Case Studies
HOW PERFORMANCE LEARNING ENABLED BRIGHTON HILL COMMUNITY School TO MEASURE THE IMPACT THEY HAD ON LEARNERS’ MENTAL HEALTH
Over the last decade, mental health problems and challenges have been on the rise, and COVID-19 has made the situation even worse. This alarming increase in mental health issues has created a need for additional efforts from schools, teachers, and parents to help pupils deal with this critical issue.
MEASURING IMPACT
While some schools put efforts and funds into various resources such as extra staff, extracurricular activities, and other assets to help students deal with mental health challenges, they often struggle to measure the impact that these efforts have on their learners. Eventually, these resources can often dry up due to their investment-only nature as there is no fixed method to measure the return on investment (ROI).
On the one hand, schools measure the academic intelligence of students through tests and exams. On the other hand, when it comes to measuring the impact of efforts on mental health and wellbeing, most schools fail as they do not have a system that can provide numbers, statistics, and data after analysing students’ mental health and wellbeing.
HOW Performance Learning helps
Looking for a solution to the need for a system that can provide data on mental health and wellbeing, we developed an AI-based solution called Performance Learning (PL).
Having just a single PL score took over a year to create, for us this was key so that we could have just one single number that standardizes progress, standardizes mental health, and simplifies things for schools and learners. When used in schools like Brighton Hill Community School, the results were remarkable.
Chris Edwards, head teacher at Brighton Hill Community School says:
“It is difficult to put a number on the areas like mental health, the progress, etc. but to be able to do that is really helpful for us as it was not tangible to say that how much changes or impact the school has made on the students and now they have the PL scores that allows them to do that and it is really a valuable thing”.
Chris Edwards
Headteacher at Brighton Hill Community School says:
“It is difficult to put a number on the areas like mental health, the progress, etc. but to be able to do that is really helpful for us as it was not tangible to say that how much changes or impact the school has made on the students and now they have the PL scores that allows them to do that and it is really a valuable thing”.
Pete Beeching
Lead Practitioner and Senior Leader, Brighton Hill Community School says:
The PL score is very important for us because it is a one stop shop for senior leaders, the middle leaders to find out who the key players in the year group are. It helps us identify exactly where the issue lies within the learning journey of a learner.
Enabling them to identify early how to best support every learner
Using PL and the PLOA Assessment enabled the school to early identify areas where a learner needed support, areas that otherwise may not have been identified. The school and students liked the PLOA interface and that the questions are non-threatening. Together this produced a very valuable set of data whereby the school could drill down to individuals and look at where the individual barriers are. This approach fitted in really well with the student support packages that they have in place as PL is all about removing barriers to learning.
HOW Performance Learning supports school staff
PL helps teachers understand their pupils’ performance based on their behaviour in the classroom, helps them understand how their students learn, and helps them make personalised action plans for each learner. All through the simple, easy-to-interpret PLOA assessment results, pdf reporting and data dashboard.
analyse the impact
This is how Chris and his school was able to analyse the impact that they had on their pupils’ mental health by simply looking at the data that PL provided them with. This data helped them make a personalised action plan for their students and keep an eye on the wellbeing of their students.
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