When you emphasize performance over grades, a test becomes a personal challenge, a chance for you to apply your knowledge and skill to new problems and tasks, an opportunity for you to discover your strengths and weaknesses. Improved performance is the goal. Grades are not a measure of self-worth. They are just a way to keep score. To track your performance on test, print out this chart and complete it or devise one of your own. For an example of how this chart should be filled out, see Figure 12.1 in your textbook.
