palmer & reynolds
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What Makes for a Successful Dissertation Advising Relationship? Adviser and Advisee
tell AllCandyce Reynolds, PhD
Ryan Palmer, EdD
• What are the common challenges you face in advising your doctoral students?
Your "Problems in Practice"
• Background• Long history of non and slow completers• Lots of support at the beginning, little support at the end
• 3 years and done
PSU's "Problem in Practice"
Re-envisioned programPost- mastersEdD not PhDSplit offCohort basedCommitment to high quality examinations of problem in practice
PSU's "Problem in Practice"
Meet Ryan Palmer, MFA
• MFA to to medical education course administrator to EdD in 3 years• Award-winning, high-quality dissertation in practice• With great prospects for the future
HOW????
Meet Candyce Reynolds, Ph.D.
• Post-secondary specialization faculty• Worked with 4 advisees in the new cohort• 3 of the 4 students finished in 3 years
Story of Our Journey together
• Selection Process• Picky
• Making sure this was the right program for student..Higher Education Leadership• Disposition—commitment to success
• Matching faculty/student interests
What we did as a Program
• Early Contact and Availability of adviser• You will be DONE in 3 years…
What we did as a program
• Cohort structure• Curriculum structure—focus on Problem on Practice• Everything built to the dissertation
What we did as a Program
• Nag• Be his biggest fan
• And then…
What I did as an Adviser
• Started working on Problem in Practice in first term• Skill development
What I did as an Adviser
• Second year:• Small cohort—my advisees• Focus on writing proposal: Anatomy of Dissertation
• Fall, Chapter one• Winter, Chapter two• Spring, Chapter three (and you are ready to defend your proposal!)
• Third Year• Friendly, supportive competition• Cohort writing structure
What I did as an Adviser
• Made sure he was ready.
What I did as an Adviser
• I kept my eye on the prize- "Perfect is the enemy of done."
What I did as an advisee
• Stayed focused and sought guidance• Based dissertation on my work
What I did as an advisee
• Facebook page• Cohort—encouraging each other
What I did as an advisee
• Good email communicator• Not an perfectionist• Ideas versus details
What I did as an advisee
• Program Structures make a difference• apples make applesauce• cohort model• skill and idea development embedded in curriculum
Lessons Learned
• Ongoing support of adviser• Creating context for success• Goals change over time but still a focus on finishing
Lessons Learned
• Tenacity trumps brillance• Early and ongoing contact• Build the relationship--working and personal• Asked for what I needed
Lessons Learned
No Excuses!
Never lose sight of the goal
• How do you take these lessons learned and apply them to your "problems in practice?• What have you found that works in your advising relationships?
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