ANNUAL STATUS OF EDUCATION REPORT ASER 2012 Shaheed

ANNUAL STATUS OF EDUCATION REPORT (ASER) 2012 Shaheed Benazirabad

ASER PAKISTAN 2010 -2015 q Citizen led large scale national household survey (3 -16). q Measure quality of education in rural and some urban areas (5 -16 years). q Seeks to provide evidence on learning and access gaps. Objectives are: q To get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level. q To measure the change in these basic learning and school statistics from last year.

ASER Outreach over the last 3 years q 2010 – 32 districts q 2011 – 85 districts q 2012 – 142 districts

Scale Coverage: Across Pakistan ASER 2012: 136 districts across Pakistan (136 Rural + 6 Urban /5 overlap with rural districts) Sindh: 22 district in 2012 compared to 17 districts in 2011 Sample: 600 households per district. Two-stage stratified sample; q 30 Villages q 20 Households per village 60 Schools per district q 2 Schools per village (1 Govt. & 1 Private school)

Scope Access: Enrollment, Type of School etc. Quality of Learning: Tested Subjects: Urdu, English and Math School Facilities: q Attendance teachers and children q Availability of drinking water q Availability of functional toilets, play ground and boundary walls

ASER Survey Sheets

ASER Pakistan Assessment Tools Grade II ASER Assessment tools are prepared in following Categories • Reading Urdu Sindhi Pashto • Arithmetic abilities • English

22 Districts Surveyed in Sindh

ASER Shaheed Benazirabad

Access What are our children doing?

Enrollment in Shaheed Benazirabad % Children in different types of schools Never enrolled Dropout Total 0. 1 14. 2 2. 9 100 0. 3 0. 0 17. 2 13. 3 100 1. 6 0. 0 20. 9 18. 2 100 3. 9 0. 5 0. 1 16. 0 7. 9 100 Age group Govt. 6 -10 78. 0 4. 1 0. 7 11 -13 64. 0 5. 2 14 -16 59. 3 6 -16 71. 6 Non-state providers Madrasah Others Pvt. Total By type % Out-of-school 76. 1 94. 2 5. 1 23. 9 0. 6 0. 1 Every 5 th child is out of school in Shaheed Benazirabad district 100

Enrollment in Shaheed Benazirabad

Enrollment in Shaheed Benazirabad

Enrollment (Ranking) DISTRICT % OF OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN RANK Nowshero Feroze 20. 4 1 Shaheed Benazirabad 23. 9 2 Gotki 26. 4 6 Khairpur 26. 7 7 Sukkhar 35. 7 17 Every 5 th child in Shaheed Benazirabad is not in school!

Quality Education? What are children learning in schools?

LEARNING LEVEL – URDU/Sindhi 66% Children in class 5 cannot read story (text of class 2). In other words, 66% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

LEARNING LEVEL – URDU/Sindhi (Ranking) Shaheed Benazirabad is at 16 th position in district ranking (URDU)! DISTRICT % Children who can read URDU Stories in Class 5 RANK Gotki 65. 2 1 Nowshero Feroze 57 2 Khairpur 43. 8 8 Shaheed Benazirabad 34. 1 16 Sukkhar 31. 9 18

ENGLISH 70% Children in class 5 cannot read sentences (text of class 2). In other words, 70% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

ENGLISH (Ranking) Shaheed Benazirabad is at 6 th position in district ranking (English)! DISTRICT % Children who can read English sentences In Class 5 RANK Sukkhar 48. 6 1 Nowshero Feroze 45. 5 2 Shaheed Benazirabad 30. 4 6 Gotki 27. 9 8 Khairpur 27 11

MATH 68% Children in class 5 cannot do division (3 digits by 1 digit). In other words, 68% children are behind 2 classes with respect to their competency level in math

MATH (Ranking) Shaheed Benazirabad is at 8 th position in district ranking (MATH)! % Children who can do DISTRICT 3 Digits Division in Class 5 RANK Nowshero Feroze 52. 5 1 Gotki 51. 6 2 Shaheed Benazirabad 31. 9 8 Khairpur 24 12 Sukkhar 23. 9 13

RANKING OF DISTT. Shaheed Benazirabad (Summary) Sr. No. Indicator % Rank 1 Out of School Children 23. 9 2 2 Urdu Readings 34. 1 16 3 English Readings 30. 4 6 4 Arithmetic learning 31. 9 8

LEARNING LEVELS - PUBLIC vs. PVT SCHOOLS Comparing Learning Levels of Private and Public Schools q 33% of class 5 students in Public Schools and 67% in Pvt. Schools can read story in Urdu. q 28% of Class 5 students in Public Schools while 100% in Pvt. Schools can read sentences in English. q Totally 32% of Class 5 students in Public while 33% in Pvt. Schools can do 3 digits division

Private Supplementary Tuition? • 48% Children from Pvt. Schools are attending Paid Tuition.

Basic Facilities in Government Schools

Attendance in Government Schools

What are children learning in Shaheed Benazirabad schools? Shaheed Benazirabad when compared to all the districts of Sindh learning level is not good in Urdu. q Shaheed Benazirabad comes in the last 6 distircts in learning levels in the subject. q

Parental Education An important factor that influences learning levels Only 12% Mothers have completed primary education in Shaheed Benazirabad

How can ASER 2012 inform the planning, drafting, resourcing and implementation of 25 -A? q ASER can help assess education with respect to : q Quality q Availability/Access q Equity q Planning according to district based assessment – generating District Report Cards (DRCs) linked to the Roadmap to Reforms and/or Sector Plans of the Provincial Governments. q Holding ASER Baithaks in ASER survey villages, parents, communities with parliamentarians and political holding ALL to account for ACTION! Continued Dialogues with Parliamentarians and Politicians in 2013 for elections, manifestoes and actionable steps that can be tracked q. Linking the ASER information to national data and GMR /UN Human Development Reports /others in the run up to 2015 & post 2015 debates q. Milestone achievement: “The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2012”

Discussion

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