New Perspectives in Science Education

The research study can provide important information, for instance, as curriculum quality [1]. A paradigm of curriculum evaluation describes the quality of an educational programme as transformative. [2] The present study concerns a three-semester Inter-Institutional Master of Science programme in Chemistry Education, Information and Communication Technology and Education for Sustainable Development that is organized by the Department of Chemistry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The programme aims at the professional development of postgraduate students and educates them in: (a) chemistry education research, (b) development new methods of teaching and assessment in chemistry, (c) connections between chemistry and chemical technology in everyday life, (d) development of education material using information and communication technologies, and (e) adoption of sustainable development goals in the teaching of chemistry. The present study describes an alumni online survey, that assesses graduates’ perceptions about the impact of the programme on their career paths based on the transformative paradigm [2]. Seventy-one (71) graduates from 2001 to 2022 responded. Although the weak point of this research is the low response rate of alumni mainly due to bad contact information, Lambert and Miller (2014) suggest that the differences of the response rates do not affect the representativeness of the results. [3] Overall, the programme received positive feedback.