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 Jhang

Access What are our children doing?

Enrollment in Jhang

Age group % Children in different types of schools Non-state providers Govt.

Pvt.

Madrasah 6-10 11-13 14-16 6-16 Total By type 53.7

56.0

51.4

53.8

63.2

38.2

27.9

14.5

30.3

35.6

85.1

0.2

0.0

1.1

0.3

0.4

Others 1.2

0.3

0.0

0.7

0.8

% Out-of-school Never enrolled Drop out 4.2

4.0

10.3

5.5

2.6

11.8

22.7

9.4

14.9

Total 100 100 100 100 100 Every 7 th child is out of school in Jhang district

Enrollment in Jhang

Enrollment in Jhang

Enrollment (Ranking)

DISTRICT % OF OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN RANK Khushab Sargodha Jhang Mianwali Bakhar 10.0

14.2

14.9

16.2

24.1

9 15 18 22 33 Every 7 th child in Jhang is not in school!

Quality Education?

What are children learning in schools?

LEARNING LEVEL - URDU

41% Children in class 5 cannot read story (text of class 2) . In other words, 41% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

LEARNING LEVEL – URDU (Ranking)

Jhang is at 29 th position in district ranking (URDU)!

DISTRICT Mianwali Bhakar Jhang Sargodha Khushab % Children who can read URDU stories in Class 5 75.6

63.7

59.4

51.1

51.1

RANK 7 26 29 32 33

ENGLISH

32% Children in class 5 cannot read sentences (text of class 2) . In other words, 32% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

ENGLISH (Ranking)

Jhang is at 13 th position in district ranking (English)!

DISTRICT Mianwali Jhang Bhakar Khushab Sargodha %Children who can read English sentences in Class 5 62.2

68.4

50.8

45.7

38.1

RANK 11 13 30 32 36

MATH

47%

Children in class 5 cannot do division (3 digits by 1 digit) . In other words, 47% children are behind 2 classes with respect to their competency level in math

MATH (Ranking)

Jhang is at 22 nd position in district ranking (MATH)!

DISTRICT Mianwali Bhakar Jhang Khushab Sargodha % Children who can do 3 Digits Division in Class 5 70.5

56.1

53.1

51.1

34.3

RANK 2 18 22 25 36

RANKING OF DISTT.

Jhang

(Summary)

1 Sr. No.

Indicator Out of School Children 2 3 4 Urdu Readings English Readings Arithmetic learning % 14.9

59.4

68.4

53.1

Rank 18 29 13 22

LEARNING LEVELS - PUBLIC vs. PVT SCHOOLS



46%

of

class 5

students in Public Schools and

75%

in Pvt. Schools can read story in Urdu.

Comparing Learning Levels of Private and Public Schools



54%

of

Class 5

students in Public Schools while

86%

in Pvt. Schools can read sentences in English.

 Totally

31%

of

Class 5

students in Public while

80%

in Pvt. Schools can do 3 digits division

What are children learning in Jhang schools?

 Jhang when compared to all the districts of Punjab the learning levels are not very good in Math and Urdu.

 Jhang comes in the bottom 8 districts in learning levels(Urdu).

Type Private Supplementary Tuition?

I Class-wise % children attending paid tuition II III IV V VI VII VIII IX Govt.

Pvt.

9.5

14.3

10.9

5.8

21.9

13.6

8.7

37.5

36.2

19.6

30.8

31.1

40.0

27.3

19.6

27.8

X 20.9

19.4

31.6

20.0

• 31% Children from Pvt. And 13% Children from Public Schools are attending Paid Tuition.

Parental Education

An important factor that influences learning levels

Only 39% in Jhang.

Mothers have completed primary education

Attendance in Government Schools

Basic Facilities in Govt. Primary 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 ”

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