Presently, 25 institutions have fielded the Evaluation Taskforce survey since 2004. Typically, institutions have surveyed one or more cohorts of recent program graduates. Some limited their survey administration to only recent graduates and used only the first half the survey items. Others surveyed all graduates up to 10 years prior and used the whole survey. The scope of the survey administration influences analyses. Some institutions have multiple programs and have compared results between the two programs; others have compared graduates cross multiple years to determine whether program changes influence graduate outcomes.

Informal reports from faculty who used the survey with their graduates have shown significant benefits in having the survey results for their institution and comparison results from other institutions:

1. It highlights areas for program improvement, particularly in program areas and in areas of graduate learning that are rated lower that other areas and than exists in other institutions;
2. It highlights how differences (within an institution)  in program delivery (such as district partnerships, cohort structures, and theory to practice connections in program content) relate to differences in program outcomes; 
3. It illustrates how program changes over time (particularly pre- and post-program redesign to meet ELCC standards) are observable in differences in graduates’ ratings of their program experiences and their learning and career advancement outcomes.

In informal reports to the taskforce, individual researchers explained how they and their institution’s faculty discussed the survey results and used the findings to guide program improvement. As shown in Table 1 below, 9 institutions have used the survey on their own for program improvement purposes, with one or more programs and one or more cohorts of graduates.

Table 1: Programs that have completed the UCEA/LTEL-SIG Survey of Leadership Preparation and Practice (A Follow-up Survey of Graduates and Alumni) (2003-present)