PLAY- VALIDATE – The Assumptions Behind Your Program

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PLAY- VALIDATE – The Assumptions Behind Your Program

Every graduate program runs on assumptions about its learners, faculty, employers, and alumni that get treated as settled fact instead of what they are: untested claims. VALIDATE is a four-step method — state the assumption, convert it into a falsifiable hypothesis, match the method to the stakes, and assign it to the right person — for finding out which of those assumptions are load-bearing, and which ones have simply never been tested.

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