LOPEZ, COLEEN A.

RES01
MERAÑA, MA. PATRICIA S.
BTLED IA-III

Title: Impact of Industrial Arts Activities to Senior High School Graduates for Employment

Definition of Terms
Industrial Arts - A course of study aimed at developing the manual and technical skills required
to work with tools and machinery. (Your Dictionary, n.d).

Activities - are the things that they do in order to achieve their aims. (Collins COBUILD
Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, n.d).

Employment - is a paid work agreement between an employer and an employee. that the
employee will provide certain services. In return, the employee is paid a salary or hourly wage.
Although employees can negotiate certain items in an employment agreement, the terms and
conditions are primarily determined by the employer. Both parties may also terminate the
agreement. (Heathfield, 2020).

Literature & Studies

The state of the industrial arts is a fact of group life, not of individual or private initiative
or innovation. It is an affair of collectivity, not a creative achievement of individuals working
self-sufficiently in severalty or in isolation. In the main, the state of the industrial arts is always a
heritage out of the past; it is always a process of change, perhaps, but the substantial body of it is
knowledge that has come down from earlier generations. New elements of insight and
proficiency are continually being added and worked in to this common stock by the experience
and initiativity of the current generation, but such novel elements are always and everywhere
slight and inconsequential in comparison with the body of technology that has been carried over
from the past. (Veblen,2017).

In 2019 and 2020, the Bureau of Curriculum Development (BCD) conducted a National
SHS Tracer Study – a mixed methods research, which aimed at determining the curriculum exits
taken by learners after having graduated from the Senior High School in SY 2017-2018. A
majority of 82.67% of the graduates pursued higher education while 10.22% got employed. Only
a small percentage engaged in entrepreneurship (1.30%) and middle-level skills development
(0.42%). 5.39 % of the graduates did not pursue any of the exits after SHS graduation.
(Llego,2020).