1. Assessing Student Outcomes in Graduate Programs Lizanne DeStefano March 5, 2008

2. Guiding Questions You have already been talking about undergraduate outcomes assessment. In what ways could the activities you are planning for undergraduate outcome assessment be used with your graduate programs?

3. Guiding Questions In what ways do your graduate programs differ from undergraduate? How might this affect the ways in which you collect and analyze outcome information?

4. Guiding Questions What unit of analysis makes sense for graduate outcomes assessment? Masters; Doctoral Degree program; concentration

5. Guiding Questions What processes/assessments are currently in place that might serve as good sources of outcome data? What adaptations are needed to enable them to produce good outcome information?

6. Guiding Questions What additional data are needed to gain a good picture of the outcomes associated with your graduate program?

7. Guiding Questions What questions to you have? What do you see as the biggest challenge to assessing graduate outcomes in your unit?