The Department of School Education and Literacy under Ministry of Education on May 25 released the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 report. The last NAS was held in 2017.
Key features of NAS Report
- The NAS report assesses the health of school education system in the country by conducting comprehensive evaluation survey of children’s learning competencies at classes III, V, VIII and X with a cycle period of three years.
- It reflects the overall assessment of school education system.
- The NAS 2021 was held at all India level and covered (a) Government Schools (Central Government and State Government); (b) Government Aided Schools; and (c) Private Unaided Schools.
- Subjects covered are Language, Mathematics & EVS for class 3 & 5; Language, Mathematics, Science & Social Science for class 8 and Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and English for class 10.
- The achievement tests along with the questionnaires, i.e., pupil questionnaire, teacher questionnaire and school questionnaire were developed and translated in 22 different languages by NCERT.
- This nation-wide survey was administered by the CBSE in one single day at the same time.
- In order to capture student attainment of Learning Outcomes at the end of Classes III, V, VIII and X, an OMR based achievement test comprising of Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs) was conducted
- As NAS 21, the national average percentage of students for class third was 59%, which declined by 10 percentage points to 49% in class fifth. It further declined to 41.9% in class eight and to 37.8% in class 10.
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