Graduate surveys at Polish higher education institutions: Methodology, thematic scope and utilization of results.

In: Higher education studies in a global environment. Vol. 1., S. 79-95

Abstract

"The authoress analyses the practice of graduate surveys in Poland and questions the manner in which the results of these surveys are utilized. She provides an overview of graduate surveys in Poland and identifies their main objectives. She goes on to develop a model for the analysis of graduate surveys based on the kind of information they provide. In a second step, the authoress carried out telephone interviews with Polish coordinators of graduate surveys in order to find out information about their thematic scope and about the forms and ways in which the results have been used. Despite the fact that graduate surveys are a relatively wide-spread practice in Poland, the author concludes that there is no common standard yet, that there is no institutional cooperation, and that response rates are often not satisfactory. Furthermore, there is a considerable variance in the thematic scope of these surveys. The most common form of employing the results of Polish graduate surveys is to align study program curricula with the requirements of the labor market and the improvement of career service provisions at individual higher education institutions." (excerpt).