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

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)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 23 district in 2012 compared to 14 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. 23 Districts Surveyed in KP

9. ASER Nowshera

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

11. Enrollment in Nowshera
% 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
49.1
33.8
1.8
0.1
12.2
2.9
100
11-13
57.9
23.5
2.3
0.0
10.6
5.7
14-16
51.9
11.8
15.9
18.7
6-16
52.1
25.4
1.9
12.7
7.8
79.5
20.5
By type
65.6
31.9
2.4
Every 5th child is out of school in Nowshera district

12. Enrollment in Nowshera

13. Enrollment in Nowshera

14. Enrollment (Ranking) Every 5th child in Nowshera is not in school!
DISTRICT
% OF OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
RANK
Swabi
9.6 7
Charsadha
10.3 10
Mardan
13.3 13
Peshawar
19.1 15
Nowshera
20.5 18
Every 5th child in Nowshera is not in school!

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

16. LEARNING LEVEL – Urdu/Pashto
58% Children in class 5 cannot read story (text of class 2) . In other words, 58% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

17. LEARNING LEVEL – Urdu/Pashto (Ranking)
Nowshera is at 14th position in district ranking (URDU)!
DISTRICT
% Children who can read URDU Stories in Class 5
RANK
Charsadha
77.3 1
Mardan
73.1 2
Swabi
58.2 4
Nowshera
41.9 14
Peshawar
26.6 22

18. ENGLISH
60% Children in class 5 cannot read sentences (text of class 2) . In other words, 60% children are behind 3 classes with respect to their competency level.

19. ENGLISH (Ranking)
Nowshera is at 18th position in district ranking (English)!
DISTRICT
% Children who can read English sentences
In Class 5
RANK
Mardan
80.5 1
Charsadha
71.2 3
Swabi
60.3 6
Nowshera
40.5 18
Peshawar 36 20

20. MATH
67% Children in class 5 cannot do division (3 digits by 1 digit) . In other words, 67% children are behind 2 classes with respect to their competency level in math

21. MATH (Ranking)
Nowshera is at 21st position in district ranking (MATH)!
DISTRICT
% Children who can do 3 Digits Division
in Class 5
RANK
Mardan
83.7 1
Charsadha
68.8 3
Swabi 49 8
Nowshera
33.3 21
Peshawar
29.1 22

22. RANKING OF DISTT. Nowshera (Summary)
Sr. No.
Indicator %
Rank 1
Out of School Children
20.5 18 2
Urdu Readings
41.9 14 3
English Readings
40.5 4
Arithmetic learning
33.3 21

23. LEARNING LEVELS - PUBLIC vs. PVT SCHOOLS
Comparing Learning Levels of Private and Public Schools
43% of class 5 students in Public Schools and 40% in Pvt. Schools can read story in Urdu.
37% of Class 5 students in Public Schools while 50% in Pvt. Schools can read sentences in English.
Totally 35% of Class 5 students in Public while 29% in Pvt. Schools can do 3 digits division

24. What are children learning in
Nowshera schools?
Nowshera when compared to all the districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa learning levels are poor especially in English and Math.
Nowshera comes in the last 5 districts in learning levels in these subjects.

25. Private Supplementary Tuition?
Class-wise % children attending paid tuition
Type I II
III IV V VI
VII
VIII IX X
Govt.
0.0
2.9
5.4
8.2
1.0
1.2
6.3
1.6
17.1
2.1
Pvt.
13.3
19.2
28.1
22.2
23.8
23.3
20.8
27.8
33.3
50.0
21% Children from Pvt. And 4% Children from Public Schools are attending Paid Tuition.

26. Parental Education An important factor that influences learning levels
Only 21% Mothers have completed primary education in Nowshera

27. Attendance in Government Schools

28. Basic Facilities in Government Schools (Primary)

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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