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WizdomCRM AI Tutor Platform — A Cautionary Pilot in Ten Catholic Primary Schools, Trinidad and Tobago

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WizdomCRM Caribbean and Trinidad's Catholic Education Board piloted an AI tutor app with eight animated characters across ten primary schools in 2024. Only 194 of 300 sponsored places were filled, and no independent results from the pilot itself had been published as of mid-2025.

194 of 300 students
Students registered against sponsored places (Term II–III pilot, 2024)
WizdomCRM AI Tutor Platform — A Cautionary Pilot in Ten Catholic Primary Schools, Trinidad and Tobago

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Catholic Education Board of Management (CEBM) / WizdomCRM Caribbean Ltd
Period
January–July 2024 (Term II–III pilot); no published results as of mid-2025
Keywords
AI tutoring, primary education, EdTech pilot, Caribbean, evidence quality

Context

WizdomCRM Caribbean Ltd partnered with the Catholic Education Board of Management (CEBM), which oversees Trinidad and Tobago's Roman Catholic primary schools, to pilot an AI tutoring app across ten named schools.

Objectives

Provide AI tutoring across English, mathematics, science, social studies, Spanish and other subjects via eight animated AI characters, for use at school or at home.

Activities

CEBM announced an evaluation comparing Term I–II grades (September 2023–March 2024) against Term III pilot performance (April–July 2024), alongside pre/post questionnaires and teacher monitoring. WizdomCRM sponsored 300 places for Standard One to Three students, of which 194 registered, and donated 33 tablets that arrived only in the pilot's third term.

Results

As of mid-2025, over a year after the pilot ended, no results specific to the ten Trinidad schools had been published. The '15% improvement in academic performance' figure that circulated in Trinidad's press does not come from this pilot — it is drawn from an unrelated case study by UniDistance Suisse on a separate deployment.

Conclusions

Included as a cautionary case rather than a proven success: a defined evaluation methodology was announced, enrollment fell short of target, and the headline 'impact' figure attributed to the programme in local press was in fact imported from an unrelated study — illustrating a pattern common to commercially driven school AI pilots.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Structured as a Term II–III pilot (January–July 2024); no continuation or published outcomes confirmed as of mid-2025.
Staffing & skills
WizdomCRM Caribbean Ltd (platform provider), Catholic Education Board of Management (CEBM), oversight across the ten participating schools, Teachers, monitoring as part of the announced evaluation

Conditions for success

  • Planned pre/post evaluation methodology: Term I–II vs Term III grade comparison, pre/post questionnaires, and teacher monitoring

Common failure modes

  • Enrollment fell short of target: 194 of 300 sponsored places registered
  • Donated tablets (33) arrived only in the pilot's final term
  • No results specific to the ten schools published over a year after the pilot ended
  • The widely cited '15% improvement' figure was imported from an unrelated UniDistance Suisse study, not this pilot

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