National Achievement Survey (NAS) is a nationally representative large-scale survey of students' learning undertaken by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. NAS gives a system level reflection on effectiveness of school education. Findings help compare the performance across spectrum and across population in order to find the desirable direction for improvements.
National Achievement Survey-2021 is scheduled on 12th November 2021. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has developed the Assessment Framework for gauging the competencies attained by the students vis-a-vis learning outcomes. The Survey goes beyond the scorecard and includes the background variables to correlate student's performance in different learning outcomes vis-a-vis contextual variables. This national level survey would be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) as Assessment Administrator for Grade 3, 5, 8 and 10 students of State Govt. schools, Govt. Aided schools, Private Unaided recognized schools and Central Government schools. The Survey will be conducted in a monitored environment in the sampled schools. Sampling Design for NAS 2021 intends to support the predefined and agreed objectives of the national assessment, NAS 2021 intends to provide information of what India's students know and can do in key grades and subjects at national, state, district and school type. Selection of sampled schools is based on UDISE+2019-20 data. Therefore, the States, Districts used for drawing of the samples for NAS 2021 is exactly as per the UDISE+2019-20.
NAS findings would help diagnose learning gaps of students and determine interventions required in education policies, teaching practices and learning. Through its diagnostic report cards, NAS findings help in capacity building for teachers, officials involved in the delivery of education. NAS 2021 would be a rich repository of evidences and data points furthering the scope of research and development. With this in view, NAS-2021 Portal has been developed by NIC as a dynamic platform in consultation with the NCERT, CBSE, UNICEF, DDG (Stats) and NITI Aayog under the overall guidance of Ministry of Education, Government of India. This portal would be a sustainable educational management information system both for helping in smooth conduct of NAS-2021 as well as for future decision-making based on data analytics. The portal provides role-based functionality and dashboard for managing the resources (various functionaries involved in the conduct & administration of NAS), activity and event monitoring, capacity building, reporting & documentation, post NAS analytical report in the customized formats.
Ministry of Education, GOI has initiated, NIPUN Bharat, a flagship programme to boast Foundational Literacy and Numeracy among the students up to age of 8 years in the country.
NAS Cell of this council has attended all online launch occasions under this programme. NCERT and Ministry of Education of India, New Delhi has conducted a National Level Foundational Learning Study 2022 to assess the Foundational Numeracy of students in all the states of the country w.e.f 23-26 March 2022 for which orientation in online mode wasorganized by NCERT from February 14-16, 2022 and attended by State Nodal Officer and Coordinator. The selection of schools was done by Ministry of Education (MoE) New Delhi by Stratified Random Sampling (SRS). A total of 183 schools were sampled in the state includingBilaspur (9), Chamba (15), Hamirpur (18), Kangra (37), Kinnaur (6), Kullu (19), Lahaul&Spiti (2), Mandi (16), Shimla (16), Sirmaur (10), Solan (19) and Una (16).
The Survey was conducted with the help of Field Investigators (FIs) D.El.Ed Trainees of DIETs. The following Activities were undertaken to execute FLS 2022 Study:-
1. Development of survey tool under guidance of NAS Cell of NCERT, New Delhi workshop organized through blended mode.
2. Piloting of tools in 50 schools of Solan, Shimla and Bilaspur Districts.
3. Finalization and Adaptation of tools in 3 Workshops in blended mode with NCERT, New Delhi.
4. Identification of District Coordinators and Field investigators from DIETs of Himachal Pradesh.
5. The training of SLMTs, DLMTs on 11-03-2022 & FIs followed by Dry Run on 14-15 March.
6. Printing and dissemination of Survey material to District Coordinators of all Districts.
7. Conduct of Dry Run, Main Survey, Monitoring, collection & dispatch of used survey OMR Sheets to NCERT, New Delhi for further analysis.
Coordinator and Asstt. Coordinators Team