Handbook for Graduate Tracer Studies

This handbook is a practical guide - not a theoretical or methodological one. We tried to put as much as possible our practical knowledge and skills gained in the conduction and involvement in many tracers studies in this handbook. We hope to enable you to avoid most of the pitfalls and cliffs in the process of implementing a survey we faced. The handbook is based on the "Standard Instrument" (see Schomburg, 1995), a result of a GTZ initiated project, taken up by the staff of the Centre for Research and Higher Education and Work of the University of Kassel in 1991/92. The "Standard Instrument" and especially the specimen questionnaires were used in a wide range of projects and studies in many countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
New efforts to improve the "Standard Instrument" were undertaken with the assistance and in co-operation with InWEnt/DSE in the years 2001-2003.
Especially the experiences from workshops on Tracer studies in Costa Rica, Honduras, Indonesia, Panama, the Philippines, Namibia, Nicaragua and South Africa showed a need for an extended Handbook on Tracer Studies.

A first version was used and tested in Indonesia during a workshop at the Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.

 

Last version: 2. October 2003

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