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The Graduate Review and Improvement Process (GRIP) Department of Organiza- tional Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD)

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Why OLPD? Why now? Who?RoleWhy? Ken BartlettCEHD Associate Dean (also OLPD Professor) Interest in an innovative review process Rebecca Ropers- Huilman- OLPD ChairHigher education expertise Jean KingOLPD DGSProgram evaluation expertise Leah Hakkola OLSA (OLPD student association) president Higher education AND program evaluation expertise

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Conceptual grounding Changing the way our program does program review

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Classic (1967) evaluation terms 4 FORMATIVE evaluation Evaluation for program improvement Often done for program developers and implementers SUMMATIVE evaluation Typically done at the end of a project Often done for accountability purposes

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A newer approach (the 1990s) 5 DEVELOPMENTAL evaluation "Evaluation processes undertaken for the purpose of supporting program [development], project staff [development], and/or organizational development" -Michael Quinn Patton

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Another grounding: Action research PLAN ACTOBSERVE REFLECT 6

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What do these approaches share? Continuous improvement Flexibility Learning Reflection Problem solving Evaluator/researcher as collaborator with participants Deliberate transparency 7

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The OLPD GRIP pilot Applying these to our OLPD context 8

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GRIP: The OLPD pilot Methods Surveys Analysis of existing data Group interviews Engagement Processes