ASER Full Form

ASER Full Form

ASER Full Form is  the Annual Status of Education Report

Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024 released by NGO Pratham Foundation. This report is people-based survey in India. It provides reliable data on children’s schooling and learning levels in rural India.

·        The ‘basic’ ASER survey tracks enrolment for children aged 3-16 and assesses basic reading and arithmetic of children aged 5-16. It was conducted every year from 2005 to 2014 in almost all rural districts of India.

·        Beginning in 2016, an alternate-year model was introduced, where the ‘basic’ ASER survey is conducted in alternate years and in the gap years, a different lens is employed to examine different age groups and/or new aspects of children’s learning.

Findings of the report 2024  :

·        Over 82.2 % teens (i.e. 14-16 age ) know how to use smartphone, only 57% engage for educational purpose.Among the smartrphone user 85.5% of boys and 79.4 % of girls is seen.

·        States like MP, Bihar and Jharkhand are lagging behind national average in both smartphone ownership and using capabilities.

·        Only 23% of class 3 govt school students in Karnataka can do subtraction:

·        In Haryana, government school student’s learning gains higher than those in private schools in 2 years.

·        Math skill improve across states: Reading ability, maths in govt school student (classes 1-8) better than pre-pandemic.

·        Survey covers 6,49,492 children in 17,997 villages across 605 rural districts in India.

·        Significant improvement in digital literacy and smartphone usage among adolescents aged 14-16 post-covid was seen.

·        75% of children were able to tasks using smartphone. However, gender gap is still alarming in digital space 81.5 % of boys compared to 72.4 % of girls were able to complete these tasks.

·        Interestingly, among the southern states in Karnataka, Andhra and Kerala girls either performed equal to boys or outperformed them.

·        Among the children of the age group (14-16), 36.2 per cent of boys owning a smartphone compared to 26.9 per cent of girls.

·        In Kerala about 80% of the children are using smartphone for educational purpose and more then 90% are using it for social media engagement.

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