Self Evaluation Stepping Stone To Success

Have you evaluated yourself? If you haven’t, probably, you are miles away from the success path. The life of students is evaluated at different levels and by different sets of individuals. Whether it is teachers or counselors, students are continuously evaluated.

How Self Evaluation is Important

• Self-evaluation gives students a seamlessly practical way of examining the inner self.
• When students self-evaluate, they begin to know about themselves from a totally unbiased perspective.
• Real time analysis of actions can be taken into consideration, if the individual starts evaluating correctly.
• New personality traits come to be known about which students were hardly aware.
• Self-evaluation leads to building self-confidence and this is very important in writing success.
• When one self-evaluates, he/she becomes aware about his weaknesses and strengths. In this way, he/she can plan the future course of action and try removing the weaknesses.

Self-Evaluation Removes Prejudices

While in school, students are evaluated at regular intervals of time by their teachers. The fact that hovers around here is that students do not know or have any idea on basic aspects of self-evaluation. It is therefore important for the teachers and others professionals associated with students to make them learn about self-evaluation methodologies. Once students become acquainted with self-evaluation, they will:

• The role of students is transformed from passive observer to an active contributor.
• Students begin to look into themselves without any room for prejudices and bias. They will begin to understand what is good or bad for them under a particular set of conditions.
• Students will react and make decisions on their own. These decisions are mature enough to lead them to a successful path.
• Through the process of self-evaluation, students will be able to justify their actions and start leading meaningful lives.

How Students should be trained for Self-Evaluation

There are different ways by which students can be trained for self-evaluation:

• Assignment Levels : Here the teacher will ask students to complete certain types of assignments and later make the assessment of them to know the difficulties experienced and understanding developed in a particular area.
• Personal Levels : The teacher will judge the actions and reactions of students by posing peculiar questions. These questions help in knowing how the students estimate themselves.
• Psycho-Analytic Levels : A detailed psycho analysis is done to understand how and what actions and reactions are shown in a particular set of conditions.

Self-evaluation is a slow and gradual process and results should not be expected in one day.