At least 78 per cent of school students found learning at home during the pandemic a “burden” while 24 per cent of them did not have a digital device at home, according to the National Achievement Survey (NAS)-2021 conducted by the ministry. education. The survey found that students’ learning levels (achievements) decline as they move to higher grades. The survey also highlighted that India 48 per cent students go to school on foot.
Last year NAS was conducted across the country for classes 3, 5, 8 and 10 on November 12. Around 34 lakh students from 1.18 lakh schools in 720 districts, both rural and urban, have participated in the survey. The last NAS was conducted in 2017.
According to the report released on Wednesday, at least 78 per cent of the students said that they found learning at home with a lot of assignments difficult during the pandemic. 45 per cent students said that online learning brings joy, 38 per cent respondents faced difficulty in learning.
Twenty-four percent of the students claimed that they did not have any digital device at home. 50 percent of students said that there is no difference between learning at home and school, while 80 percent said that they learn better in school with the help of their peers. Seventy percent of students said they have plenty of time to learn new things at home during the pandemic. Schools remained closed for several months across the country in view of the pandemic.
NAS covers government, government aided and private schools. The subjects covered for class 3 and 5 were Language, Mathematics and EVS; Language, Mathematics, Science and Social Science for class 8 and Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and English for class 10. “NAS 2021 aims to assess the progress and learning ability of children as an indicator of the efficiency of the education system, so that appropriate steps can be taken for remedial actions at various levels. This will help in bridging the gaps in learning.” and support the state and union territory governments in developing long-term, mid-term and short-term interventions to improve learning levels and orient on gap planning based on survey data,” said a senior MoE official. “Achievement Test with Questionnaires – Student Questionnaire, Teacher Questionnaire and School Questionnaire – was developed and translated by NCERT into 22 different languages. It was administered by Nationwide Survey CBSE same day at the same time. The survey was managed through a technology platform designed and developed by the National Informatics Center (NIC), ”said the official.
According to the report, the average performance of students at the national level on a scale score of 500 begins to decline in higher classes. For example, the national average performance of a Class 3 student in the language is 323 out of 500, but the same drops to 260 in Class 10. Similarly, the national average score at Class 3 level in Mathematics is 306, which comes down to 284. in class 5; 255 in class 8; and 220 in class 10. The NAS report also presented state wise performance.
Most of the states/UTs performed well below the overall national score, while states like Punjab, Kerala, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and union territories like Chandigarh showed better results than the national average. According to the report, the average achievement of schools in rural areas was lower than schools in urban areas in the same states/UTs. For example, the average achievement of schools in rural areas was lower than their urban counterparts in all states and union territories except Manipur and Daman and Diu in language in Class 8.
In terms of social-group-wise performance, the average performance of SC, ST and OBC students was lower in almost all sections of the states as compared to the general category students. For example, in Class 10 English, the national average score for general category students was 308, while it was 283 for SC students, 280 for STs and 289 for OBC students.
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