Story Telling

Challenge:

I worked with some people in my locality when we heard about a disturbing news about rate of failure  among School pupil in their final exams in the college. 88% of the student failed at least in mathematics  and English We volunteered to talk to the pupils with the permission of the school administrators and  the parents of the pupils. A large percentage of the parents accepted our request.

Selection:

We Selected the Pupils into 2 categories based on their scores in comparison with their academic  records. The first categories are pupils with history of decent academic performance. While the second  categories have not been doing too well in their previous academics’ records. The two categories were  given a series of questions to answer that will felt would give us an insight into what led to the massive  failure in an exam in a school that is reputed for academic excellence hitherto.

Application:

More than 2/3 responses we got from the questionnaire we administered shows that the school in  partnership with a Firm introduced a new study tab to the students for their end of school examinations.  The Study tab was the study pack all the students used in preparation for the Examinations. The Tab was  well covered by way of syllabus but the instructional materials accompanying the Tab was too technical  for the age bracket of the student to grasp. A representative of the Firm also came to introduce the Tab  to the student, but his pattern of explanation did not pass the message across to the students.

Insight:

What further helped us to unravel the Root cause of the failure was that 15 co volunteer who graduated  from the school at different era attested to the quality of education of the school and the quality of its  product. This we felt was a valid sample size to rely on.

Approach.

We engaged the representative from the company that deployed the Tab and we collaboratively devise  a way of producing an instructional material with strong visual and Audio appeal to help the student  understand the usage of the tab better. After this exercise student pass rate for the exam improved to a  success rate of 73% ,86% and 90% in the first 3 examinations afterwards

