Impacts
Of ASER
Slowly this is now the fourth year of ASER. As you
can imagine given what our learning numbers are,
there was a lot of skepticism in the government
in terms of accepting these numbers.
Now state governments use it as a routinely to plan
their activity. In fact people wait for ASER results.
Our National report was released on the 13th of
January and Bihar’s report was release on
the 17th and the Chief Minister released it.
Given that
there are no learning estimates available, it
has become a standard tool that now state administration
use. Now there are about 14 state governments,
who are working with us, in terms of teacher training
and so on.
ASER has being mentioned in the 11th plan document.
There is always a back and fourth with the government
in terms of the validity of the numbers. But there
is general acceptance.
To quote Nitish Kumar, he said ‘ Apne Hume
is saal chunauti di hai. Ab aap agle saal dekhna
ASER ka aser’.
Slowly but surely we are making an impact. This
year the other big thing happened with ASER is
Pakistan has decided to do ASER. They are finishing
up. They haven’t done it all over but they
have done about 40 districts. So we are waiting
for the results. They have adopted the same methodology.
Now Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda want to do it.
People from there came and attended our National
workshops, when we were in the training process.
They are now starting in their country too
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