Measuring Faculty Mentoring Competency: Establishing the Validity of a Short Form.

This paper describes the procedures for evaluating the psychometric properties of the 26-item Mentoring Competency Assessment (MCA) scale and developing short-forms to measure faculty mentoring outcomes for the NIH-funded Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative and National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN). Analyses were conducted using responses to the MCA scale from NRMN mentors and faculty across 11 BUILD institutions in the 2017-18 academic year. After performing extensive item factor analyses and taking the MCA sub-constructs into analytical consideration, we created an 8-item short form and a 14-item short form.

Development of the Self-Efficacy as Faculty Change Agent for Diversity (SE-FCA-D) Scale.

Thispublicationprovides an overview of the development of the Self-Efficacy as Faculty Change Agent/or Diversity (SE-FCA-D) scale. The 5-item scale recently appeared as an additional module on the Higher Education and Research Institute (HERi) Faculty Survey 2019-2020 for the JO BUILD programs within the Diversity Program Consortium that areparticipating in the Enhance Diversity Study, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH U54GMI 19024). Thepiloted scale is meant to measure DPC Hallmark of Success FAC-16: "Strong self-efficacy to act as a change agent to enhance diversity in biomedical research and research training environments" (DPC, 2019).

A participatory approach to evaluating a national training and institutional change initiative: the BUILD longitudinal evaluation.

Background And Purpose: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds training programs to increase the numbers and skills of scientists who obtain NIH research grants, but few programs have been rigorously evaluated. The sizeable recent NIH investment in developing programs to increase the diversity of the NIH-funded workforce, implemented through the Diversity Program Consortium (DPC), is unusual in that it also funds a Consortium-wide evaluation plan, which spans the activities of the 10 BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) awardees and the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN). The purpose of this article is to describe the evaluation design and innovations of the BUILD Program on students, faculty, and institutions of the 10 primarily undergraduate BUILD sites.