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Mendaki, SUSS working to find out what affects students' grades
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(From far left) Ms Li Jizhi, research assistant at SUSS' Business Intelligence and Analytics unit; Associate Professor Sylvia Chong, project lead of the unit; Mendaki chief executive Rahayu Buang; Mendaki deputy chief executive Aidaroyani Adam; and Ms Siti Afiyah Mustapha, senior research and planning executive at Mendaki. SUSS and Mendaki are working on a project to understand the effectiveness of the self-help group's flagship programme - the Mendaki Tuition Scheme - which it has been running since 1982.
ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
While pupils' grades tend to dip between Primary 3 and Primary 5, many parents who approach self-help group Yayasan Mendaki for tuition assistance do so only in the run-up to the Primary School Leaving Examination when their children are in Primary 5 or Primary 6.
This was an interim finding of a research project by the group, which is working with the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).
