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THE ATENEO DE DAVAO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE TRACER : An Online Tool for

Graduate Tracer Studies

Conference Paper · November 2013

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 Abstract

THE ATENEO DE DAVAO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE TRACER : An

Online Tool for Graduate Tracer Studies
by Michelle Banawan and Jose Mari Freires

Graduate tracer studies provide important information that will help educational insti-
tutions assess the attainment of its vision, mission and goals.

This research project involves the development of a graduate tracer tool using Informa-
tion Systems development as the research framework. It is a web application that also
allows the users to create custom tracer surveys applicable to their ovn contexts. It also
includes the conduct of a graduate tracer study to Information Technology graduates of
the Ateneo de Davao University in the recent five (5) years.

The research project proposes a stakeholder-based framework in the overall conduct

of the graduate tracer initiative, most especially during the Requirements Engineering
phase of the development, and to view it as an ongoing process which starts while
the students are still within the University and takes advantage of the web and internet
technologies. This framework resulted to three specific survey types and target audiences
that the tool is designed for: 1. The Graduating Class; 2. The Alumni; and 3. Industry
partners.

With the iterative systems development as the chosen research framework, feedback
gathered from the pre-tests and the prototyping generated relevant contributions to the
development of the graduate tracer tool.

According to M. Shaw (2003), Software Engineering Research (SER) may be those that
(1) involve the implementation of a tool using a technique, or any formalism or (2)
seek to implement a solution to a problem in a chosen context and use SE principles in
this implementation. This paper is a combination of both and is deemed to have two
contibutions: (1) to add to the domain of actual researches conducted that uses Software
Engineering as the research method, and (2) the development of the Graduate Tracer
Tool that conceptualizes the specifications of the requirements of academic communities
for graduate tracer studies.

This particular software engineering research result, i.e. the Graduate Tracer Tool, was
validated using appropriate empirical methods.
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