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
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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