National Achievement Survey to be conducted in government, private schools on November 12 across the country

The survey aims to cover lakhs of children in more than 700 districts and through this, the NCERT plans to find out the learning skills of children and what changes are required in the curriculum post-COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) will conduct the National Assessment Survey (NAS) in government and private schools to check children's learning skills on November 12, 2021 across the country. The government of India has been implementing a rolling programme of sample-based National Achievement Survey (NAS) aimed at classes 3rd, 5th, 8th and 10th with a cycle period of three years. The last National Achievement Survey (NAS) was held on 13^th November 2017 for assessing the competencies developed by the children at the grade levels 3rd, 5th and 8th.

The survey aims to cover lakhs of children in more than 700 districts and through this, the NCERT plans to find out the learning skills of children and what changes are required in the curriculum post-COVID-19 pandemic.

The instrument development, testing, finalization of the test items, sampling of the schools etc. has been done by NCERT. However, the actual administration of the test in the sampled schools will be done by CBSE in collaboration with the respective states/UTs. NAS 2021 will cover the entire spectrum of schools i.e. Government Schools (Central Government and State Government), Government Aided Schools and Private schools across the country. 

It is expected that nearly 1.23 lakh schools and 38 lakh students in 733 districts across 36 States and UTs will be covered in the NAS 2021. NAS will be conducted in Language, Mathematics & EVS for class 3 & 5; Language, Mathematics, Science & Social Science for class 8 and Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and English for class 10.  The Test would be conducted in 22 mediums of instruction covering Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Mizo, Odiya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Garo, Khasi, Konkani, Nepali, Bhutia, and Lepcha.

For smooth and fair conduct of the survey, 1,82,488 Field Investigators, 1,23,729 Observers, 733 District Level Coordinators and District Nodal Officers separately and 36 State Nodal Officers in each State and UT, have been appointed. Also, 1500 Board Representatives have been appointed in the districts for monitoring overall functioning and ensuring fair conduct of the Survey. All the personnel has been provided extensive training regarding their roles and responsibilities.

A National Steering Committee has been constituted for the conduct of NAS headed by Chairman, CBSE. A Portal (https://nas.education.gov.in) has been launched to enable coordination with various key functionaries for smooth conduct of NAS 2021. State and District Report cards for both elementary and secondary level for NAS 2021 will be released and placed in the public domain.

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