Assessment that allows to measure the knowledge learned by the students
Academic Performance is a concept that is used exclusively in the educational field to refer to the evaluation that in the various educational institutions and at the corresponding levels, primary, secondary, university, is carried out by the appropriate 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 obtained 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 the 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, it will also give us a complete idea of the predisposition that students present with respect to educational stimuli.
Factors influencing educational performance
Meanwhile, in this performance, be it good or bad, many issues influence and influence it is not only about attending in class and learning the lesson to perform the test well and that's it, but there are many factors that not only have to do with study 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 capacity, 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 capricious or dissonant notes, what is fundamentally wanted through this evaluating tool is to know for sure if the student learned in a way according to the contents, because they will be the ones that will allow the student tomorrow to perform satisfactorily in whatever context.
It should not be taken as an indicator of intelligence. It only measures the knowledge learned
And finally we cannot ignore that academic performance is not a measure of someone's intelligence. Because there are very capable and intelligent children 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.
