The Tracking and Evaluation (Eval) Core aims to support the leadership and programs of the Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources (OSCTR) by assessing progress toward stated goals and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of OSCTR core strategies. The overall commitment to evaluation is demonstrated by the integration of tracking and monitoring activities throughout each OSCTR core and its specific aims. The Eval Core continues to build and refine logic models for each core with measurable outcomes that have been invaluable in both strategic planning and evaluation for the OSCTR. Infrastructure was developed to facilitate activity tracking and evaluation that provides support and services to the OSCTR, as well as other large institutional grants. The Eval Core has helped to assess large programs of the OSCTR by completing in-depth evaluation studies of major OSCTR activities, including the Pilot Projects Program and Translating Practice into Research, allowing leadership to identify key refinements to improve programs and identify underperforming processes or gaps in knowledge. Our approach to evaluation will continue to focus on process and outcome measures, in which OSCTR leaders, investigators, and other stakeholders are active in prioritizing, framing, capturing, and using, for overall program improvement. The Eval Core will continue to evaluate the overall operational functions and outcomes of the OSCTR cores by assessing short- and long- term goals, monitoring program implementation, and tracking resource utilization. The Core will continue to find innovative means to address the efficiency, quality, and impact of OSCTR strategies through enhanced tracking mechanisms involving bibliometric analyses, return on investment calculations, and social network analyses. This renewal offers a new opportunity for the Eval Core to move beyond process metrics and measurements and work closely with the Administrative Core to expand assistance to all OSCTR cores and support junior investigators to better share their successes and disseminate efforts that promote peer learning. This will help accomplish a major objective of the OSCTR to establish the next generation of scientific leaders at our partners by continuing and optimizing the professional development of promising young investigators. Finally, the OSCTR Eval Core will continue to work with the Tracking and Evaluation Cores of the other IDeA- CTR awardees to share best practices and lessons learned through the evaluation activities of these centers and utilize those findings to improve the overall processes and outcomes of the OSCTR.