Quality assessment of professional degree programs

Delaney, A. (1997). Quality assessment of professional degree programs. Research in Higher Education, 38(2), 241-264.

Summary

This article demonstrates how a survey can be used to get valuable information on a broad range of assessments.  A well-designed survey like the one presented can be useful to design future studies, adjust curriculum, and or help make strategic direction decisions.  The framework presented in the article will help a researcher design a research plan, identify relevant issues and use appropriate analytical techniques.

Experience

This article goes into more depth for how to design a survey together useful, relevant information from a population.  It is a particularly useful reference for me when thinking about how I want to engage a population and what type of information I want to gather from them.  I was able to use the framework laid out in this article to design a questionnaire that enabled me to get information I had never had about a project I am working on right now.  This enabled me to create a product using more user insights than I had ever had in the past.

KEYWORDS: perceived assessment, data collection, analytical techniques, sample size, scales, reliability coefficient, bivariate, multivariate