Improving Board Results by creating evidence

We had the ‘hunch’ that personalised feedback would help students identify areas of weakness and thus improve results.

We wanted to get this ‘hunch’ tested. So, in November, 2015, we decided to

undertake an experiment in which some of our students got personalized feedback (Treatment Group), others did not (Control Group).

We wanted to measure the difference in results between the two, and if beneficial, adopt it this year for all our students.

Improving Board results by creating our own evidence

Treatment Group: How it worked

SUBJECT-WISE / CLASSROOM MOCKS COLOR-CODED TOPICWISE STRENGTHS

& WEAKNESSES TIPS TO CONVERT WEAKNESSES TO

STRENGTHS PERSONALISED REPORTS TOPIC FOCUSED SMART STUDY PLANS

IMPACT OF TARGET PLUS

ON THE BOARD RESULTS

OF OUR STUDENTS

SAVE TIME & STUDY SMARTER, NOT JUST HARDER

Target Plus was introduced in GNII and three

other branches of CMS around Pre-Boards

In our first batch of ICSE in 2014-15, we had

not taken up Target Plus exam.

In this batch of ICSE, we had 95 students.

Out of these 29 had got marks 90% and

above.

The lowest percentage was 72%.

In 2015-16, 108 students appeared in

ICSE. After taking up Target Plus Exam in

November 2015, there was a marked

improvement.

Students getting 90 % and above

increased from 29 in 2014-15 to 43 in

2015-16.

The lowest aggregate also rose up from

72 % in 2014-15 to 78 % in 2015-16.

In 2015-16 we had only Maths and Science

papers conducted by target plus therefore

there was a marked improvement in

Maths and Science marks of students.

Of the 92 students who sat mathematics, 69 took TARGETplus, 23 did not.

While 33% of TARGETplus group received marks above 90%, only 5% of the non-TARGETplus group did so.

The 69 TARGETplus students and the 23 non-TARGETplus were spread across the different percentile groups within the class. (Chart A)

Difference in difference analysis showed gain was significant in all percentile groups except for the top, but then there was just one student who was non-TARGETplus in this group, the remaining 15 had taken TARGETplus.

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Difference in Marks# Students ControlDifference in Marks

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MEDIAN (T) MEDIAN (T) MEDIAN (C)MEDIAN (C)

DIFF OF DIFF EDIFF-BDIFF 4.50 6.00 0.90 3.00 -1.00

EFFECT SIZE EDIFF-BDIFF 0.31 0.37 0.06 0.20 -0.08

RESULTS

SHILPI VERMA II COMP I PRE

BOARDII PRE BOARD

BOARD

MATHS 15 % 20 % 16 % 52 %SCIENCE 39 % 27 % 14 % 46 %

II COMP I PRE BOARD

II PRE BOARD

BOARD0

0.51

1.52

2.53

3.54

4.55

MATHS SCIEMCE

II COMP I PRE BOARD

II PRE BOARD

BOARD0

0.51

1.52

2.53

3.54

4.5

MATHSSCIENCE

ACHINTYA VEER SINGH II COMP I PRE

BOARDII PRE BOARD

BOARD

MATHS 91 % 96 % 92 % 99 %SCIENCE 93 % 94 % 93 % 97 %

II COMP I PRE BOARD

II PRE BOARD

BOARD 0

0.51

1.52

2.53

3.54

4.5

MATHS SCIENCE

AYUSH SRIVASTAVA II COMP I PRE

BOARDII PRE BOARD

BOARD

MATHS 49 % 62 % 69 % 94 %SCIENCE 79 % 79 % 87 % 95 %

SHIVAM SINGH II COMP I PRE

BOARDII PRE BOARD

BOARD

MATHS 91 % 96 % 92 % 99 %SCIENCE 93 % 94 % 93 % 97 %

II COMP I PRE BOARD

II PRE BOARD

BOARD0

0.51

1.52

2.53

3.54

4.5

MATHSSCIENCE

PERSONAL DISGNOSIS & SMART

STUDY PLAN

Each student was provided with individual

detailed analysis of their performance which

helped them to improve their performance

even more.

Not only for students, Target PLUS is a ready tool for

the teachers who can access the mock papers and

create their own diagnostic mocks and generate

smart plans in an instant. They can monitor the

mocks in both online and paper & pencil formats. It

makes a teacher's life so much easier.

SCHOOLS

Teacher reports are diagnostic overview of the entire class by topic and sub-topic. A teacher knows exactly where the strengths and weaknesses of a class lie. Teachers save time by teaching backwards those topics that are easy for a class and giving maximum time to those topics that are difficult for the entire class. Though they already often know which students are weak or strong, they are always happy to get the class report that shows them, objectively, where they need to focus more and in each topic which students are struggling more.

Teacher Reports

TEACHER REPORTS

Teachers were provided with guidelines

through colour bands, wherein they were able

to understand in what aspects the children are

doing well and where they need to re-teach a

topic to build up the concept.

Evidence Matters.

This year, we have made TARGETplus compulsory for

all our students and we started off earlier than last

year. We are confident of even

better results.