ASER - Pakistan

ASER PAKISTAN ASER - The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a citizen led large scale national household survey about the quality of education in rural and some urban areas of Pakistan. Inspired by the ASER India & East Africa UWEZO methodology it seeks to fill a gap on learning outcomes by providing a reliable set of data at the national level on an annual basis, that is comprehensive and easy to understand. The survey’s objectives are three fold:  To get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic 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 levels.

Scale & Scope of Survey Coverage : In all five provinces i.e. Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan, and FATA & AJK.- Rural Phase I : Year I 2010 – 32 districts across Pakistan Phase II: Year II 2011 – 85 districts across Pakistan (84 Rural + 3 Urban /2 overlap with rural districts) Phase III : Years III, IV, V all districts across Pakistan (138 districts) Sample: 600 households per district. Two-stage stratified sample; 30 Villages will be selected randomly using the village directory of the latest Census. The Probability Proportional to Size Sampling (PPS) technique will be adopted as an appropriate one when the sampling units are of different sizes. 20 households per village and in each village 1 govt. and 1 private school are surveyed

ASER Pakistan – the Architecture Voluntary Surveyors (VSs) (CBOs, NGOs, Colleges, Universities) Village Level 20 Houses per Village District Level 30 Villages per district Provincial Level 2011=85 Districts = All Pakistan National Level Collaborating Partner Organizations (Master Trainers MT) & Volunteers Chief Collaborating Partners (CCP) External Collaborators (ASER India, PCE, Experts/ Resource Persons) SAFED /ITA Team Provincial Coordinators ASER Associates Master Trainers District Coordinator Donors/ Development Partners

ASER Calendar Piloting of ASER Tools Identifying Partners Preparing Survey Manuals National Workshop Data Processing & Report Writing District Report Cards - / Posters Designed (7) Survey & Recheck, Data Entry Coalition formation initiated Training & Survey Training & Survey – ASER District Coordinators & Other Hiring Completed Information Dissemination - January– April Citizen-led Advocacy for Improving Learning Outcomes - All strands activated Information Dissemination - January– April Citizen-led Advocacy for Improving Learning Outcomes - All strands activated May June JulyAugust DecemberNovember October September

Work Plan Sr. #ActivityTime lineLocation/ Pre Survey-Phase I: 1Resource Mobilization – Partner IdentificationApril- June Preparation of survey instruments/ToolsApril - May, 2012Lahore 3Partner MeetingJune 13, 2012Lahore 4Piloting of survey instrumentsAugust 1-9, 2012 Lahore, Graham Yar Khan Sukkur, Quetta, and Peshawar 5Review of Tools with StakeholdersAugust 10-17, 2012 NEAS,PEAS, IER, UOE, GCET 6Finalization of ToolsAugust 18, Training Course for ASER AssociateSeptember 11-20, 2012Lahore 8Core Group Meeting ( Quarterly)September 11, Review & Printing of Tools + LogisticsSeptember 11, 2012Lahore Survey-Phase II: 10National WorkshopAugust 7-11, 2012Islamabad 11TOT – BalochistanSeptember 17-19, 2012Quetta 12District level trainings & survey- BalochistanSeptember 18-23, 2012All ASER 2012 Districts 13Volunteer Training & Survey Gilgit- BaltistanSeptember 18-23, 2012Gilgit 14TOT – Punjab, FATA & ICTSeptember 21-23, 2012Islamabad / Lahore 15Core Group Meeting ( Quarterly)October 3, District level trainings Survey Punjab – Punjab and ICT September & October 1, 2, 2012All ASER 2012 Districts 17KP & Sindh – Provincial WorkshopOctober 5-7, 2012 Peshawar & Hyderabad 18 KP & Sindh District level Training & SurveyOctober 12-16, Data entry processOctober 1, 2012Lahore 20Data cross checksOctober 2012Lahore 21Data crunching/analysis and writingNovember 15, 2012Lahore 22Draft report for review by partnersDecember 5, 2012Lahore 23Core Group Meeting ( Quarterly)December 5, Report printingDecember 20, 2012Lahore

Work Plan Sr. # ActivityTime lineLocation/ Pre Survey-Phase I: 1 Resource Mobilization – Partner Identification April- June 2012 Post Survey-Phase III: 25National release (Provisional Report)January 17, 2013Islamabad 26 Punjab ReleaseJanuary 24, 2013Lahore Sindh releaseJanuary 31, 2013Karachi KP releaseFebruary 7, 2013Peshawar Baluchistan releaseFebruary 15, 2013Quetta Gilgit – Baltistan ReleaseFebruary 22, 2013Gilgit 27ASER BathaksFebruary – March, 2013All ASER 2012 Districts 28Core Group Meeting ( Quarterly)February 25, Policy AdvocacyJan- April, 2013

