# UCLA NIGMS T32 Program Assessment

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · 2020 · $85,617

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
UCLA’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) supports faculty, administrators, postdoctoral scholars,
and graduate students in serving their mission of fostering and championing effective teaching. Within CAT sits
a dedicated centrally located Center for Educational Assessment (CEA) unit that regularly collaborates with
faculty and campus partners by drawing on its expertise in pedagogy, educational assessment, and curricular
research. CEA has a history of participating in assessment of various graduate student and postdoctoral
programs at UCLA including the campus-wide Teaching Assistant Training Program, CIRTL graduate student
Teaching-as-Research Program, Nanosystems Engineering Research Center, and the NIH IRACDA program
for postdoctoral scholars. With this experience CAT is optimally positioned and well-equipped to house a
centralized assessment resource dedicated to evaluate NIH-funding training programs, starting with Cellular and
Molecular Biology (CMB) Training Program as a model. UCLA NIH-funded training programs need a common
platform for assessment. Over the last decade, UCLA has built extensive infrastructure and developed innovative
programs for graduate student and postdoctoral scholar career development training. However, this raises a
significant need to assess training program goals and outcomes to inform program improvement. At any given
time, UCLA has over 40 NIH-funded training grants but lacks a dedicated system and standardized process for
training program evaluation. Consequently, programs are currently addressing this need on an ad hoc basis.
The goal of this supplement is to develop a centralized assessment resource with the capacity to collect, analyze,
and archive participant data and programmatic outcomes applicable to most, if not all, training programs at
UCLA. CEA work will include the development of standard assessment resources and the creation of an online
dashboard to share the assessment results. The effectiveness of this assessment process will be evaluated by
building a base of samples that would become available on the dashboard, monitoring ongoing activities, and
tracking accomplishments and research merit. As UCLA supports this commitment to document the experience
of trainees, we will seek additional funding to expand this project over time.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10146009
- **Project number:** 3T32GM007185-46S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
- **Principal Investigator:** Jorge Torres
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $85,617
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1975-07-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10146009

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10146009, UCLA NIGMS T32 Program Assessment (3T32GM007185-46S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10146009. Licensed CC0.

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