Tracking Student Progress

Tracking Student Progress

What are some ways to track student keyboarding progress?

  • Periodically retest students on high-frequency words to see how their speed and accuracy are improving.
  • Try putting high-frequency words in as created lessons in KBK so that the program will grade the timings for you.
  • Let students work with you to set their own keyboarding goals.
  • Remind students what their individual keyboarding goals are. Keep them updated on their progress toward goals by print goal sheets:  Download Goals for keyboarding.pdf
  • Track class progress for school motivation.
  • If a student reaches their goal early, adjust it!

 

Checkered FlagStudent Motivation

To help motivate students, report class keyboarding progress as a school. Each elementary school in Canyons District received materials to build a keyboarding racetrack bulletin board. (Ask your Ed Tech if you're not sure where yours is located.) Use the bulletin board to gamify keyboarding instruction by:

  • Using the car cutouts to represent classes.
  • Move the cars along the racetrack to show progress toward specific class keyboarding goals:
    • Perfect technique moves cars halfway around the track.
    • Speed and accuracy move the cars around the second half of the track.
    • Move each car around the track based on what percentage of the class has met their goals.
    • OR move each car to certain points on the track that are labeled with technique and speed markers.
    • Award praise, prizes, or incentives to classes as they complete the race.

 This is one example of how your race track could be set up:

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Oakdale Elementary decided to create a pirate map to track student keyboarding progress to match their school's theme for the year:

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Oakdale's plan for tracking student progress includes:

  • Set 8 keyboarding goals for classes to achieve in order:
    • Perfect Posture
      • Feet placed for balance
      • Body centered to the ‘h’ key with elbows at sides
      • Sit up straight
    • Perfect Hand Position
      • Curve fingers over the home row keys
      • Wrists off the keyboard
    • Perfect Fingering
      • Eyes on the printed copy
      • Keys by touch with correct fingering
      • Keys with a smooth rhythm
    • Perfect Technique (all of the above put together)
    • 10 WPM with 3 or fewer errors
    • 15 WPM with 3 or fewer errors
    • 20 WPM with 3 or fewer errors
    • 25 WPM with 2 or fewer errors
  • Once a month their pirate ships are moved along the map to show class progress. Ships are moved once 85% of the entire class has reached the next goal. This way, individual students are not singled out. Rather, it is a class-wide goal to help everyone achieve.
  • Prizes worth pennies are awarded for classes as they reach certain points on the map.

 

Draper Elementary used an adventure theme to track their keyboarding progress:

Draper Keyboarding Adventure

They also celebrate students who meet their goals in KBK:

KBK Certificates

 

Work with the grade 3-5 teachers in your school to develop a plan for setting goals and tracking student progress that will work best for you!