Goal Aware Profile
How do students come to understand how well they are doing in a program? Certainly, they can look at their grades in their courses and see their GPA. Within a specific class, they know what their grade for each assignment.
But students are probably used to playing games where they see different aspects of themselves. As they play the game, they accrue more "points" in different areas throughout the game. It defines them as game players.
I think that courseware (specifically courseware with next generation assessment ideas like the Goal Aware idea built in) should allow students to see "profiles" of themselves in this manner.
Harry Tuttle:
I agree that students want to see academic profiles of themselves. Some P12 schools are modifying their report cards to show students progress toward mastery through a mastery line.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------mastery of 1.1
------------------------------------------------ (present progress)
The issue with a student progress number is that unless that number relates to an absolute (Mastery equals 2,000) than that number has no meaning. For example, a student score of 1,000 may seem high until it is compared to the mastery level of 2,000.