Volume 9 : Issue 1 (2022)

Measurement Estimation Skills among Students

Everything cannot be predicted nor can every situation to be encountered can be known and sorted beforehand. When pre-planned strategies prove to be ineffective and regular mode equipment shows failure in its efficiency, where measurement and its tools have a negligible scope, then it is measurement estimation that takes the lead role. Measurement estimation skill has a significant role in critical situations as well as in normal conditions. It is a decision-making process where the stimulus and our sensory organs and above all our brain are the key players in the whole process. However, though this skill demands flexibility and is highly probable for spot decision through perfect strategy still competency is the fundamental pillar of any skill. For competency, training of students especially in school through different curricular and co-curricular activities is highly significant. This paper gives an overview of measurement estimation as a skill and suggests some significant steps that can be of great help in inculcating and enhancing this skill through curricular and co-curricular activities. Moreover, this skill demands more attention from the academicians as students generally are found to be less friendly with actual process understanding of any problem and are acquainted mainly with formulas highly focussed on the product rather than the process.

Measurement Estimation, Skill, Decision Making Process, Curriculum

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