1. Executive Summary
“As a staffing firm, TeamLease sadly doesn’t hire 95% of the youngsters who come to it for a
job. As a training firm, it estimates that 40% of these job-interview rejects need more than a year
of “repair” or “preparation” to make them truly job-ready.”
.......Manish Sabharwal, Chairman,TeamLease 1
AGEM addresses such voids which represent the gap between what
is taught in schools and what is required in the workplace through de-
veloping three vital real-world skills in secondary school students in the
developing world.
• Inference: Students learn to apply what they have learned to new
circumstances
• Decision making: Students develop decision making ability even
when data is uncertain and decision making is complex. This is
expected of every competent adult but is rarely taught.
• Participative decision making: Students learn how to work together
in teams to evolve a decision through understanding each others
point of view. This is a necessary requirement in the workplace.
AGEM’s carefully structured content containing embedded questions, is
projected on the classroom wall. Each student answers these questions
using a personal wireless device. Immediately a graphic analysis of the
response of all students is displayed. No student is identified and all re-
sults are stored. These create an expanding database which is analyzed
to guide students, teachers, the school and AGEM for improving learn-
ing performance. More than a hundred students can respond in parallel
using our personal feedback devices which need a battery change once
a year.
The outcomes include engaged students, happier teachers, scientific
measurement and reporting. No textbooks are required and traditional
homework is replaced with projects where students work with real life
data.
AGEM can deal with large classes in thousands of schools so that costs
are reduced, performance is improved and daily evidence of performance
is available.
1 http://www.livemint.com/2011/05/08211747/Education-for-a-job-or-a-degr.html
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