Thesis

CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

This chapter will discuss the background of the study, statement of the problem, objective, hypothesis, scope and limitation, significance of the study, and definition of terms.

INTRODUCTION

Tracer study is a method which is primarily intended to locate graduates in order to collect data and update information about this type of people. Some studies track down graduates in order to seek and develop continuous feedback from their alma mater. This kind of study is also conducted to generate or influence decision making and planning of a certain institution with regards to the development of the curriculum. It is also regulating document efficiency and support on the demographic profile of a certain institution that can be measured through the quality of graduates.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

-John F. Kennedy

The importance of education is basically for two reasons. The first is that the training of a human mind is not complete without education. Education makes a man right thinker. It tells man how to think and how to make decision. The second reason for the importance of education is that only through the attainment of education; man is enabled to receive information from the external world; to acquaint him with past history and receive all necessary information regarding the present. Without education, man is as though in a closed room and with education he finds himself in a room with all its windows open towards outside world.

The ideal career combines the dream of what a person wants to be with the reality of finding and working at a job that leads to that aim. Picking a career is the most important decision the average student makes.

Since 1999, the University of Caloocan City had its first batch of AB Mathematics...