{"id":2022,"date":"2016-12-05T19:33:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/century-dives-deep-to-track-student-performance-and-help-teachers-build-custom-curriculum.html"},"modified":"2016-12-05T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:33:42","slug":"century-dives-deep-to-track-student-performance-and-help-teachers-build-custom-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/century-dives-deep-to-track-student-performance-and-help-teachers-build-custom-curriculum.html","title":{"rendered":"CENTURY dives deep to track student performance and help teachers build custom curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When Priya Lakhani went to pick up her daughter from school one day, she asked her teacher how her daughter was doing. It was when she was walking home with her daughter that same day that she realized she wouldn\u2019t always be able to have those types of opportunities to engage with teachers.<\/p>\n

That prompted her to start a company called CENTURY, a tool that gives students a tailored educational experience and teachers a way to keep close track of a student\u2019s successes and failures \u2014 and where they need to work harder to help that child learn. The teacher side of it materializes as a dashboard that allows them to build custom curriculum for their students, while students log in for their coursework through CENTURY. The company showed off its technology on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2016.<\/p>\n

The goal is to give an overall snapshot of a student\u2019s strengths and weaknesses and help to tailor that educational experience. It\u2019s all well and good for teachers to give a broad overview to parents of how their kids are doing, but it doesn\u2019t do much good if a teacher just says \u201cshe\u2019s not doing well in math,\u201d Lakhani said. Instead, CENTURY\u2019s goal is to figure out\u00a0where<\/em> in math the student may be struggling, and swoop in and help there.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI just thought, hang on a second, what\u2019s gonna happen when she\u2019s 14?\u201d Lakhani, CEO of CENTURY said. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna be able to go to the school gate and say \u2018hey, what did\u00a0she do today?\u2019 They want to walk home alone, teachers don\u2019t\u00a0bring them out to the gate. I thought, how involved can I be? Obviously there\u2019s parent-teacher\u00a0meetings, but how do I know how she\u2019s performing every day. Then I thought about all the other facts I came across, how difficult it is for parents to be involved when they work in jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The service is essentially built around helping teachers reduce their administrative overhead, like tracking grades and figuring out where to target their efforts with individual students. For example, a teacher can dive deeply into which subjects in math a student might be struggling with, be it integration\u00a0or understanding partial fractions. And as an added benefit of that, teachers can cross-reference each other \u2014 for example, a physics teacher may collaborate with a math teacher in order to figure out the best curriculum.<\/p>\n

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From all this, CENTURY applies a series of algorithms to gauge a student\u2019s weaknesses and strengths, and then flags teachers on how they should proceed. Offloading that process to a machine would not only speed up the administrative efforts of teachers, but also help classrooms continue to scale. Teachers are already wildly overworked with large classes, and in theory it would help them be more active with their students instead of spending time on administrative work, Lakhani said.<\/p>\n

While the company is working through London, the same principles \u2014 applying machine learning to a student\u2019s profile in order to determine where to target their education \u2014 should work in any school system, Lakhani said. And the tool should be a boon not only for teachers, but also regulators who can get a more complete snapshot of how a school\u2019s students are doing.<\/p>\n

For CENTURY, there are going to be multiple challenges. The biggest one is going to be adoption \u2014 how can Lakhani convince teachers and schools that it\u2019s worth their time to implement yet another new piece of educational technology? Already, schools are inundated with startups trying to change the educational workflow, and so far there haven\u2019t been that many explosive successes. That\u2019s part of the reason why CENTURY had to be a more complete package, rather than tackling smaller versions of the problem that some apps do, Lakhani said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lots of apps out there \u2014 there\u2019s actually a lot of educational apps out there; it feels a bit fragmented,\u201d she said. \u201cI think there\u2019s some really clever apps out there, and they work really well. But the system I\u2019m talking about to address those pain points has to incorporate machine learning. It has to be a whole school solution. It\u2019s good to have something target math, but if you want to supercharge your teachers and arm them with real-time data and make that intervention, then you need to be giving them some deeper insights into the data and behavior of students. The system and platform need to be content-agnostic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, that\u2019s also going to lead to a potential pitfall for CENTURY, as going for a complete platform means there may be smaller startups that can fill the gaps and gain adoption if successful, and then grow from there. But the hope for Lakhani is that CENTURY can become a robust tool that teachers \u2014 and parents \u2014 readily flock to based on the data it continues to collect.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to learn how your brain learns,\u201d Lakhani said. \u201cIf your system is content-agnostic, we can use neuroscience and look at the motivation of the person logging in. I felt the need to build it, I looked around and what I understood was that I needed to build the system by the time my daughter is seven. If you can put literacy, math, online courses that teach life skills on there, then you have a really powerful machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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