{"id":175912,"date":"2022-03-25T21:12:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=175912"},"modified":"2022-03-25T21:12:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:42:37","slug":"ministry-of-education-to-conduct-a-foundational-learning-study-to-draw-a-first-hand-understanding-of-the-learning-levels-at-the-foundational-learning-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ministry-of-education-to-conduct-a-foundational-learning-study-to-draw-a-first-hand-understanding-of-the-learning-levels-at-the-foundational-learning-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Education to conduct a &#8216;Foundational Learning Study&#8217; to draw a first-hand understanding of the learning levels at the foundational learning stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Education will be conducting a &#8216;Foundational Learning Study&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Foundational Learning Study?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Conducted by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get a first-hand understanding of the learning levels of the students at the foundational learning stage (at the end of Grade 3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><b>Objectives of the study<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 To conduct a large-scale assessment of the foundational learning of grade 3 students to establish a baseline for the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/government-sets-up-national-steering-committee-for-implementation-of-the-nipun-bharat-mission\/\">NIPUN Bharat mission<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 To establish reading proficiency benchmarks for fluency with comprehension for each of the languages being assessed under the study<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 To provide the data for SDG 4.1.1. (Covering aspects of foundational literacy and numeracy).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Coverage:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The study will be conducted across all states and union territories. Approximately 10,000 schools and one lakh students are expected to participate in the study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This study is the first of its kind in the world, as it aims to set up benchmarks for reading with comprehension in 22 Indian languages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the importance of Foundational Learning?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/one-year-of-national-education-policy-explained-pointwise\/\">National Education Policy (NEP) 2020<\/a> has highlighted that \u201cthe ability to read, write, and perform basic operations with numbers, is a necessary foundation and an indispensable prerequisite for all future schooling and lifelong learning\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, focusing on \u2018learning achievement\u2019 in the foundational years is essential to empower learners with capabilities to make their subsequent learning experiences more meaningful and absorb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on an article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Ministry of Education to conduct a &#8216;Foundational Learning Study&#8217; to draw a first-hand understanding of the learning levels at the foundational learning stage<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <strong>P<\/strong><\/span><b>IB <\/b>on<b> 24th March 2022\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Ministry of Education will be conducting a &#8216;Foundational Learning Study&#8217;. What is Foundational Learning Study? Conducted by: National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)\u00a0 Aim: To get a first-hand understanding of the learning levels of the students at the foundational learning stage (at the end of Grade 3).\u00a0 Objectives&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ministry-of-education-to-conduct-a-foundational-learning-study-to-draw-a-first-hand-understanding-of-the-learning-levels-at-the-foundational-learning-stage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ministry of Education to conduct a &#8216;Foundational Learning Study&#8217; to draw a first-hand understanding of the learning levels at the foundational learning stage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-175912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700780445,"cached_date":1703421284},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}