Enhancing Evaluation Capacity to Advance Program Evaluation in Nursing Mentorship
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Building capacity within programs to conduct evaluation allows leaders to increase the potential of harnessing systematic assessment to improve program impact. At Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada, nursing leaders leveraged evaluation capacity building (ECB) as a tool to improve the Transition Mentorship Program, an initiative using mentorship to support practice transitions and foster improved retention, a challenge in the nursing workforce, especially among newly registered nurses. In collaboration with evaluators at the University of Waterloo, Sunnybrook implemented an ECB intervention to bolster the program's evaluation capacity, bridge silos across clinical settings and embed standardized, evidence-informed processes. This case study describes this intervention while discussing lessons learned and recommendations for nurse leaders.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.161 | 0.302 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.020 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".