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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?