TY - JOUR
T1 - A Developmental Approach to Graduate Education Review
T2 - A New Take on a Traditional Process
AU - Hakkola, Leah
AU - King, Jean A
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - In this article we describe the Graduate Review and Improvement Process (GRIP), an innovative evaluation process that makes student input central, now beginning its fifth year of implementation at the University of Minnesota. We begin by contrasting GRIP with traditional graduate program review, and we then explain the conceptual underpinnings of action research and developmental evaluation. We next explain how the process began and evolved from 2011 to the present, including discussion of the perceived benefits that participants reported. The article concludes with four challenges to this process: resources, changing leadership, turnover, and faculty engagement.
AB - In this article we describe the Graduate Review and Improvement Process (GRIP), an innovative evaluation process that makes student input central, now beginning its fifth year of implementation at the University of Minnesota. We begin by contrasting GRIP with traditional graduate program review, and we then explain the conceptual underpinnings of action research and developmental evaluation. We next explain how the process began and evolved from 2011 to the present, including discussion of the perceived benefits that participants reported. The article concludes with four challenges to this process: resources, changing leadership, turnover, and faculty engagement.
KW - Graduate education evaluation
KW - developmental evaluation
KW - innovative review
KW - program improvement
KW - student-centered review
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U2 - 10.1007/s10755-015-9338-3
DO - 10.1007/s10755-015-9338-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938631586
SN - 0742-5627
VL - 41
SP - 137
EP - 152
JO - Innovative Higher Education
JF - Innovative Higher Education
IS - 2
ER -