How to Make a Progress Chart
A progress chart is a motivational and assessment tool that can be used for everything from potty training to company manufacturing. Creating a progress chart enables you to track your development over time in a manner that is visual and easy to understand. A progress chart can be a line graph, a bar graph, a spreadsheet, or any other format that enables you to distill information about the process whose progress you are measuring and to assemble the data in a clear and concise format.
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Instructions
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Label the top of your progress chart with the variable that you are measuring, such as "Mike's Potty Training" or "Weekly Widget Output."
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Use the vertical axis of your progress chart to list the units of measurement that the chart will track. For a potty training progress chart, this could be the number of successful trips to the toilet on any given day; for a manufacturing company, this could be the number of widgets manufactured during a given period of time.
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Use the horizontal axis of your progress chart to indicate the time period over which you are measuring progress. For a potty training chart, you might want to measure progress by the day in order to accommodate a toddler's short attention span; for a manufacturing company, you might want to track the units manufactured by the week or the month.
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Choose whether you will create a bar graph or a line graph. A bar graph emphasizes quantities by drawing thick columns to represent each number individually. A line graph shows relationships between numbers by plotting each data point and then connecting the dots.
If you are making a bar graph, plot the points of the information you are tracking on your progress chart, and draw thick lines or columns connecting each point to the horizontal axis. If you are making a line graph, plot the points and drawing thin lines to connect them.
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