Training for Results: The BetterThink Way
Student Results is the most important driver in Language Prep Market. A business built on advertisements and infrastructure is never sustainable. When other competing organisations in IELTS, PTE & Spoken English market are focussed on fancy Infrastructure and more above and below the line presence, BetterThink clearly led the way with an unwavering focus on excellence in Academics and Operations. It became the leader in Results by harvesting its technology strength and research on pedagogy to design a methodology that assures results to any student who follows the methodology sincerely and fully. We are outlining the unique features of the methodology which derives its power from integration of all student, teacher and centre resources and brings it on the palm of the student through BetterThink Mobile App.
Structured Pre-defined Lectures:
BetterThink structures the lecture through a loose outline of the concept model brought to the classroom through Lecture Slides. A group of veteran Language Trainers with decades of experience in classroom defines clear objectives for each lesson and draws a complete lecture plan. The lecture plan is beamed into the classroom as lecture slides, which outlines the contours of the discussion but at the same time allows the teacher to exercise his or her style in explaining it. This results in mixing of the expertise of BetterThink Academic Research team with the unique art of the teacher in classroom to deliver a power packed lecture.
Testing for Improvement:
Test, Analyse, Improve, Test… This cycle is a religion at BetterThink centres and one of the prime influencers in student progress. Every test is followed by a deep analysis of the student weaknesses and strengths. At every stage it is predicted what the student with his current ability would score in the actual test and sophisticated data science applications help outline clear steps to success for the student as well as the teacher. Every test helps the teacher to plan his next session and the powerful analytic engines help him take best decisions at all time for student learning.
Eliminating Subjectivity:
Subjectivity in Evaluation of Writing and Speaking tasks,otherwise a great weak link for the entire industry, has become BetterThink’s unique strength. It replicates official scoring method by developing a very simple to use scoring rubric completely aligned to official scoring rubrics. This not only reduces subjectivity in checking writing and speaking tasks but also helps the system understand the sub skill level performance to pinpoint remedial action for the student and the teacher.
Automated Remedial Action:
A comprehensive item bank tagged to sub skill level enables system to give targeted practice to the students for continuous self improvement; thus driving results. Teachers also get actionable reports which group students by their remedial needs. All this ensures that with every test the student is inching towards his desired score.
Integration of Courseware:
All this would never have been possible if the lectures slides through which a student is taught is not aligned to the lecture objectives defined for exam success. The tests are in turn aligned to the lectures to make sure students are tested on what they learned. All remedial resources are in turn aligned to the tests to make practice on them produce significant impact on subsequent test performance. The books are aligned to the lecture objectives as well as the remedial resources to give students a complete practice. The companion tests in the books are aligned to the book exercises to give students a clear understanding on how well they have mastered the concepts of the book. This complete integration of resources is what really makes a student successful through BetterThink methodology.
So BetterThink doesn’t practise the industry norm where books are from one source, tests from other and remedial resources, if at all they exist, are randomly sourced. BetterThink designs every element of the courseware on its own working closely with internationally renowned trainers and Publishers to ensure that all components of the course are well knitted to one another.
