemented in an effective manner, and that lessons learned are incorporated throughout the program as it evolves. The activities of this core assess the primary NIH FIRST hypothesis that a cohort and cluster design model of faculty hiring, sponsorship, continual mentoring, and professional development, embedded within an institution implementing evidence-based practices will foster a culture of academic cultures of inclusive excellence. Assessing the primary NIH FIRST hypothesis requires a multi-faceted mixed-methods systems thinking approach. The Cornell FIRST Monitoring and Evaluation Initiative, in collaboration with the FIRST CEC, will follow a collaboratively developed program logic model and comprehensive evaluation plan. It will incorporate development and integration of program theory and program logic; integration of qualitative and quantitative mixed methods; the incorporation of a variety of stakeholders and participants; and both formative and summative design. We will do this by implementing Specific Aim #4 from the Overall Core, to evaluate and learn from our hiring, climate, and faculty development approaches by identifying which strategies and activities are most effective and sustainable at an institutional scale, by assessing and monitoring the FIRST programs and activities to ensure that they are meeting their planned goals, provide continuous learning and program improvement feedback to the Cornell Institutional Steering Committee to ensure the highest success of the FIRST cohort through the aims, strategies, and activities, and to ensure integration and synergy with FIRST CEC to facilitate overall FIRST program evaluation and outcome tracking. The evaluation will be carried out by a highly skilled team that includes two external evaluators with decades of equity focused evaluation experience in higher education, including experience evaluating the NIH Diversity Program Consortium.