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Measure of Progress without stress

Definition: 

1. Measuring progress refers to monitoring how much your students learn and how  they develop over a period of time. 

2. Measuring progress enables schools and teachers to identify areas of strength and  areas for improvement, and to prioritise actions.  

3. At an individual student level, it enables teachers to recognize students who are  making good progress and those who might need extra support.  

4. It also provides a means for evaluating the impact of different approaches, strategies  and teaching practices. It is very difficult to improve without measuring progress. 

How to measure student’s progress? 

1. Information about student learning can be assessed through both direct and indirect  measures. Direct measures may include homework, quizzes, exams, reports, essays,  research projects, case study analysis, and rubrics for oral and other performances. 

2. Examples of indirect measures include course evaluations, student surveys, course  enrolment information, retention in the major, alumni surveys, and graduate school  placement rates.  

Approaches to measuring students learning: 

Methods of measuring student learning are often characterized as summative or formative  assessments:  

1.  Summative assessments – tests, quizzes, and other graded course activities that are  used to measure student performance. They are cumulative and often reveal what  students have learned at the end of a unit or the end of a course. Within a course,  summative assessment includes the system for calculating individual student grades.  

2. Formative assessment – any means by which students receive input and guiding  feedback on their relative performance to help them improve. It can be provided  face-to-face in office hours, in written comments on assignments, through rubrics,  and through emails.

Considerations for Measuring Student Learning 

As you develop methods for assessing your students consider: 

1. including indirect and direct assessments as well as formative and summative  assessments 

2. evaluating whether or not the assessment aligns directly with a learning outcome 

3. ensuring the measurement is sustainable and reasonable in terms of time and  resources, both for the students and the instructors (e.g., grading, response time,  and methods) 

4. using the results of the assessments to improve the course. Examples include  revising course content in terms of depth vs. breadth, realignment between goals  and teaching methods, employment of more appropriate assessment methods. 

References: 

1. Definition –
https://theeducationhub.org.nz/category/school-resources/measuring progress/#:~:text=Measuring%20progress%20refers%20to%20monitoring,over%20a %20period%20of%20time. 

2. How to measure students’ progress?
https://teaching.cornell.edu/teaching resources/assessment-evaluation/measuring-student-learning 

3. Approaches to measuring student learning
https://teaching.cornell.edu/teaching resources/assessment-evaluation/measuring-student-learning 

4. Considerations for measuring students learning  
https://teaching.cornell.edu/teaching-resources/assessment-evaluation/measuring student-learning

Conclusion: 

1. Measuring progress helps student to setting goals, figure out areas for improvement  and areas of achievement, tracking improvement. 

2. The student’s progress is measured in the areas such as: Weak Area, Strong Area,  Good Area, Average Area, Fastest Area, and Slowest Area. 

3. Weak Area: It indicates the area where a student needs more focus.

4. Average Area: It indicates the area where a student is doing good but needs more  focus. 

5. Good Area: It indicates the area where a student is doing well. 

6. Best Area: It indicates the area where student is doing best. 

7. Fastest Area: It indicates the area where student requires less amount of time to  solve the question.

8. Slowest Area: It indicates the area where student requires more amount of time to  solve the question. 

9. With the help of this student as well as parents will know the area, where a child is  moving forward and where the child is lagging.