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Creating a Culture of Collaboration:
Graduate Program Assessment
Katerina Tsetsura Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
Culture of Collaboration
Gaylord College
graduate degrees:
Master of Arts
Master of
Professional Writing
Ph.D.
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Gaylord College
Assessment: My first impressions
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Gaylord College
“If you can’t measure it, it does not exist”
Reality does not actually exist until it is measured. (Manning et al., 2015 in Nature Physics)
“Researchers at the Australian National University showed that reality does not actually exist until it is measured – at atomic scales, at least."
(Jeffrey, 2015: http://newatlas.com/quantum-theory-reality-anu/37866/ )
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Gaylord College
Culminating experience: What we assess
The Gaylord College Graduate Programs:
•Thesis (MA)
•Project (MA and MPW)
•Exam (MA)
•Dissertation (Ph.D.)
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Gaylord College
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Gaylord College
The road to assessment: What we learned
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Gaylord College
•Take your time
•Listen
•Answer the big question
•Tell a story
Take your time
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Gaylord College
•Assessment is a process, do not rush into it
•Make assessment a part of everyday talk
•Provide plenty of time to think and reflect
•We all appreciate having a bit of time
to think about important issues
Listen
•Listen to your colleagues
•Let them talk
•Provide plenty of opportunities
to express opinions on what SLOs and PEOs of your program should be
•Often, the more your colleagues talk,
the easier and faster they will arrive to conclusion that assessment is necessary and that it is measurable.
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Gaylord College
Answer: What’s in it for me?
Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Gaylord College
•The Big Question people ask: What’s in it for me?
•Find the answer that is right for you/your unit
•We want to attract the top candidates
to our graduate programs and have well-qualified GAs
•We do assessment of our graduate programs so that we can have
proof why we want/do not want to change our curricula
Tell a story with assessment… What’s yours?
A story of the first OU president…
… measured
and assessed success!
Dr. Katerina Tsetsura
Gaylord College
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @tsetsura