Why secondary schools love CENTURY

We spoke to our secondary schools and compiled the top reasons why they love CENTURY:

1. Support for independent learning

Secondary schools like how CENTURY empowers students to take ownership of their learning. The AI recommendations help students identify areas to improve, encouraging self-paced study. 

• “The students like and respond really well to CENTURY…The minute they log in to CENTURY, they have their own personalised area with strengths and areas to improve.” – Northampton School for Girls

2. Adaptability and Versatility

Schools can assign learners a diagnostic assessment at the start of a unit. The diagnostic will identify any areas for improvement and personalise learners’ Recommended Paths, meaning each time they log in to CENTURY they are completing work that is adapted to their needs. 

CENTURY is useful in various teaching scenarios, from homework assignments to in-class activities and even cover lessons when regular teachers were unavailable. 

• “One of the ways we have been able to achieve the right balance in the midst of this disruption, is by using CENTURY. Because the technology is so responsive, we have been able to simultaneously differentiate learning for large numbers of students.” – Matthew Moss High School

3. Closing Learning Gaps

The personalised pathways are particularly beneficial for students with learning gaps from previous stages. CENTURY helps them revisit foundational topics and close learning gaps. Alternatively teachers can assign nuggets to specific students, ensuring that learners at different levels receive the support they need.

• “The English team said…when the students encounter things they should have known from primary school and are really struggling, they can go to the appropriate nuggets that can fill those primary gaps.” – Icknield Community College

4. Effective Implementation and Ongoing Support

Our Customer Success team is key for the successful onboarding and training of our schools. Having dedicated Account Managers and ‘CENTURY Champions’ within schools helps maintain consistency in implementation and increased engagement across departments.

• “The support has also been great. Whenever we have had any issues, the team has been very responsive and quick to resolve them. It’s really helpful having an Account Manager who directly handles our account, and she has been really effective at helping us to figure out both what we want to ultimately achieve with the platform and how we can get to where we want to be with it.” – Rutlish School

5. Feedback and Data-driven Insights

Teachers across schools, including Lampton and Rutlish, value CENTURY’s data-driven approach, which allows them to quickly identify students’ strengths and areas that need improvement. Real-time data makes it easier for teachers to address learning gaps promptly, track progress, and adjust their teaching strategies accordingly.

• “Some would race through the questions, spending two or three seconds on each. Once I told them I could see how much time they were spending on each question, they decided to spend a bit more time on each, and now they have started to realise that CENTURY is helping.” – Lampton School 

6. Benchmarking Data Reports

CENTURY’s benchmarking data can prove enormously useful in understanding where your class is compared to the national average. Taryn Davison, a former teacher and member of our Customer Success team, evidenced how she used the benchmarking data to inform her teaching during her ‘Confessions of a CENTURY Teacher’ blog series. 

• “This data helped me both to pitch my lessons accordingly and to track progress in the topic they’d studied previously as well as overall in the mathematics courses, allowing me to see how the class compared to the average school… Benchmarking data was crucial for tracking progress during my unit of teaching. It allowed for detailed analysis, showing how students improved on specific nuggets and what those scores represented.” – Taryn Davison, former teacher now working for CENTURY

If you’d like to learn more about how to embed CENTURY in your secondary school, click here. Book a demo of the platform here. If you’re already a CENTURY customer and want to learn more about any of these points, including benchmarking reports, speak to your Account Manager.