ANNUAL STATUS OF EDUCATION REPORTASER-PAKISTAN 2011

April 13 , 2012

ASER PAKISTAN 2011ASER- Annual Status of Education report is a survey of the quality of education. ASER seeks to fill a gap in educational data by looking to provide a reliable set of data at the national level.ASER is a citizen led survey and it is conducted with the help of Govt, Civil Society Organizations and some other stakeholders working in education sector.

• To get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level.

• To measure the change in these basic learning and school statistics from last year.

• To interpret these results and use them to affect policy decisions at various level.

OBJECTIVES OF ASER

• ASER Pakistan focuses on status of schooling and learning level of the children. In ASER we assess that How well our children learn? What are the competencies of our children in Urdu, English & Math?

• The test conducted for the said assessment are up to class II & III level designed from their textbooks.

FOCUS OF ASER

ASSESSMENT TOOLS

Scale of Survey

Scale: • Pilot Year in 2008 – 11 districts • 2010 – 32 districts• 2011 – 85 districts,

84 rural and 3 urban.

Punjab• 15 districts in 2010 • 28 districts in 2011 •City District Lahore surveyed for the first time

SCALE OF ASER

ASER Rahim Yar Khan

• ASER conducted in 30 villages of Rahim Yar Khan.

• We selected 20 households from every village randomly by using PPS technique.

• Totally 600 households surveyed during ASER 2011 in Rahim Yar Khan.

• Also 30 public & 9 private Schools surveyed during ASER2011 Rahim Yar Khan.

ASER- Rahim Yar Khan

Villages Surveyed

Tehsil Khanpur1- Mian Wali2- Gehna Lar3- Jetha Bhutta4- Laloo Wala5- Lanjiwar6- Noor wah7- Jam pur

Tehsil Liaqatpur1- Sadiq Pur.2- Kotla Nawab.3- Nala Musani.4- Gulani.5- Ghazi Pur. 6- 181/7-R.7- GABOLE. 8- MALKHANI.

Villages Surveyed

Tehsil Rahim yar khan1- Chak No.223/P.2- Chak No.83/P.3- Badli Sharif.4- Jeend Wali.5- Akram Abad.6- Chack No 142/P.7- Chack No 088/P.8- Bahaudi Pur Machian.

Tehsil Sadiqabad1- Ali Mardan.2- Bhong.3- Kot Ghulam Miran Shah.4- Piran Bhutta.5- Wahid Bakhsh Lar.6- Ahmed Khan Dehr. 7- CHAK NO 234/P.

Section I : Access?

FINDINGS OF ASER – Rahim Yar Khan

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

Every 3rd child is still out of school in rural area of RYK.

ENROLLMENT

• Enrollment rate of Rahim Yar Khan as compared to some other districts is not good.•Every 4th child is out of school in Rahim Yar Khan.

DISTRICT % OF OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

RANK

Rahim Yar Khan 27.5 26

Lodhran 30.1 27

Rajanpur 38.3 28

Bahawalpur 20.5 21

Muzaffargarh 21.5 22

Section II : Quality?

LEARNING LEVELS - URDU

DISTRICT READING LEVEL URDU (5-16 Years)

RANK

Bahawalnagar 33.8 19Lodhran 32.4 21

Bahawalpur 31.0 24Muzaffargarh 29.4 25

Rahim Yar Khan 24.0 27

• Urdu Reading Level in Rahim Yar Khan is lower than some other Districts.

LEARNING LEVEL - URDU

65% Children in class 5 cannot read story (text of class 2) . In other words, 65% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

LEARNING LEVELS - ENGLISH

DISTRICT READING LEVEL ENGLISH (5-16 Years)

RANK

Bahawalnagar 29.1 20Lodhran 27.8 22

Bahawalpur 25.8 24Muzaffargarh 25.7 25

Rahim Yar Khan 22.7 27

• Only 23 % Children Can read English sentence.

LEARNING LEVEL - ENGLISH

58% Children in class 5 cannot read sentences (text of class 2) . In other words, 58% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level in English.

LEARNING LEVELS - ARITHEMETIC

DISTRICT Division 3 Digits(5-16 Years)

RANK

Bahawalnagar 26.6 19Lodhran 25.5 21

Muzaffargarh 23.9 24Bahawalpur 23.5 25

Rahim Yar Khan 19.0 27

• Arithmetic Learning Level in Rahim Yar Khan is lower in neighboring Districts.

LEARNING LEVEL - ARITHEMATIC

70% Children in class 5 cannot do division (3 digits by 1 digit) . In other words, 70% children are behind 2 classes with respect to their competency level in math.

LEARNING LEVELS - PUBLIC vs PVT SCHOOLS

• Learning Levels of English, Urdu & Arithmetic are better in Pvt. Schools than in Govt SchoolsTotally 27% of Class 5 students in Public while 50% in Pvt. Schools ca do 3 digits division.

37% of Class 5 students in Public Schools while 85% in Pvt. Schools can read sentences in English.

33% of class 5 students in Public Schools 54% in Pvt. Schools can read story in Urdu.

Section III : Private Supplementary Tuition?

Additional Learning Support

• 29% Children from Pvt. and 20% Children from Public Schools are attending Paid Tuition.• There has been an increase in tuitions from last year.

Section IV : Mother’s Literacy – An important factor that influences learning levels

MOTHER LITERACY

• Only 28 % Mothers are literate in Rahim Yar Khan.

Available Facilities in Schools (From DRC) School Facilities (Total Schools = 3225, Boys school=1716 and Girls school=1509 )Basic Facilities

Primary Middle High Higher Sec Total Male Female

Useable Water 2,337 321 163 11 2832 (88%) 1618 (94%) 1214(80%)

Useable Toilet 2,161 315 158 11 2645 (82%) 1383(81%) 1262(84%)

Rooms Available 2,083 315 158 11 2567 1424 1143

Rooms used for classes 2,613 2,370 2,003 196 7182 4375 2807

Number of Schools with 1 or 2 classrooms 1,795 04 00 00 1799 (56%) 801(47%) 998(66%)

Availability of Playground 755 178 126 08 1067 (33%) 694(40%) 373(25%)

Availability of Boundary wall

2,227 294 137 11 2669 (83%) 1269(74%) 1400(93%)

Section V: How far have we come on RTE compliance?

Article 25 A : “The state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen

years in such a manner as may be determined by Law”

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