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Schools need to be reformed to enhance learning outcomes. (Representational image)
The experts of the Forum also felt the critical need for the States to give priority to the establishment of SSSAs as envisaged by NEP 2020.
In India, while the number of children enrolled in primary schools (up to fifth standard) shows an encouraging trend of 98.6 per cent in the age group of 6-10 years, the learning outcomes of children at the primary level leave much to be desired. ,
findings of the annual survey of Education The report (ASER) 2022 indicates a realization of the worst fears about the ‘learning loss’ caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the learning outcomes of children aged 4-9 years.
Vyjayanthi Shankar, founder of the Center for Science of Student Learning, emphasized on effective methods of conducting competency-based assessment.
Shankar said, “For us, in order to have an effective strategy for conducting these assessments, there needs to be clarity as to which outcome is being assessed as well as which body is collecting the data.”
Taking an in-depth look at learning outcome-based reforms, experts from the education sector brainstormed to identify key reforms to meet the ultimate objectives of the National Education Policy 2020 at a forum organized by Central Square Foundation (CSF).
The main objective of the Forum was to adopt a framework and common understanding for timely adoption of reforms suggested by NEP 2020 for improving learning outcomes in school education.
“Whereas India Harish Doraiswami said that there has been considerable improvement in ensuring access to education to every child by providing new infrastructure and large scale recruitment of teachers etc. The need of the hour is to go beyond access to education and ensure quality education to all children Go , Project Director at CSF.
Effective and transparent approaches to deliver school, system and student-level outcomes have been rightly identified by NEP 2020 as key systemic drivers of reform. While steps are being taken to implement NEP 2020 in letter and spirit, these systemic drivers should also be given priority, he said.
Echoing the opinion, Geeta G Kingdon, Chair of Education and International Development at University College London, spoke about the need to set up an autonomous regulator, as suggested in the NEP 2020 as well.
Citing global and local examples, he said, “The road is certainly challenging but we should try to maintain the spirit in which the policy has recommended setting up of State School Standards Authority (SSSA).”
The experts at the Forum also felt that there is a critical need for states to prioritize the establishment of SSSAs as envisaged by NEP 2020 and conduct competency-based census assessments in a phased manner to improve learning outcomes.
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