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Tracer Study Research 2017 2018
Tracer Study Research 2017 2018
Alpapara, Joshua
Bucasas, Robin
Calitong, Jepthah
Polves, Mark
Altarejos, Noralyn
Maranan, Esmeralda
Ronal F. Cagampan
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CHAPTER ONE
This chapter discusses the background of the study, as well as the problem
chosen by the researchers. The study aims to trace all the 2017-2018 graduates
INTRODUCTION
percent of 503 employers surveyed by Jobstreet said they would hire them. Thirty-
five percent said they wouldn't while 41 percent were "indefinite." By the BPO
include that the manufacturing, professional services, retail, and machinery and
That they would be willing to hire K-12 graduates said they could offer accounting,
administrative and operational roles. Companies who are not keen on hiring K to
12 graduates said they only have job vacancies for college graduates, he said.
Landing in different jobs in different employers in different fields, the graduates are
still rooted to the institution they graduated from. Gathering them together means
one can discover that they almost have the same acquired skills learned way back
in their academic years. However, for they are employed not in the same
employer, the skills are utilized in many different ways. Forms of writing, theories,
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taking photos, and delivering news are unique skills, but the jobs available at hand
are limited to these. This study aims to scrutinize the employability of the senior
These lines from the Senior High School inspired hundreds of graduates of
the said school not to fail the country and to serve it wholeheartedly, for it did not
fail them in their academic life. With the primary aim of Department of Education to
the students of Senior High School, teachers & the school itself for them to easily
find every profile of such student. It's about the ''SVNHS TRACER" that allows you
Village National High School SHS grounds. Aside from results of the evaluation of
the NESC & NESC, foremost was UNESCO report on that four Pillars of Education
relationship with fellow humans beings along with the development of functional
literacy which involves the development of the essential skills such “linguistic
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
years, but the rapid rate of change in education and the past obsolescence of
make it responsive to emerging changes in the needs of the learner and the
society.
(UbD) model developed by (Jay Mctighe & Grant Wiggins). DepEd considered this
a new hope for our educational system because it attains mastery of the subject
area in the secondary education. This implored us to think about the outcomes,
goals, and objectives we had for student learning first and the plan instruction and
develop curriculum to close the gap between what the students already know and
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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
success in any system requires more than the best efforts and hard work for the
administration. 95% of the problems belong to the system and the responsibility of
the management while the works are just trying to do the best job that they can
process within an organization that work together for its aim. Purpose defines the
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thrust a system input, on the other hand, is characterized as the primary element
What is the response rate of the graduates 12 from academic year and
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1.1 Name
1.2 Age
1.3 Gender
4. To know what vocational course or degree course are you going to take
after SHS and in what school are you planning to Enroll?
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6.1 Public
6.2 Private
7.1 Commitment
following:
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The Graduates/Alumni
able to compare and contrast their past and present relationship with their
colleagues. Also, they will be aware of the job opportunities to them, and be able
to pursue these.
This will serve as a strong evidence for media companies, and even for
from PUP-COC really are. This study will open job opportunities for the graduates
and for the students from the same university who will soon aspire to be media
practitioners.
significant to itself. Through the years of educating the youth for the masses. This
study tracked its graduates and evaluated their present statuses. Through this the
how well are they in their respective workplace, if they have jobs connected with
their courses, and give honor to the university at the same time.
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To the Faculty
uplifting the minds of the students to be completive, excel in their respective areas
take active participation in the globally competitive world for service and
To the Parent's
The will serve as parent's guide in encouraging and motivating their college
To the Students
The study will serve as their motivation to study harder in pursuing their
Future Researchers
Future researchers may use this study as reference for their researches,
especially those who wish to continue tracing the graduates of this course and of
this college.
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This tracer study traced the Signal Village National High School. To avoid
confusion on the part of the respondents, all batches that were already traced
were excluded i n this study, with the previous senior high school tracer study last
year. Batches 2017-2018 to present were also excluded for they just graduated
Senior High School only. The researchers were able to trace graduate students on
their different chosen fields. The researchers were also able to identify the different
careers they have chosen, and to determine if all of their careers right now are still
in line with the media industry. Respondents are of all of gender, civil status,
The researchers limit the scope of the study with regards to the participants'
compliance to the researchers. The results were based solely on the respondents’
DEFINITION OF TERMS
keep track of a group of persons and find out their lifestyle as compared to their
previous years. It also investigates the graduates after completing a certain degree
of specialization.
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K to 12–to provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills, develop lifelong
learners, and prepare graduates for tertiary education middle-level skills development,
employment, and entrepreneurship.
SVNHS – stands for Signal Village National High School
certain place. This may include the name, gender, age, or religion of a person.
information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same
time. Graduates of this program may be employed in jobs such as reporters, news
institution.
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CHAPTER TWO
This chapter represents the conceptual and research literatures that are
relevant to an inquiry of the study. It includes different sources like books, surveys,
and magazines.
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CHAPTER TWO
This chapter represents the conceptual and research literatures that are
relevant to an inquiry of the study. It includes different sources like books, surveys,
and magazines.
to determine that the employee’s performance on the job and attitude about the
job would depend on the degree to which the manager fulfills the needs.
The author associated that to the employees that will look at the
performance and attitude towards the job that will be strongly affected by the
degree on where the superior may reach the fulfillment on the job desires.
