Students Tracking Their Own Data? 5 Reasons Why It is So Amazing!
Students tracking their own data? Have you heard of this idea? It is actually quite amazing. You all know how difficult it can be to keep up with data collection, in fact, at time it feels downright impossible. When you have to track multiple goals and short term objectives on many students, it is super time consuming and can get overwhelming. It doesn’t take much to get completely behind.
If you can relate and you struggle to keep up with data collection when it comes to tracking progress for your students, why not encourage the students themselves to help with data collection?
5 Reasons Why Students Should Track Their Own Data
Here are 5 reasons why student-generated data collection is beneficial:
- students learn to take ownership of their own progress and set appropriate goals.
- motivational levels may increase when students organize and collect the data.
- students learn to organize information and graphically represent the information.
- data collection becomes part of the routine to make it more efficient.
- teachers and therapists get help with data collection to indicate goal attainment.
Get Started Today
Why not get students tracking their own data? By having the student’s track their own progress, it creates ownership of goal achievement. The graphic representation of the students’ progress can be highly motivating. If improvements are not achieved, students can reflect on what changes need to be made to the intervention plan. The biggest benefit of all – one less data collection form for you to fill out!
Not sure how to get started with student generated data collection? Check out the video below to get more information on student generated data collection using My Goal Tracker.
This is an electronic book of data collection forms for students to track their own progress. The student can track his/her goals over time, by monitoring the skills over the course of a day, week, month or quarter. This allows the student to get a visual picture of improvement, decline or maintenance of different skills. Get started with students tracking their own data today!
