Sub: School Education - SCERT AP - Baseline Assessment - School Remedial Teaching Programme - Certain guidelines issued.
Ref:
1. This office proce. R.C.No. ESE02/6e6/2022-SCERT Date:25/06/2022.
2. Discussions with Advisor, Infra, Director coordination, Director, SIEMAT, Director, SCERT and Pratham team.
To initiate the remedial teaching during the initial days of the academic year, it is proposed to assess the standards of the student in respect of basics in languages and mathematics to take necessary remedies for bridging to their next level learning for ensuring Foundational Literacy and Numeracy among all students. In this regard it is proposed to conduct a baseline assessment to all students who are studying in government managed schools.
In the reference 2nd cited, it is proposed to conduct the baseline assessment on 22nd July 2022 with the testing tools suggested by Pratham Foundation which is assessing the leaning outcomes of students across the country every year and publishing their reports as Annual Status of Education Report (ASER). The answer-scripts and other material should be submitted to the state on or before 26th July 2022.
Therefore, all the District Educational Officers in the state are requested to conduct the baselines assessment in all government managed schools for all students who are studying classes 2 to 10 on 22nd July 2022 without This assessment shall be administered by the Additional Project Coordinators of concerned districts in coordination with the Secretaries of DCEBs duly meeting the expenditure as suggested by the State Project Coordinator, Samagra Shihsha.
- Instructions booklet (4 pages) @ one per teacher
- Testing tools with pen and paper (4 pages) @ one per student (10 different sets covering all students)
- Oral testing tool (5 pages) @ one per teacher (2 different sets covering all teachers)
All the District Educational Officers are further informed that certain guidelines and action plan were issued in the reference 1st cited for conducting remedial teaching and the same should be followed until the baseline assessment results are Based on this baseline assessment results the further action plan will be communicated accordingly
The State Project Director, Samagra Shihsha, AP is requested to meet the said expenditure from the available funds preferably FLN funds and to instruct the Additional Project Coordinators to administer the baseline assessment as per the guidelines. Further she is requested to coordinate with Pratham Foundation for obtaining the assessment results and disseminate the analytics through the technology partners of school
The Director, SCERT, AP is requested to prepare the assessment question papers as per the tools suggested by Pratham Foundation and submit to the State Project Director, Samagra Shihsha for printing and supply of the question papers through the APCs concerned. Further, he is directed to formulate the plan of action based on the analysis of baseline assessment and to communicate the same to all schools for ensuring Foundational Literacy and Numeracy among all students.
