{"id":90702,"date":"2020-10-29T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18230"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T09:25:28","slug":"nearly-20-of-rural-school-children-had-no-textbooks-due-to-covid-19-impact-finds-aser-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nearly-20-of-rural-school-children-had-no-textbooks-due-to-covid-19-impact-finds-aser-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 20% of rural school children had no textbooks due to COVID-19 impact, finds ASER survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Annual State of Education Report(ASER) survey has been released by the NGO Pratham.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>ASER: <\/strong>It is a nationwide survey of rural education and learning outcomes in terms of reading and arithmetic skills that has been conducted by the NGO Pratham for the last 15 years.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>ASER 2020: <\/strong>It was conducted in 26 states and four Union Territories.It is the first ever phone-based ASER survey and it was conducted in September 2020, the sixth month of national school closures.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/ZXkAcwVGfc8yUVNT_6AGI9Ddk_Q_2qnxNLW83JfSkY9vSQsoRqNOKPYQENsNqBP9q7EmhqjCrfrDfSUfu2J5NKjToQZYXSAe8dhhb8LyjfkODg9o17FubmMjjXWq0WKngvrlDndW\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Enrolment:\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>5<strong>.<\/strong>3% of rural children aged 6-10 years had not yet enrolled in school this year in comparison to just 1.8% in 2018.<\/li>\r\n<li>Among 15-16 year-olds, enrollment levels are slightly higher than in 2018.<\/li>\r\n<li>However, there has been a clear shift in enrolment from private to government schools between 2018 and 2020.Reasons may include financial distress in households or permanent school shutdowns among the private schools.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Availability of Textbooks:\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>About 20% of rural children have no textbooks at home due to Covid-19 impact.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Availability of Smartphones:\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Among enrolled children, 61.8% live in families that own at least one smartphone which was merely 36.5% in 2018.<\/li>\r\n<li>About 11% of families bought a new phone after the lockdown of which 80% were smartphones.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Learning Activities:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Most children (70.2%) did some form of a learning activity through material shared by tutors or family members themselves, with or without regular input.<\/li>\r\n<li>11% had access to live online classes and 21% had videos or recorded classes with much higher levels in private schools.<\/li>\r\n<li>However, during the week of the survey, about 1 in 3 rural children had done no learning activity at all.About 2 in 3 had no learning materials or activity given by their school that week and only one in ten had access to live online classes.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Parental Levels of Education:\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>About 20% of children whose parents had less than five years of education got learning materials compared to 46% among parents who had studied beyond Class IX themselves.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Zvy2HWbE1S\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/annual-status-of-education-report-aser-2018-2\/\">Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), 2018.<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), 2018.&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/annual-status-of-education-report-aser-2018-2\/embed\/#?secret=GLYHdY798K#?secret=Zvy2HWbE1S\" data-secret=\"Zvy2HWbE1S\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Annual State of Education Report(ASER) survey has been released by the NGO Pratham. Facts: ASER: It is a nationwide survey of rural education and learning outcomes in terms of reading and arithmetic skills that has been conducted by the NGO Pratham for the last 15 years. ASER 2020: It was conducted in 26&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nearly-20-of-rural-school-children-had-no-textbooks-due-to-covid-19-impact-finds-aser-survey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nearly 20% of rural school children had no textbooks due to COVID-19 impact, finds ASER survey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704758121},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90702","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}