7.3 Learning Progress

Provide students with opportunities to track their learning progress.

Examples include formative learning activities such as drafts for writing assignments, self-scoring practice quizzes.

Points: 2 (Very Important)

QM Alignment: 3.5

Overview

When instructors provide feedback that improves student performance, students gain confidence, engage in their own learning process, and meet expectations and standards. See also standard 6.2 concerning formative assessments.

How does your feedback help students?

Does your feedback aid students in tracking their learning progress by

• Meeting Student Learning Level: Knowledge & Skills
• Improving Comprehension, Skill Master, and the Learning Process Mastery
• Establishing Clear Expectations & Standards
• Promoting Independent Learning: Self and Peer
• Providing Summative Assessment of the Assignment and the Process

Ways to Meet Standard 7.3

• Provide students with opportunities to track their learning progress.
• Formative learning activities
• Drafts for writing assignments
• Self-scoring practice quizzes.

How do you track student learning progress?​

Examples

Examples of Learning Progress

• Gradebook
• SpeedGrader: Rubric and File Annotations
• Assignment comments

Resources

• Canvas
  • Gradebook
  • SpeedGrader
• More about instructional scaffolding (from standard 4.7):
  • Scaffolding chapter from Instructional Methods, Strategies, Math and Technology to Meet the Needs of All Learners
  • Scaffolding as a RoadMap: Guiding and Supporting Student Learning
  • Instructors’ conceptualization and implementation of scaffolding in online higher education courses