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Every year schools, colleges, and universities all over the country turn over to
society a graduate ready to go out into the world. But how are they prepared to face life?
Is diploma enough to guarantee that they will find a stable job? (Corpuz, 2000)
measured through the employability and transformation they gained as they exposed
themselves to the real world. And to find out if an institution is effective in helping its
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) defines a tracer study as an impact assessment tool
where the “impact on target groups is traced back to specific elements of a project or
survey are popular for “analysis of the relationship between higher education and work.”
The effectiveness of the tracer study can be judged according to the success or failure of
the graduates to make use of their acquired skills and training for economic progress, and
Peng- Tan and Nang (2012), averred that tracing graduates is an important action
on the part of the institution, making it an essential tool in the evaluation of institution’s
programs for improvement. Hence, the study aim to trace the employment status of
Guindaruhan National High School graduates in the year 2008 - 2009 ,to determine
which facets were successful in helping the graduates of that year achieve their career
goals. Moreover, the fact that our society is changing at an equally accelerated pace,
Alumni programs in order to deal with the future development of the programs.
evaluation strategy. However, there are some specific considerations to make the result
more valid and reliable. In this regard, (Flaherty and Morell, 1978) argued that if follow
unique nature of evaluation as a form of social research. Basically, tracer study must be
guided by the two principles. First, data bear a heavy responsibility for generating
information on the value and validity of what has been found. Second, tracer study can’t
Therefore, the main objective of this tracer study was to trace the graduates of
GNHS not only to find out their whereabouts but also to get information on activity status
to make sure that the knowledge and skills of individual learned during the training are in
use. This can be verified by their post training information. The gathered information
from the tracer study is not only applicable to identify the employment status of graduates
This study aimed to determine the employment status of the Alumni graduates of
intervention study.
1.1 Age;
1.2 Gender;
provide valuable information for evaluating the results of the higher education and
training institutions.
Tracer study will benefit every institution most especially, the DepEd and
the schools because it will help them to know what is now the status of their products
Alumni. The study will provide new idea to the alumni of GNHS with
Students. This study will also serve as reference for future studies and ill
competing globally.
about tracer study as a guide in developing instruments that they can use in the