Clinton School student Veena Rangaswami (’13) partnered with a nonprofit that provides educational opportunities to underprivileged children in Mumbai, India, to build a database of students enrolled in its programs and provide feedback on evaluation and testing processes.
Rangaswami worked closely with staff at Sujaya Foundation to supervise the testing process and to create a central database in which students’ results from across years can be stored.
“Veena did a thorough job after taking inputs from all the relevant people and helped create a testing grid and curriculum, and she also helped supervise the testing,” said Huzan Mistry, administrative trustee for Sujaya. “She subsequently did an excellent job of collating all the data generated and built spreadsheets that the follow-up team can use to continue the good work she started.”
The database will allow Sujaya staff, trustees and donors to view a student’s progress during their time enrolled in Sujaya’s programs. Sujaya plans to use this database to create a map to visually demonstrate the student’s progress.
The feedback provided by Rangaswami will inform Sujaya’s creation of future evaluation tests. Additionally, she created an instruction manual detailing the step-by-step process of creating and administering the evaluation test as well as how to analyze the results and include them in the database.
Rangaswami also worked closely with Sujaya’s teachers to identify the areas in which their students were excelling and which areas needed more attention. This will allow teachers to focus their efforts on specific areas to further help their students advance.
Rangaswami completed this work as part of her Capstone project, one of the three field service projects completed during the Clinton School Master of Public Service degree program.
Her other field work during her time at the Clinton School includes projects with Room to Read in Nepal and Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute’s Delta Garden Study in Little Rock.
About Sujaya Foundation
Sujaya Foundation was established in 2002 in Mumbai, India, to provide formal and informal educational activities for underprivileged children. Their goal is to help children studying in local language schools compete with students who study in English-language schools.
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