caa a22 4500 477138748 CHVBK 20180405111726.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1024989805110 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1024989805110 Delaney Anne Academic Affairs Division, Babson College, Horn Library 313, 02157-0310, Babson Park, MA aut Quality Assessment of Professional Degree Programs [Elektronische Daten] [Anne Delaney] Based on a completed study of alumni of a master's degree teacher education program at a large northeastern university, this article demonstrates how alumni research can be designed to focus assessment on student outcomes and be responsive to program goals, policy concerns of administrators, instructional values of the faculty, and standards of professional practice. The article presents a conceptual framework, a research design plan, identification of relevant issues, appropriate analytical techniques, and selected findings with substantial relevance to other professional degree programs. Results confirm the importance of satisfaction with courses, perception of professional growth, and level of intellectual challenge on graduates' overall evaluation of the program. The methodological approaches and substantive issues raised in this study potentially enhance researchers' ability to design future assessment studies that will impact the policy development and program planning of other professional degree programs. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1997 Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/2(1997-04-01), 241-264 0361-0365 38:2<241 1997 38 11162 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024989805110 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024989805110 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Delaney Anne Academic Affairs Division, Babson College, Horn Library 313, 02157-0310, Babson Park, MA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/2(1997-04-01), 241-264 0361-0365 38:2<241 1997 38 11162 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer