TIP is a targeted instruction remedial program to help struggling primary students (grades 1-5) catch up in basic literacy and numeracy (Math, English and Urdu). Despite a rise in school enrolments, a learning crisis plagues the Pakistani education system in which most students lack foundational skills even after several years of schooling. Low average earning and high learning inequality in Pakistan, especially at the primary level, is expected to worsen because of COVID-induced household shocks and school closures. If these losses are not mitigated, they will compound over time causing children, particularly from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, to perform poorly, disengage and even drop out. In the first phase of using the TIP tool, Labs helped researchers to roll-out the tool to 1200-2000 government primary schools, in partnership with provincial government KP. Tool assisted more than 5,000 teachers in identifying and categorising 300,000+ students’ needs and supporting the provision of adaptive curriculum and assessments. In the second phase, as an extension of TIP to other areas of Pakistan, Labs helped the researchers again to build new versions and extended the existing features of the TIP tool. The new versions of the tools would impact more than 250,000 students in 500+ schools in Islamabad, capital territory of Pakistan. This tool is still in continuous development with MISchool since it started in 2021.
