Usefulness of Collegiate Aviation Publications: What Aviation Educators Say

Abstract

Evaluations of refereed research journals typically target their quality. Because of the hybrid nature of aviation education as a discipline and its orientation toward applied research, this research expands the scope of the evaluation process to encompass professional publications that address practitioner interests and focuses on three educational areas: 1) quality, 2) contribution to the discipline, and 3) relevance to ongoing research. Thirty-one out of 205 aviation educators queried responded to the survey by selecting and assessing periodicals pertinent to the discipline. One trade journal, Aviation Week and Space Technology, and four peer-refereed journals, the Collegiate Aviation Review, the Journal of Air Transportation, International Journal of Applied Aviation Studies, and the Journal of Aviation and Aerospace Education and Research achieved the highest composite scores based on analysis of the survey responses.