The NASPAA Alumni Survey Pilot: Design and Analyses

Abstract

For the past several years, the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) has been interested in encouraging forms of outcome assessment to evalu ate, improve, and assist in the accreditation of programs in public administration. As part of that continuing effort, in 1990 the NASPAA Committee on Outcomes Assessment developed and pilot-tested an alumni survey that could be used by member schools. The authors describe the genesis of that project, the survey instrument that was developed, the practical pointers on how to administer such a survey, and present a discussion of the types of analysis obtained from such surveys. The illustrative analyses are based on an aggregate sample of schools that pilot-tested the survey.

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