Montana State University

Montana State University was designed to obtain feedback from the graduates to determine their career development-patterns, their opinions as to the strengths and weaknesses, of the curriculum they received, and their suggestions for improving the program. A normative survey method of research was utilized for this study since the respondents were scattered over a wide geographical area. One hundred eighty-three graduates were identified who received a Masters Degree in School Administration between June, 1955 and June, 1969. Current addresses were obtained on 149 of the graduates and they constituted the population of the study. A 75 per cent return (112 graduates) was experienced on the instrument. Graduate Record Examination and grade point average scores were secured on all graduates for whom these data were available in an effort-to determine the representativeness of the sample. Neither the mean GRE or GPA scores of the respondents differed significantly from the mean scores of the total population by use of the t-test at the.05 level of significance. The returned instruments were separated and tallied into early (1955-1964) and recent (1965-1969) graduates. This was done under the assumption that the more recent graduates opinions more adequately reflected conditions of the immediate past and should be considered separately in reporting the findings