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Learning skills dip among primary students in 2020- ASER report

by TLN Team September 7, 2021September 7, 2021
written by TLN Team September 7, 2021September 7, 2021

With a year-and-a-half of schools closed due to COVID-19 and forcing educational institutes to look for a new perspective of learning. However, reading and numeracy skills among children have taken a big hit, especially among students in primary classes.

According to the latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), conducted in March this year in rural Karnataka, shows that in the two years between 2018 and now, the percentage of students in Class 4, for example, who cannot recognize even a letter in Kannada, went from 5.1% in 2018 to 12% in 2020. For students in Class I, this percentage dipped from 40.3% in 2018 to 56.8% in 2020.

The survey indicates how learning levels among school-going children have been impacted because of schools being shut during the pandemic. The study was conducted in March 2021 among 18,385 children between the ages of 5 and 16 across 24 districts of Karnataka.

“Although the original plan was to conduct this exercise in several states, it could successfully be completed in only one state, Karnataka, before the second wave of COVID hit the country,” said ASER Centre in a press release.

Only 9.8% children in Class 3 in both government and private schools could read the text, down from 18.3% in 2014 in the ASER reading assessment. This dip is sharper for private schools from 23.3% in 2014 to 9.9% now.

The learning loss was less acute in higher classes among Class 8 students, for instance, the learning loss in terms of reading fell from 70.6% in 2014 to 66.4% in 2020.

Numeracy skills were impacted too. For example, the percentage of children in Class 1 who cannot recognize digits between 1 and 9 went up from 29.7% in 2014 to 42.6% in 2020. For Class 5 students, this figure was 2.3% in 2014 and now stands at 4.6%. The percentage of Class 4 students who can do simple division went down from 12.1% to 3.6% in the same period.

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