StudyLab Perfometric Suite

Continuous benchmarking and continuous improvement of math and science learning outcomes for countries with poorly developed education systems.

Learning outcomes of secondary school students from developing countries like Nigeria in Math and the Sciences is poor, by Nigerian standards and abysmal even by global standards. 

At scale, teachers lack the motivation, training and resources to develop high performing students. They also, along with other education sector stakeholders lack the data to make the most effective decisions with regards to curriculum and pedagogy.

What is your solution and how does it work?

StudyLab uses a problem based approach with thousands of curated exercises and problems with explanatory video feedback to tuneUp students problem solving skills and understanding of fundamental concepts in math and science. 

Using data science, we help teachers accurately profile students' knowledge and learning gaps while also benchmarking their alignment with local and international standards. 

The solution is fully offline and uses a local network within schools. It is also online and requires synchronization of data with the server from time to time. 

In-service teachers need on-site tools and support to enhance their work. With a library of well curated and categorized assessment items and video explanations, we not only help teachers easily put out well designed assessments, but also deepen their subject matter competence using the video explanations. The learning analytics are rich and powerful, and provide the teacher with nuanced reports and recommendations, essentially closing the gap between the teachers learning execution(teaching), and measuring learning outcomes. Furthermore, it helps the teacher benchmark those outcomes against similar student achievement data we gather across the nation on a termly and yearly bases.    

Machine learning helps us present graded problems effectively.  Videos help close knowledge gaps. The solution works offline, while using synchronization technology to keep the database updated. Data science helps teachers and stakeholders understand how students are learning and gives them insights on what areas each student needs help thus helping to deliver personalized learning. 

Our goal is to execute a partnership agreement and project with the National Mathematical Centre,  and the African University of Science and Technology, (both in Abuja). This project will enable us create and distribute multimedia resources to improve how teachers teach students to solve problems and how students improve their problem solving skills in math and science using questions from the National Math and Science Olympiad as a standard. This initiative will see us roll out the platform to at least 200 schools in Nigeria, targeting 1000 teachers and 40,000 students

Our vision is to scale StudyLab to 2000 schools across Nigeria and West Africa over the next 3-5 years, targeting 15,000 teachers and 300,000 students. With this growth, we will provide increasingly nuanced analytics services that give teachers and other stakeholders better insight into what is happening with their students and allow teachers learn and collaborate on effective and efficient solutions and share knowledge among themselves.

StudyLab, is accessible online. From this channel a school can configure an account and take their experience offline. Usually, a courier will send a hard disk of videos to them.

To enhance our distribution, we work with partners to distribute StudyLab licenses to low fee paying schools. Through these partners, e.g school associations, government, NGO's, development partners, we can provide StudyLab- the application, and change management services at scale.

We currently have 2300 people on our platform

850 of them consume via school accounts online and the rest signed-up online

We expect to serve 80,000 students via school accounts in 12 months and 300,000 in 3 years. 

Obi Brown serves as the CEO, he has 10 years experience in the education sector including as an EdTech consultant to the University of Jos. and is an Instructional design consultant( https://www.linkedin.com/in/obi-brown/)

 Habeeb Kolade serves as growth engineer and manages operations in Lagos. He has 5 years experience in the development sector and with Startups (https://www.linkedin.com/in/habeebkolade/)

 Tajudeen Kolawole serves as CTO, is a senior software developer and a Machine learning enthusiast ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/bamtak/)

Our product is a Software as a Service (SaaS) and the revenue model is a freemium plan. It allows potential users to self serve themselves and experience our value proposition in a safe and free environment and adopt one of the paid plans if they are satisfied.

It takes little incentive in Africa to want to be a problem solver. The only reason many people pass-up an opportunity is that the speed of change is slow ultimately high risk. Yet, we have to strive uphill to make our society just a bit better.

Getting Solve’s support especially in areas of product development and distribution, we can reach more students spread across wide regions faster with our educational solutions. With human capital, we can answer some of the tough design challenges we are facing to build resources that facilitate learning.

Distribution Challenges: We need to distribute our videos more efficiently. One of the ways to solve this is ensure video content are easily transferable. This means compressing the video sizes such that anyone anywhere can assess it with less demand for data.

Upskilling Teachers: Teachers’ are the lynchpin in a functional learning environment. Unfortunately, teachers in Africa suffer from the challenge of poor skills, and poor motivation.  This affects the rate of diffusion and levels of use of learning technology. With Solve’s help we need can find effective ways of implementing change management in client schools