The book, Unemployment and the Dual Labor Market stressed that the
limited information about the labor market. On the other hand, people who first
begin looking for jobs lack basic information will help the graduates to disseminate
LOCAL LITERATURE
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students once they have graduated from the institution. Through tracer study, an
knowing the graduates placements and positions in the society which later can be
There are books that we can use as a tool for studying different aspects of
education and for studying the present topic which is “A Tracer Study on The
Arcelo and Sanyal, the existence of a huge number of educated unemployed can
lead to a certain amount of political instability in a country, for they being among
the educated class and knowledgeable about the privileges society can offer, feel
doubly deprived. In this matter, the analysis of the unemployment situation in the
Philippines shown that the young graduates is still in the job-hunting stage. This
book is concerned to the graduates of AB Journalism that will be hunting jobs after
they graduated. Also, if the trainings and learning’s in the journalism program will
FOREIGN STUDIES
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tool where the “impact on target groups is traced back to specific elements of a
graduate or alumni survey since its target group is former students. Schomburg
(2003, p.36) notes that graduate surveys are popular for “analysis of the
structural data on employment and career, the character of work and related
their graduates. Although the usual end of the course evaluation can ask for the
student to assess whether they have gained the knowledge and skills necessary
for fulfilling their personal objectives, there is really little proof of this until the
student has completed the entire course of study and has entered the workforce.
addressed in tracer studies. Biographical data on “Where are our graduates now”
may supply information on income, job title, nature of employment, and years of
employment. He also believes that surveys should also include information “about
the kind of work task the relationship between study and work, and professional
LOCAL STUDIES
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“Education is our passport for the future, for tomorrow belongs to the
people who prepare for it today”, this was the claim of African-American human
rights activist, and Muslim Minister, Malcolm Little. Indeed the trend of modern
society today prioritizes and employs most of educated people rather than the
right and not a privilege to some. In the ever innovating and fast-paced society,
The Philippines is, at present, the top 20 most populated country in the
South- East Asia, and Asia’s Show Window of Democracy, yet there is a high
range of gap between the poor and the rich. A wide economic inequality is clear
Statistical coordination Board in 2005, it was realized that the income gap, or the
economic inequality in the Philippines was wider than in Thailand and Indonesia.
It can be noted that the income of the Philippines’s richest ten percent of
the population was in fact twenty times the income of the poorest ten percent.
percent in from 7.1 percent in January 2013, that was the situation of the Job
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Market that the approximately 700,00 graduates of March 2014 had faced as they
Every now and then, we could not assure that these graduates could find a
job, or a job suited on their course right away, According to Alan Tajunsay, Trade
get hired right away based on the last National Statistics Survey. This situation of
our economic status about the more increasing labor force portrays more
economy because they could offer professional work and services to our country.
The negative side of this large labor force is that when they are unemployed, they
will add to the 2.96 Filipinos that has no jobs. Difficulty in finding a job in our
economy is what we are facing because our economy gives us jobs which are
more and more contractual in manner and is unstable. They do this to achieve and
assure the competence and quality of work and services that the new hires has to
employment settle for quality and not the quantity of jobs being generated. The
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STUDIES
rift with each other. Through educated, the job hunt for each graduate to be
The Signal Village National High School, throughout the years of its
program. Employees have their own reasons in staying in a certain job, such as its
compensation, the workplace, the employer, and their co-workers. Skills are one of
better place in the society, higher self-esteem, and of course, more job
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CHAPTER THREE
Research Methodology
METHOD OF RESEARCH
answer the research question and its objectives. A survey is a data collection tool
may focus on factual information about individuals, or it might aim to collect the
opinions of the survey takers. Surveys are generally standardized to ensure that
they have reliability and validity. Standardization is also important so that the
in common that is the subject of a statistical analysis (Daughtry, 1995, Basha and
Harter, 1980).
School from batch 2017 to 2018. In this light, the probability non-random clustered
sampling technique was used. This was utilized in order to identify the samples so
the researchers could generalize the findings from the observe sample population.
The simple non-random clustered sampling was used by the researchers in this
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study. It is a probability sampling that assures each person from the total
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
to gather the data and information, which is either given or sent to people who are
requested to answer some queries. A survey is a written list of questions, and the
considered as the cheapest method and it can cover wider area in a short span of
Survey gives respondents ample time to think about each question and
write down appropriate responses, thus producing accurate information for better
respondents. These are the basic information about the respondents’ identification
such as his/her name, current address, gender, age, and civil status.
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The second part is about the educational profile of the respondents, that is
composed of the year of his graduation, his post-graduate studies, his professional
examinations taken.
The third part discusses about the respondent’s experience after college,
with.
The fourth part consists of the respondent’s employment profile. It asks the
The last part discovers the future career plans of the respondents. The
survey has close ended questions which are answerable by yes or no selections in
which the respondents could choose more than one response for the reason that
the information will be more accurate. Some questions, however, were open-
ended and the respondents must write down their answers on the space provided.
The researchers used primary and secondary data in analyzing the study.
Primary sources were gathered through survey methods. The primary data were
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Theses of the previous graduates are stored in the SVNHS, that they would
be willing to hire K-12 graduates said they could offer accounting, administrative
and operational roles. Companies who are not keen on hiring K to 12 graduates
said they only have job vacancies for college graduates, he said, landing in
The following statistical tools will be used in the presentation and analysis
given category.
respondents.
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CHAPTER FOUR
SCHOOL TRACER STUDY, among its profile to be trace. This chapter shows the
Table 1
As shown in Table 1, of the 299 respondents, 125 or 41.8% are male and
174 or 58.2% are female. There are more female alumni than male.
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Table 2
Table 3
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Table 4
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Table 5
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Table 6
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Table 7
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Table 8
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