Definition of academic performance

Assessment that allows to measure the knowledge learned by the students

The Performance Academic is a concept that is used in a way excluding in the educational field to refer to the evaluation that in the various institutions educational and at the corresponding levels, primary, secondary, university, is carried out by the qualified professionals to precisely evaluate the knowledge learned by the students.

It will be considered that a student will have a good academic performance when, after the evaluations to which he is subjected throughout the course in question, his grades are good and satisfactory. On the contrary, we will be talking about a bad or low academic performance of a student when the grades that he obtains after the exams do not reach the minimum level of approval.

Your goal: to confirm successful student learning

Then, the main task of academic performance will be to know if students learned in accordance with the contents that were taught. Now, we must emphasize that performance will not only tell us about the abilities that the student presents and that allow them to understand what their teachers teach will also give us a complete idea of ​​the predisposition that students present with respect to stimuli educational.

Factors influencing educational performance

Meanwhile, in this performance, whether good or bad, many issues influence and influence it is not only about attending in class and learn the lesson to pass the test well and voila, but there are many factors that not only have to do with studying to have a good or bad performance in this regard.
Among them we can cite the complexity of the subject, a teacher with little pedagogical ability, demanding of many subjects at the same time, disinterest and distractions on the part of the student, poor class attendance due to personal problems, among the main issues.

The goal of academic performance is to achieve an objective and concrete measure of the performance of each student, the objective is not to place grades capricious or dissonant, what is fundamentally wanted through this evaluation tool is to know for sure if the student learned in a manner consistent with the contents, because it will be these that will allow the student tomorrow to perform satisfactorily in the context to be.

It should not be taken as an indicator of intelligence. It only measures the knowledge learned

And finally we cannot avoid that academic performance is not a measure of intelligence that someone holds. Because there kids very capable and intelligent who suddenly suffer from an attention disorder and this could directly affect their academic performance but it is not a sign of lack of intelligence, far from it.