The background
The baseline results
The intervention
The improvements
Instead, by implementing Reflective Learning, the 2021 cohort was able to improve nonetheless. This is shown in the right-hand graph which tracks the 2021 Grade 10 cohort over two years. In their Grade 9 year, the group did not improve over the course of the year. However, through 2021 their year-end average improved by 18%.
Doing a similar analysis for the 2021 Grade 11 cohort, the picture is similar. While the cohort started behind the 2020 cohort (49% vs 58%) and ended ahead of it (55% vs 47%), the two-year tracking shows something interesting. Over the course of 2020, the Covid-19 impact was far greater, with grade-level marks decreasing from 72% to 35%. However, by working on Reflective Learning, learners were able to arrest this decline and see marks start to improve in 2021 (starting at 49% in Term 1 and finishing the year at 55% in Term 4). This demonstrates the ability of Reflective Learning’s catch-up tool to tackle and reverse the effects of Covid-19 on learning loss.
When considering that learners are only approximately 20% through the catch-up process, one would expect there to be further improvements as they have more opportunities to interact with the programme.
