progress chart

Visual goal tracker

A progress chart is a visual display tracking advancement toward a goal over time.

It might show a student's reading milestones, a project's completion stages, or a fundraiser's approach to its target.

The format varies—bar graphs, checklists, thermometer-style displays—but the purpose is always to make incremental gains visible: The classroom progress chart showed each child's star count.

Opposites
tracking orientation

progress chartto-do list

Pending tasks, itemized

task list · backlog · action items · project scope · wish list

temporal focus

progress chartproject plan

Structured approach to completion

roadmap

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G