Erin E. Bowen

Assessing Programmatic Design and Quality for a Professional High- Technology Graduate Education Program: A Conceptual Framework

The historical documentation of the development of aviation technology graduate education provides a contextual basis to understand the present need for online post-baccalaureate professional education. Within a case design structure, this article employs the action research framework to assess program design and quality for a newly developed distance-based graduate professional program. The continuous improvement basis deployed herein provides opportunity for immediate program assessment and ongoing quality improvement. The key outcome of this applied case example can be adapted to any professional graduate program as a solution for the maintenance of overall programmatic responsiveness and resulting quality.