ANNUAL STATUS OF EDUCATION REPORT (ASER) 2012

ASER PAKISTAN 2010-2015

  Citizen led large scale national household survey

(3-16).

Measure quality of education in rural and some urban areas (5-16 years).

 Seeks to provide evidence on learning and access gaps.

Objectives are:

 To get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level.

 To measure the change in these basic learning and school statistics from last year.

ASER Outreach over the last 3 years



2010 – 32 districts



2011 – 85 districts



2012 – 142 districts

Coverage:

Scale

Across Pakistan

ASER 2012: 136 districts across Pakistan

(136 Rural + 6 Urban /5 overlap with rural districts)

Punjab : 36 district in 2012 compared to 28 districts in 2011 Sample: 600 households per district

. Two-stage stratified sample;  30 Villages  20 Households per village

60 Schools per district

 2 Schools per village (1 Govt. & 1 Private school)

Scope

Access:

Enrollment, Type of School etc.

Quality of Learning:

Tested Subjects: Urdu, English and Math

School Facilities:

 Attendance teachers and children  Availability of drinking water  Availability of functional toilets, play ground and boundary walls

ASER Pakistan Assessment Tools Grade II

ASER Assessment tools are prepared in following Categories •

Reading

 Urdu  Sindhi  Pashto •

Arithmetic abilities

•

English

36 Districts Surveyed in Punjab

ASER Chiniot

Access What are our children doing?

Enrollment in Chiniot

% Children in different types of schools Age group Govt.

Pvt.

Non-state providers Madrasah Others % Out-of-school Never enrolled Drop out

6-10 69.7

15.7

1.2

0.0

12.0

1.4

11-13 69.0

9.9

1.4

0.0

11.6

8.1

Total

100 100 14-16 52.0

6.7

1.1

0.0

24.5

15.6

100 6-16 65.7

12.3

1.2

0.0

14.7

6.1

100

Total 79.2

20.8

100 By type

82.9

15.6

1.6

0.0

Every 5 th child is out of school in Chiniot district

Enrollment in Chiniot

Enrollment in Chiniot

Enrollment (Ranking)

DISTRICT Jhang Chiniot Faisalabad T.T.Singh

% OF OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN 11.9

12.8

15.3

20.8

RANK 12 13 20 29 Every 8 th child in Chiniot is not in school!

Quality Education?

What are children learning in schools?

LEARNING LEVEL - URDU

26% Children in class 5 cannot read story (text of class 2) . In other words, 26% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

LEARNING LEVEL – URDU (Ranking)

Chiniot is at 6 th position in district ranking (URDU)!

DISTRICT Jhang Chiniot Faisalabad T.T.Singh

% Children who can read URDU Stories in Class 5 55.8

51.0

41.7

41.5

RANK 2 6 12 16

ENGLISH

42% Children in class 5 cannot read sentences (text of class 2) . In other words, 42% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

ENGLISH (Ranking)

Chiniot is at 10 th position in district ranking (English)!

DISTRICT Jhang Chiniot Faisalabad T.T.Singh

% Children who can read English sentences In Class 5 49.7

46.9

38.8

35.2

RANK 4 10 18 25

MATH

41%

Children in class 5 cannot do division (3 digits by 1 digit) . In other words, 41% children are behind 2 classes with respect to their competency level in math

MATH (Ranking)

Chiniot is at 6 th position in district ranking (MATH)!

DISTRICT Jhang Chiniot Faisalabad T.T.Singh

% Children who can do 3 Digits Division in Class 5 51.1

43.7

36.9

34.7

RANK 2 6 15 21

RANKING OF DISTT. Chiniot (Summary)

1 Sr. No.

Indicator Out of School Children 2 3 4 Urdu Readings English Readings Arithmetic learning % 12.8

51.0

46.9

43.7

Rank 13 6 10 6

LEARNING LEVELS - PUBLIC vs. PVT SCHOOLS



72%

of

class 5

students in Public Schools and

91%

in Pvt. Schools can read story in Urdu.

Comparing Learning Levels of Private and Public Schools



58%

of

Class 5

students in Public Schools while

55%

in Pvt. Schools can read sentences in English.

 Totally

59%

of

Class 5

students in Public while

55%

in Pvt. Schools can do 3 digits division

What are children learning in Chiniot schools?

 Chiniot when compared to all the districts of Punjab the learning levels are good in English, Math and Urdu.

 Chiniot comes in the Top 10 districts in learning levels in these subjects.

Type

Private Supplementary Tuition?

I II

Class-wise % children attending paid tuition

III IV V VI VII VIII IX Govt.

10.6

5.3

9.4

9.0

13.8

17.7

18.8

18.2

39.5

Pvt.

34.0

30.6

51.9

44.4

50.0

54.5

50.0

40.0

71.4

X 17.4

100.0

• 38% Children from Pvt. And 13% Children from Public Schools are attending Paid Tuition.

Parental Education

An important factor that influences learning levels

Only 15% in Chiniot.

Mothers have completed primary education

Attendance in Government Schools

Basic Facilities in Government Schools

How can ASER 2012 inform the planning, drafting, resourcing and implementation of 25-A?

 ASER can help assess education with respect to :  Quality  Availability/Access  Equity 

Planning according to district based assessment

– generating District Report Cards (DRCs) linked to the Roadmap to Reforms and/or Sector Plans of the

Provincial Governments

.

 Holding

ASER Baithaks

in ASER survey villages, parents, communities with parliamentarians and political holding ALL to account for ACTION!

Continued Dialogues with Parliamentarians and Politicians in 2013 for elections, manifestoes and actionable steps that can be tracked 

Linking the ASER information to national data and GMR /UN Human Development Reports /others in the run up to 2015 & post 2015 debates



Milestone achievement: “The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2012 ”

Discussion

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