Process Improvement in Education

Facility:
Private suburban k-8 school.

Project:
Improve student retention of academic knowledge at the classroom level.

Project Summary:
The project was undertaken by a single teacher who wished to improve student retention of material yet increase the rigor of the World Geography curriculum. It was executed over two years, and involved testing 25% of the students for retention of material twelve months after they had completed the class. The project involved load leveling of assignments and testing rather than relying on traditional methods, and a culminating knowledge competition of the test group competing against the current year's World Geography students. The test group retained 94% of the material covered the previous year as represented by the competition questions.