The Influence of International Education Accreditation on a Graduate Health and Hospital Program

Wadi B. Alonazi

International Business Research, 2018, vol. 11, issue 2, 170-175

Abstract: The overriding objective was to compare the influence of Assurance of Learning (AoL), on several graduate students’ pedagogical outcomes before and after an international accreditation program. A self-administered questionnaire was employed to collect data from subjects enrolled in a graduate program. Out of 122 graduate students who voluntarily participated in the pretest (2015), only 88 students participated in the posttest (2017). Overall, the students expressed effective AoL in many pedagogical outcomes based on the post-accreditation process. A high positive correlation was observed between the overall effectiveness of AoL and communication skills (r = 0.875, p = 0.01). Of the pre-accredited group, 56.2% reported effective AoL outcomes; this percentage increased to 77.8%. The pretest and posttest results indicated significant differences in AoL (p

Keywords: accreditation; AoL; effectiveness; health and hospital administration; Saudi Arabia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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