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

ASER Pakistan – the Architecture Voluntary Surveyors (VSs) (CBOs, NGOs, Colleges, Universities) Village Level 20 Houses per Village District Level 30 Villages per district Provincial Level 2011=85 Districts = All Pakistan National Level Collaborating Partner Organizations (Master Trainers MT) & Volunteers Chief Collaborating Partners (CCP) External Collaborators (ASER India, PCE, Experts/ Resource Persons) SAFED /ITA Team Provincial Coordinators ASER Associates Master Trainers District Coordinator Donors/ Development Partners

Section I : Scale of Survey

DistrictsVillagesSchoolsHouse holds Children The PILOT

DistrictsVillagesSchoolsHouse holds Children

DistrictsVillagesSchoolsHouse holds Children

DistrictsVillagesSchoolsHouse holds Children

Section II : Access?

Enrollment (6-16 years)  80% of 6-16 year olds in rural districts are enrolled in schools  74% enrollment in Govt schools  26% Rural children enrolled in private/ non-state sector  20% children are out of school ONE child Out of every FIVE Children is not in school

 Enrollment for boys higher as compared to girls in all provinces Inter-province Comparison Enrollment

 Enrollment decreases sharply as class level increases Class Wise Enrollment

Enrollment - Urban KARACHI LAHORE PESHAWAR  Gender Gap highest in Peshawar compared to Lahore & Karachi

Pre-School Enrollment (3-5 Years)  Enrollment of children of years 42% in 2011  Enrollment highest in Karachi Urban (69%) compared to urban Lahore (59%) & Peshawar (41%) Action : Early years need the best investment – the foundation years for future learning. Special attention and resources needed to increase enrollment with trained teachers and safe learning environment.

Section III : Quality?

Learning levels – Urdu ASER tools are created after analyzing textbooks Std 2 level text As compared to other provinces, Punjab has the highest level of learning for Class 3 Urdu

Leaning levels – English  Almost 59% of the children may complete primary without learning how to read fluently in English at grade II competencies Std 2 level text

Basic Arithmetic levels Almost 63% of the children may complete primary without learning how to do division at grade II competencies Std 2 level

Learning levels – Public vs. Private Reading levels better in Private schools for Urdu, English and Arithmetic  55% children in government and 43% children in private schools in class 5 are still unable to read a class 2 level Urdu text  Almost 64% of the children in Government schools and 42% of children in private schools may complete primary without learning how to read fluently in English at grade II competencies

Learning levels – Boys vs. Girls Learning levels better for boys in Urdu, English and Arithmetic

Learning Levels for Out of School Children 18% of out-of-school children could read a sentence in Urdu.

Section IV : Private Supplementary Tuition?

Additional learning support  7% Government and 24% Private enrolled children take tuition Rural

Section V : Attendance?

 Students “attendance as per register” (83%) higher compared to “attendance as per headcount” (80%) – Govt. schools  Overall better attendance in Private sector Attendance

Section VI : Other dimensions that influence teaching and learning?

Mother’s Literacy  Percentage of Illiterate mothers:  34.5% in Rural Districts.  As compared to Urban Lahore and Karachi, Urban Peshawar has the highest % of illiterate mothers (39%) UrbanLiterateIlliterate Lahore Karachi Peshawer

Basic Facilities – Toilet & Water 45% primary government schools still do not have useable water 57% primary government schools still no not have toilet facilities

Basic Facilities – Playground and Boundary Wall 63% primary government school have a boundary wall

Multi-grade Classes Around 44% primary government schools children of class 2 sit with some other class and share teachers What could cause this: Missing Teachers or lack of classrooms?

How can ASER 2011 inform the planning, drafting, resourcing and implementation of 25 A?  ASER can help assess education with respect to info. on:  Access  Quality  Equity  Planning according to district based assessment – generating District Report Cards (DRCs) linked to the Roadmap to Reforms initiative of the Govt. of Punjab.  Use of ASER data and teams for advocacy on Right to Education – focusing on gender & the excluded groups  Forming District RTE Vigilante Committees mobilizing coalitions, teachers, youth, media and bar associations.

For more information visit: