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20 Key Facts from the ASER Report 2016
By ASER Centre
January 20, 2017
Annual Status of Education Report 2016
Introduction:
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a household survey that renders the estimate of children’s schooling status and their ability to read simple text and do basic arithmetic. The survey reaches almost all the rural districts of India and covers the children between the age group of 3-16.
Unlike most of the large scale learning revaluation, ASER is household based study rather than being school based. This particular pattern of the survey allows all the children to be included- even those who have never been to school or have dropped out, in addition to the children who attends private schools, government school , religious school or any other type of school. It thus brings forth the approximation of the basic learning for all children in rural India.
Assisted by Pratham, ASER is carried out by around 500 partner organizations and over 25,000 volunteers across the country. All sort of institutions collaborates with ASER, among them are colleges, universities, NGO’s, youth groups, self help groups and women’s organization. ASER has been conducted every year since 2005, with 2015 being an exception.
ASER 2016 encompassed 589 rural districts across India. The survey was spread over 17, 473 villages, which included 350,322 households and 562,305 children among the age group of 3-16.
20 Key Findings from ASER report 2016:
1. In some states, the chunk of out of school children has increased since the last survey.
2. The percentage of girls out of school remains higher than 8%.
3. The gender gap in private school admission has moderately decreased.
4. There’s a substantial increase in government school enrolment in the state of Gujarat and Kerala.
5. Although low, the all (rural) India figures for basic arithmetic figures have improved. This is the first year since 2010 to have an ascending trend in arithmetic figures.
6. The ability to do division among the grade VIII students has continued to sink.
7. All most all the states show improvement the arithmetic levels of the children admitted in government schools in class III.
8. For class V children, the ability to do simple arithmetic remains same since 2009 except for the five states that shows a rise of 5%.
9. Children’s ability to read English remains relatively unchanged since 2009.
10. The children who can read (never mind the grade), approximately 60% of the children could explain the meaning of the said words.
11. There’s has been a drastic decline in the number of children in upper primary grade who can read simple sentences in English.
12. Children’s attendance varies significantly from state to state. States like Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Nagaland, Mizoram, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu have attendance levels that are above 80%. On the other hand, states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Manipur, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh, attendance rates fall to 50% to 60%.
13. Data over time shows that children’s attendance in both primary and upper primary have significantly fallen in 2016 compared to 2009.
14. The proportion of “small schools” in the government primary sector continues to advance.
15. Of the government primary school visited in 2016, 60% of the schools are the “small schools” with around 60 or less students enrolled.
16. There has been a significant growth in the functionality of useable toilets since 2010. Only 3.5% of schools that were visited in 2016 did not have useable toilets.
17. The states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh & Haryana saw a rise in the number of girls’ toilets.
18. Availability of drinking water in the schools visited in 2016 saw a decline compared to 2014. In the states of Chattisgrah, Gujarat, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh, drinking water was available in over 85% of the schools.
19. The availability of computers in the schools visited remains stagnate since 2014.
20. More children are seen using the library since 2014 but the proportion of schools with libraries have fallen significantly.
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