We study super weakly compact operators through a quantitative method. We introduce a semi-norm
$\sigma (T)$
of an operator
$T:X\to Y$
, where X, Y are Banach spaces, the so-called measure of super weak noncompactness, which measures how far T is from the family of super weakly compact operators. We study the equivalence of the measure
$\sigma (T)$
and the super weak essential norm of T. We prove that Y has the super weakly compact approximation property if and and only if these two semi-norms are equivalent. As an application, we construct an example to show that the measures of T and its dual
$T^*$
are not always equivalent. In addition we give some sequence spaces as examples of Banach spaces having the super weakly compact approximation property.