Impact of Liverpool City Region’s CENTURY pilot
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Ensuring all children have access to a top-tier education is a cornerstone of CENTURY Tech’s vision, which is why we were thrilled to partner with Liverpool City Region to facilitate Mayor Steve Rotheram’s desire to improve outcomes for all in Liverpool. Mayor Rotheram’s drive to eradicate education inequality extends to giving the children of Liverpool access to “cutting edge AI technology … to raise standards across the region and give local children access to opportunities usually enjoyed by elite private school students.”
The pilot programme involved over 40 schools gaining comprehensive access to the platform to experience first hand the power of AI to personalise learning and empower teachers with actionable intervention data. Schools were supported by one of our dedicated pilot managers who was able to guide them through the onboarding process and ensured they had the full CENTURY experience.
Over 4,000 students actively engaged with CENTURY between 30th September and 18th December, completing over 80,000 nuggets (micro-lessons) and answering over a million questions. Students showed an incredible average improvement of 10% between their first and second attempt at a nugget, demonstrating tangible learning gains in a short timeframe.
Image showing nugget (micro-lesson) improvement scores for English, maths and science on CENTURY
Teachers set over 1,200 assignments, freeing up approximately 1,800 hours – an average of over 9 1⁄2 hours’ time saved per teacher, which can instead be spent focussing on improving student outcomes. CENTURY’s data insights were accessed nearly 24,000 times, allowing teachers to tailor their lessons to the needs of the whole class.
A survey completed by participating teachers was overwhelmingly positive, with 100% of respondents saying they would like to continue using CENTURY. Reactions were also extremely enthusiastic with all participants either strongly agreeing or agreeing that:
- The learning resources on CENTURY were high quality, effective and personalised to the learner
- Students were engaged while using CENTURY
- CENTURY helped support our learners to progress
- CENTURY reduced teacher workload and provided actionable insights
Quotes
“What can we say – it’s just a no-brainer! An amazing package, unbelievably personalised to our students and has highlighted the huge benefits to all our children, and especially our children with SEND. WE LOVE IT!”
Peter Chapman – Head of St George’s Primary School
“Our parents and pupils LOVE CENTURY! We’ve had huge levels of engagement, including from some previously difficult to reach families. We love the platform and would love to keep using it as it’s having a huge impact on children’s recall of prior knowledge.”
Matt Power – Shoreside Primary School
“The assessment information that [CENTURY] provides to staff immediately is invaluable and enables them to plan subsequent work for children to continue to progress.”
Vicky Corbett – Mosspits Lane Primary School
If you’d like more information about how to pilot the CENTURY platform, click here
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