1. ANNUAL STATUS OF EDUCATION REPORT (ASER)
2012
Bahawalnagar

2. ASER PAKISTAN
Citizen led large scale national household survey (3-16).
Measure quality of education in rural and some urban areas (5-16 years).
Seeks to provide evidence on learning and access gaps.
Objectives are:
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.

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

4. Scale Coverage: Across Pakistan
ASER 2012: districts across Pakistan
(136 Rural + 6 Urban /5 overlap with rural districts)
Punjab : 36 district in 2012 compared to 28 districts in 2011
Sample: 600 households per district. Two-stage stratified sample;
30 Villages
20 Households per village
60 Schools per district
2 Schools per village (1 Govt. & 1 Private school)

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

6. ASER Survey Sheets

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

8. 36 Districts Surveyed in Punjab

9. ASER Bahawalnagar

10. What are our children doing?
Access
What are our children doing?

11. Enrollment in Bahawalnagar
% Children in different types of schools
% Out-of-school
Total
Age group
Govt.
Non-state providers
Never
enrolled
Drop-
out
Pvt.
Madrasah
Others
6-10
65.5
17.9
1.6
0.9
10.3
3.8
100
11-13
57.5
14.2
1.9
1.1
7.8
17.5
14-16
54.9
8.5
0.0
26.3
6-16
61.9
15.4
1.4
0.8
9.8
10.7
79.5
20.5
By type
77.8
19.4
1.7
1.0
Every 5th child is out of school in Bahawalnagar district

12. Enrollment in Bahawalnagar

13. Enrollment in Bahawalnagar

14. Enrollment (Ranking) Every 5th child in Bahawalnagar is not in school!
DISTRICT
% OF OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
RANK
Bahawalnager
20.5 27
Bahawalpur
22.6 30
Rahim Yar Khan
34.8 36
Every 5th child in Bahawalnagar is not in school!

15. What are children learning in
Quality Education?
What are children learning in
schools?

16. LEARNING LEVEL - URDU
21% Children in class 5 cannot read story (text of class 2) . In other words, 21% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

17. LEARNING LEVEL – URDU (Ranking)
Bahawalnagar is at 3th position in district ranking (URDU)!
DISTRICT
% Children who can read URDU Stories in Class 5
RANK
Bahawalnager
78.9 3
Bahawalpur
77.3 4
Rahim Yar Khan
67.8 22

18. ENGLISH
35% Children in class 5 cannot read sentences (text of class 2) . In other words, 35% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

19. ENGLISH (Ranking)
Bahawalnagar is at 17th position in district ranking (English)!
DISTRICT
% Children who can read English sentences
In Class 5
RANK
Bahawalpur
74.7 5
Bahawalnager
65.3 17
Rahim Yar Khan
62.1 19

20. MATH
33% Children in class 5 cannot do division (3 digits by 1 digit) . In other words, 33% children are behind 2 classes with respect to their competency level in math

21. MATH (Ranking)
Bahawalnagar is at 9th position in district ranking (MATH)!
DISTRICT
% Children who can do 3 Digits Division
in Class 5
RANK
Bahawalnagar
67.0 9
Bahawalpur
53.6 20
Rahim Yar Khan
52.5 23

22. RANKING OF DISTT. Bahawalnagar (Summary)
Sr. No.
Indicator %
Rank 1
Out of School Children
20.5 27 2
Urdu Readings
78.9 3
English Readings
65.3 17 4
Arithmetic learning
67.0 9

23. LEARNING LEVELS - PUBLIC vs. PVT SCHOOLS
Comparing Learning Levels of Private and Public Schools
74% of class 5 students in Public Schools and 100% in Pvt. Schools can read story in Urdu.
66% of Class 5 students in Public Schools while 53% in Pvt. Schools can read sentences in English.
Totally 62% of Class 5 students in Public while 87% in Pvt. Schools can do 3 digits division

24. Private Supplementary Tuition?
Class-wise % children attending paid tuition
Type I II
III IV V VI
VII
VIII IX X
Govt.
4.0
2.8
7.0
13.0
9.5
14.9
11.1
13.2
8.7
24.1
Pvt.
20.0
36.4
24.0
55.0
17.6
11.8
27.3
33.3
16.7
25.0
26% Children from Pvt. And 7% Children from Public Schools are attending Paid Tuition.

25. Basic Facilities in Govt. Primary Schools

26. Attendance in Government Schools

27. What are children learning in
Bahawalnagar schools?
Bahawalnagar when compared to all the districts of Punjab the learning levels are not good in English.
Bahawalnagar comes in the Top 20 in learning levels in these subjects.

28. Parental Education An important factor that influences learning levels
Only 28% Mothers have completed primary education in Bahawalnagar

29. How can ASER 2012 inform the planning, drafting, resourcing and implementation of 25-A?
ASER can help assess education with respect to :
Quality
Availability/Access
Equity
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.
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
Linking the ASER information to national data and GMR /UN Human Development Reports /others in the run up to 2015 & post debates
Milestone achievement:“The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2012”

30. Discussion

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