IHETC School
How real progress is measured
A stage is cleared on assessed work, never on time spent. Here are the four stages, the three indicators that accompany them, and the alert that fires the day progress stops.
What “progress” means here
A stage is cleared on assessed work. It is the only definition that survives daily use: a pupil can spend three hours in front of a screen clearing nothing, and twenty minutes clearing one. The shape below draws those four stages, in the order they are cleared — it is the product's validation rule, and it applies to every subject covered.
- 1Concept revisited and restated by the pupil
- 2Guided exercise completed unaided
- 3New exercise completed alone
- 4Work assessed by a teacher
Three indicators, and why these
The concept holds over time
A concept passed today is re-offered a few weeks later, unannounced. That second pass is what decides.
It transfers
The pupil reuses it in a situation never seen before. The test that separates understanding from memorisation.
The time is real
The counter measures work, not connection. An app left open for two hours stays at zero.
The indicators we have chosen
We kept indicators that are dull and useful: where your child stands, what they are working on, and since when. They share a rare property — they stay true when nobody is watching. The tracking therefore reads like a logbook rather than a scoreboard: each line states a dated fact, and that is what makes comparison possible two months later. A pupil progresses for what they can do, and the tracking measures exactly that, with no ranking between children and no points to collect.
- Dated facts: what was cleared, and on which day
- A state per topic: secure, fragile, still to cover
- Actual working time, session by session
- The comparison with the written assessment from the start
The disengagement alert
It fires on a halt in progress: several days without advancing, or one topic retried three times in a row. That is the signal preceding real disengagement, often by weeks, and precisely the one a termly report card arrives too late to give. The alert goes out the same day, names the subject and the topic, and proposes a short catch-up rather than a general overhaul.