Process Improvement in Education

Facility:
Large inner city public Elementary School in a major metropolitan area.

Project:
Determination of best instructional approach to improve math scores in a Title I school.

Project Summary:
This was a ten month project to determine the instructional approach and teaching philosophy that would produce the most optimal student performance improvements in math in a school with a poor overall score on mandatory state achievement tests. The project employed staff interviews and teacher focus group discussions to determine viable approaches to be tested, the design and creation of an assessment tool that would be used to measure student improvement within the student test groups, data collection, and comparative analysis of the student performance data. The project resulted in the identification of the approach that yielded significantly higher performance scores ( class average - 116%; highest individual improvement - 343%) and was recommended for adoption school-wide.