Questionnaires for alumni and employers
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External Review Panelists have developed various questionnaires to survey alumnae and employers of alumnae. Off-site panel members often take up this task because it can be accomplished electronically. Here are samples that can be adapted and used.
Alumni questionnaire
Hello,
I am [Name], a member of the ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ’s accreditation panel (External Review Panel) reviewing the [Master of ?] program for [School] at [Institution]. I have been given your name by [School] as a graduate. I would like to ask you some questions. I can call you if you’d like or you can return this questionnaire to me by email at [email address]. If you would like to call me, I am at [phone #].
Name:
Year graduated:
Location program was offered:
- Did the program prepare you for . . .
- Your first job?
- Your current job?
- Have you been involved in continuing education? If yes, through what program?
- What have proved to be the most helpful things you learned in your master’s program?
- What did you learn that is most applicable (useful, most vital) to your current position?
- What course or courses do you wish you had taken or been offered?
- Were you able to construct a coherent program of study?
- Could you specialize in your area of interest?
- What led you to choose [Institution]?
- Would you still make that same decision?
- Did [Institution] meet your expectations?
- Why?
- Why not?
- Are you involved with the school in any way now?
- Curriculum review?
- Accreditation review?
- Selection of the dean or faculty members?
- Did you receive course and career counseling?
- a. Did you have input into your course of study?
- b. Did you have a particular faculty advisor?
- How would you rate the advising process?
- Was the school helpful in getting a job?
- Do you continue to interact with your advisor?
- Do you consider the advisor a mentor?
- Did you use the placement services offered at [Institution]?
- Were faculty members in your program approachable?
- Did you feel they were experts in their field?
- Did they share their own research with you?
Employer questionnaire
Hello,
I am [Name], a member of the ÂÜÀòÍøÊÓƵ’s accreditation panel (External Review Panel) reviewing the [Master of ?] program in the [School] at [Institution]. I have been given your name by [School] as an employer of their graduates. I would like to ask you some questions. I can call you if you’d like or you can return this questionnaire to me by email at [email address]. If you would like to call me, I am at [phone #].
Organization:
Name:
- How many [Institution] graduates have you hired in the past five years?
- Did you use the [Institution] placement services? What was your experience with that?
- Have you been satisfied with [Institution] graduates as employees?
- How long were these graduates in your employ?
- Have they been promoted within your institution?
- Why did they leave?
- Did [Institution] graduates come to you with sufficient library skills and understanding of your job needs?
- What were their strengths?
- What were their weaknesses?
- Did graduates have sufficient technology background?
- Have they been able to learn and adapt to new technologies?
- Are they receptive to them?
- What other training do you wish they had received?
- How have [Institution] graduates contributed to the profession?
- To your organization?
- To the community?
- To professional associations?