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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Most Indian 14-18-Year-Olds in Rural Areas Are Reading at a Class Two Level, Finds Report

Most Indian 14-18-Year-Olds in Rural Areas Are Reading at a Class Two Level, Finds Report

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published Published on Jan 17, 2018   modified Modified on Jan 17, 2018
-TheWire.in

The Annual Status of Education Report for 2017 has surveyed how much 14-18-year-olds in rural areas are learning in school.

New Delhi:
If a person sleeps at 9:30 pm and wakes up at 6:30 am, how many hours did they sleep? If a t-shirt is priced at Rs 300 and the shop is offering a 10% discount, how much money would you need to buy it? If three chlorine tablets are needed to purify 15 litres of water, how many chlorine tablets are needed for 35 litres of water? On a map of India, can you point and show which state you live in?

These are some of the questions which 28,323 youths, aged between 14 and 18, were asked during the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)-Rural, 2017.

This round of the annual survey has been concerned with children in the age bracket of 14 to 18. Fourteen is the age up to which the government guarantees free and compulsory education, and “just four years later, these young people will become adults”, says the report. So the report has looked at what skills and abilities these children will need to be ready for productive lives as adults.

Arvind Subramanian, chief economic advisor to the government of India, and K.P. Krishnan, secretary in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, were present at the launch of the report in New Delhi on Tuesday.

“What ASER measures are actually very rudimentary things. This is rock bottom. This really gives a sense of where we are and where we need to go,” said Subramanian on the survey and report.

He is right, because although the survey says that nearly all children are today in school (86%), the study repeatedly notes that the results are not encouraging even among those who have completed eight years of schooling. For example, out of these youth, “a significant proportion still lack foundational skills like reading and arithmetic”.

“More than half struggle with division problems. Only 43% are able to do such problems correctly,” says the report. ASER considers the ability to do division as a proxy for the ability to do basic arithmetic operations.

Students perform best only with grade two level texts

As a testing exercise, the cohort was also checked for their ability to comprehend instructions on a packet of oral rehydration solution and to read a grade two level text. Seventy-five percent of youth could read the basic grade two level text. But only 54% could answer questions about the oral rehydration solution.

To assess comprehension, the young people were asked to read simple sentences in their own languages or in English. “What is the time? This is a large house. I like to read. She has many books,” are some examples of the basic sentences the children were surveyed on.

Fifty-three percent of all 14-year-olds could read these sentences. It rose to 60% in 18-year-olds. Seventy-nine percent could give the meaning of these sentences too.

This improvement with age does not at all show with arithmetic. Here, the percentage of those able to do just division, for example, dropped as children got older (43.5% of 14 year olds were able to perform division while 40.5% 18 year olds were able to).

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TheWire.in, 16 January, 2018, https://thewire.in/214382/aser-report-2017-india-rural-education/


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