Why One Size Fits All Software Failed This EdTech Founder

About this episode

Sarah Sheikh discusses her journey in identifying gaps in student progress measurement in education.

In this episode of Low Code/High Impact, we sit down with Sarah Sheikh, founder of The Power of Formative Assessment, an edtech company based in Dubai. Sarah spent over a decade teaching in international schools before identifying a critical gap in how student progress was being measured. In education, attainment (student achievement at a point in time) and progress (growth measured over time) are two distinct concepts, yet no platform effectively tracked both. That insight, combined with her...

People in this episode

Host: Paul Quirk

Guest: Sarah Sheikh

Topics covered

• EdTech
• formative assessment
• student progress
• education technology
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• EdTech
• formative assessment
• student achievement
• progress tracking
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Power of Formative Assessment

Places: Dubai

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