{"id":278597,"date":"2024-01-18T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=278597"},"modified":"2024-01-18T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T11:34:00","slug":"aser-2023-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aser-2023-report\/","title":{"rendered":"ASER 2023 report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>: The post ASER 2023 report has been created, based on the article \u201cOver half of youth struggling with basic maths: ASER study<\/strong>\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>and \u201cCUES FOR REFORM<\/strong>\u201d published in \u201cIndian express<\/strong>\u201d on 18th January 2024.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus Topic:<\/strong> GS paper2-governance-Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Education.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The article discusses the ‘Beyond Basics’<\/strong> Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released by Pratham.<\/strong> It focuses on a survey of rural students aged 14 to 18 years,<\/strong> addressing their educational progress and challenges in India.<\/p>\n

What were the major findings in the ASER 2023 report?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Enrolment Rates:<\/strong> Overall, 86.8% of 14-18-year-olds are enrolled in an educational institution. The percentage of youth not enrolled is 3.9% for 14-year-old youth and 32.6% for 18-year-olds. Most of the people in this age group were enrolled in the Arts\/Humanities streams.<\/p>\n

Foundational skill gaps: <\/strong>About 25% cannot read Grade 2 text, and over 50% face difficulties with arithmetic skills expected by Grade 5, highlighting a deficit in foundational learning.<\/p>\n

Digital technology underutilized:<\/strong> Despite the high availability of smartphones in rural households (95%), their use for educational purposes is limited.<\/p>\n

Gender disparities: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Fewer females (28.1%) are in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics stream (STEM) stream compared to males (36.3%).<\/p>\n

Females are better at reading in their regional language, while males excel in arithmetic and English.<\/p>\n

Males are more likely to own and use smartphones.<\/p>\n

vocational training: <\/strong>The survey shows a low enrollment in vocational training, with only 5.6% of young people participating. Among these, college students are more engaged, with 16.2% enrolled in courses, usually lasting no more than six months.<\/p>\n

What were the suggestions provided in the ASER 2023 report?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Pedagogic Reforms for Rural Students: <\/strong>The report suggests reforming teaching methods to help students who balance academic and farm work, addressing the educational challenges faced in rural areas.<\/p>\n

Leverage Smartphones for Education and Address Digital Gender Gaps:<\/strong> ASER advocates using the widespread access to smartphones (95% of households) for educational purposes and emphasizes closing the gender gap in digital skills, as females lag behind males in smartphone proficiency.<\/p>\n

Rethink vocational education: <\/strong>To increase the 6% enrollment in vocational courses, ASER suggests reimagining vocational training to make it more aspirational and aligned with students’ interests.<\/p>\n

Question for practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discuss the major findings and suggestions provided in the ASER 2023 report regarding the educational progress and challenges of rural students aged 14 to 18 years in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post ASER 2023 report has been created, based on the article \u201cOver half of youth struggling with basic maths: ASER study\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d and \u201cCUES FOR REFORM\u201d published in \u201cIndian express\u201d on 18th January 2024. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS paper2-governance-Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Education.… Continue reading ASER 2023 report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,162,9],"tags":[300,212,10500],"class_list":["post-278597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-polity-governance","category-public","tag-governance","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278597","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}