Evaluation Core

项目总结(评估核心) 康奈尔第一评估核心将提供对康奈尔第一队列计划的计划评估 并与第一个CEC协作，以确保总体计划评估和结果跟踪。 本核心建议的活动涉及我们的监测和评价倡议，以批判性地评估 计划的进展，测试我们的模型，以确保上述倡议是可概括的，它们是 以有效的方式实施，并将吸取的经验教训纳入整个方案 不断进化。这个核心的活动评估了NIH的第一个假设，即一个队列和集群 教师聘用、赞助、持续指导、专业发展的设计模式， 嵌入到实施循证实践的机构中将培养一种 具有包容性的优秀学术文化。评估初级NIH第一假说需要一个 多层面混合方法的系统思维方法。康奈尔大学第一次监测和评估 倡议与第一届CEC合作，将遵循合作开发的方案逻辑模型 和综合评估方案。它将把规划理论的发展和整合与 程序逻辑；定性和定量混合方法的集成；多种方法的结合 利益相关者和参与者；以及形成性和终结性设计。我们将通过实现以下方式实现这一点 来自整体核心的具体目标#4，评估我们的招聘、环境和教职员工并从中学习 通过确定哪些战略和活动在以下方面最有效和最可持续地发展方法 机构规模，通过评估和监测第一批方案和活动，以确保它们 正在实现他们的计划目标，提供持续学习和计划改进反馈给 康奈尔大学机构指导委员会通过 目标、战略和活动，并确保与First CEC的整合和协同，以促进整体 第一个项目评估和结果跟踪。评估将由一个技术娴熟的团队进行 这包括两名外部评估员，他们在高等法院拥有数十年的股权评估经验 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.