Friday, January 27, 2012

Rural Student Cannot Read , Subtract and Divide


Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2011 depicts a gloomy picture of the quality of education in Rural Assam. A shocking  reflection of poor reading and arithmetic abilities, report says that 50.8% of class Five children cannot read even class 2 level text (Story in the above picture). Similarly 76% children cannot solve Division problems and 54% children cannot solve borrowing subtraction from the same class in Assam.

The time series analysis shows a significant trend of increase in the percentage of children who cannot read class 2 level text at class 5 and same trend reflects in basic calculation also. 

tools used in ASER to assess the Reading and Basic Mathematics of child

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