Pratham’s Annual Survey of Education Report (ASER) 2022 — the first full-fledged after the pandemic has now been published.
This is an annual survey published by the education non-profit Pratham which aims to provide reliable estimates of children’s enrolment and basic learning levels for each district and state in India.
It is the annual source of information on children’s learning outcomes available in India.
The survey is conducted by close to 30,000 volunteers
The design enables all children to be included – those who have never been to school or have dropped out, as well as those who are in government schools, private schools, religious schools or anywhere else.
Information on schooling status is collected for all children living in sampled households who are in the age group 3-16 and Children in the age group 5-16 are tested in basic reading and basic arithmetic.
The ASER 2022 report, which surveyed 6.99 lakh children aged 3 to 16 across 616 rural districts
The results of the survey are eye opener in relation to the educational level of the kids
Survey states that the enrolment in the school has improved and the average attendance has also improved
The report highlights the learning loss amongst the students stating that the basic reading ability has dropped to pre2012 levels and that the number of students who can’t read the basic text is alarmingly high…
Similarly the Arithmetic abilities have declined over 70 per cent students can’t do basic operations like subtraction
The report points out that there is increased tuition dependency and finally the English proficiency has significantly declined….
The ASER Report indicate at one thing… and that is the situation needs to be improved at the war footing… will the ASER report show effect…
– -Dr Siddhivinayak Barve
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