How to Track Student Progress
August 27, 2024 2026-01-06 20:04How to Track Student Progress
How to Track Student Progress
Performance Indicators for Tutors
How to track your student progress is a pressing question for many tutoring companies. As with measuring your tutor performance this will be a combination of measurable milestones, work product and tutor assessments.
Pick a tutoring management platform such as TutorFirst that can do this for you!
Track Student Progress with Assessment Tests
Before tracking student progress it’s essential to know where they are when they start! That is to say, measuring their current knowledge is vital in tracking improvements.
Therefore, administering a pre-test before starting is advisable. This will then allow you to create a learning plan for the student’s gaps in knowledge. Helpfully, TutorFirst will do this automatically for you based on the questions the student got wrong.
Then when tutoring is complete your student takes a post-test and you will be able to track student progress. Consider measuring:
- Score gain
- Percentage gain
- Grade Equivalency gain
Mini Quizzes to Track Student Progress
During tutoring your tutors can give ‘pop’ quizzes to measure understanding of the day’s subject matter.
Daily quizzes don’t have to be large and ominous. For example, one problem or 4 short questions will suffice to track tutoring progress..
Pick a platform such as TutorFirst, where the results can be recorded immediately by your tutor and form part of the student progress record.
Progress Reports
Finally, all your measurements and tutors observations and tests must be easy to produce. That is to say producing a progress report for your student must be simple. This will put all data for tracking student progress into one place.
Choose a platform such as TutorFirst where notes, observations and results are collated into a simple report for each student. Furthermore, circulating this report directly from your software is paramount.
For example, emailing the report directly to a parent, teacher or school district must be a couple of clicks.
Using a combination of assessments, pop quizzes and tutoring reports, you can track student progress.
As a result actual student gains can be measured and circulated to interested parties. Furthermore, you can calculate an average student gain across your company and use this data in your marketing materials.
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