This web site is mainly dedicated to research and experiences with graduate tracer studies.
It will be developed as a resource center for tracer studies:
- Links to tracer studies in VET and HE
- Collection of questionnaires for free download and use
- Proposals for the methodology of tracer studies
- Proposals for a sample questionnaire and optional questions
- Theoretical background of questions
You can download here also some programmes developed at the University Kassel by Harald Schomburg and Martin Guist (QTAFI) to support the conduction of tracer studies.
The new Tracer Study Handbook is now available
Schomburg, Harald: Carrying out tracer studies. In: ETF/CEDEFOP/ILO (eds.): Guide to anticipating and matching skills and jobs. Volume 6. Torino: ETF 2016. New tracer study handbook (2016) download
Please send your comments and proposals to Harald Schomburg (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
23.10.2017
EXLIMA 2020 (Malawi, April 2020)
The international conference EXLIMA 2020 aims at serving the exchange of information on tracer studies both methodologically and content-wise:
• To deepen the understanding of the links between curricula, learning, competences and graduate employment and work;
• To discuss the use and misuse of tracer studies for quality assessment, accountability and ranking;
• To discuss how tracer studies have to be designed and implemented in order to elicit the most valuable results;
• To bring researchers from VET/TVET and HE together;
• To contribute to the development of international standards of tracer studies (objectives/questions and methodology).
This international conference continues and deepens the work of the first three international tracer study conferences which were held in Bali 2012, 2015 and 2018 with more than 300 participants from Africa, America, Asia and Europe.
Participants: We expect a total of about 200 participants, mainly from research institutes, schools, colleges and universities engaged and interested in Graduate Tracer Studies .
Expected output: Selected contributions will be published.
More information will be soon available.
Contact:
Richmond Chatose Chinula
Policy, Research and Planning Manager
National Council for Higher Education
Area 47, Chitukuko Area
PBag B371
Lilongwe 3
MALAWI
Office: +265 (0) 1 755 884
Mobile: +265 (0) 999 969 979
Other email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: www.nche.ac.mw
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The first INGRADNET meeting was 2009 in Berlin in relation with the international EMBAC conference. The participants decided to establish the network and elected Harald Schomburg as the coordinator.
It was further decided to start with "International Mobility" as the first topic to develop standards for tracer studies.
Argentina
No regular national tracer studies
Canada
No regular national tracer studies
Latest national study: National Graduates Survey (NGS)
Sample survey with a cross-sectional design; response rate 49%; telephone interviews
Web site: http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5012
http://www.rdc-cdr.ca/datasets/ngs-national-graduates-survey
Chile
No regular national tracer studies
Colombia
No regular national tracer studies
Costa Rica
Regular national tracer studies of public institutions by CONARE
Diana Arce and Lorena Kikut: Estudio de Seguimiento a personas graduadas en el período 2003-2010 de diez programas de posgrado de las cuatro universidades públicas (CONARE). Presentation at the Seminar "Tracer Studies in Central America: Findings and their relevance for University Strategies and Curriculum Development". San José, Costa Rica, February 28, 2013. (download).
El Salvadore
No regular national tracer studies
Guatemala
No regular national tracer studies
Eduardo M. Alvarez and Harry Debroy: The experience of Graduates Tracer Studies at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG): Design, Implementation and Dissemination of the Results. Presentation at the Seminar "Tracer Studies in Central America: Findings and their relevance for University Strategies and Curriculum Development". San José, Costa Rica, February 28, 2013. (download)
Honduras
No regular national tracer studies
Jean O’dell Rivera de Anckle: Las buenas prácticas para la mejora continua de la calidad en la educación superior. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras – UNAH. Presentation at the Seminar "Tracer Studies in Central America: Findings and their relevance for University Strategies and Curriculum Development". San José, Costa Rica, February 28, 2013. (download)
Mexico
No regular national tracer studies
Nicaragua
No regular national tracer studies
Priscila González (Universidad Americana): Incidencias del estudio de seguimiento de graduados en el diseño curricular de la carrera de Ingeniería en Sistemas. Presentation at the Seminar "Tracer Studies in Central America: Findings and their relevance for University Strategies and Curriculum Development". San José, Costa Rica, February 28, 2013. (download)
Raul I. Ruiz and Manuel Rivera: Tracer Study of Graduates from the Faculty of Humanities and Law and Faculty of Education Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua-Managua (UNAN-Managua). Presentation at the International Conference "Experiences with Link and Match in Higher Education. Results of Tracer Studies Worldwide (EXLIMA)". Bali, Indonesia, October 22 - 23 2012. (download).
Raúl Ruiz Carrión and Manuel Rivera Ramírez: Tracer Studies for University Developments – the case of UNAN-Managua, Nicaragua. Presentation at the Seminar "Tracer Studies in Central America: Findings and their relevance for University Strategies and Curriculum Development". San José, Costa Rica, February 28, 2013. (download).
Raúl Ruiz Carrión: Estudio de seguimiento de egresados y empleadores de formacion inicial docente de educacion primaria o basica de Nicaragua, 2002-2006. Presentation (download).
Panama
No regular national tracer studies
USA
Many tracer studies in different settings
Cabrera, Albert F.; Weerts, David R. and Zulick, Bradford J.: Making an Impact with Alumni Surveys. In: Weerts, David, J. and Vidal, Javier (eds.): Enhancing Alumni Research. European and American Perspectives. San Francisco: Jossey Bass 2005 (New Directions for Institutional Research, 126). 5-16.
Ewell, Peter T.: Alumni Studies as Instruments of Public Policy: The U.S. Experience. In: Weerts, David, J. and Vidal, Javier (eds.): Enhancing Alumni Research. European and American Perspectives. San Francisco: Jossey Bass 2005 (New Directions for Institutional Research, 126), 19-29.
National panel study: Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B)
Web site: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/b&b/
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