We look forward to more cooperation from stakeholders: SCERT official
Sheikh Gulzar
Ahmad
Saturday 27 November 2021
SCERT’s 2-Day Workshop on Teacher Training Manual Concludes
JKASW, SCERT Team Up On Theme Based Education Workshop
Most recommended method of teaching to young children: Expert
Farooq Shah
Sunday 14 November 2021
SCERT’s Two-Day Workshop On Sustainable Development Goals Concludes
Experts deliberate on NCERT’s proposed questionnaire on SDG 4.7
Farooq Shah
SRINAGAR: A two-day workshop on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.7 organized by the Education Planning Monitoring and Management (EPM&M) wing of the State Institute of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Kashmir Division, concluded here on Saturday.
The SCERT had invited scores of academicians for different DIETs, law officers and former civil servants to deliberate on a proposed questionnaire framed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi.
Underlining the objectives of the workshop, Director SCERT, Prof Veena Pandita said the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been tasked with the implementation of the SDG 4.7 and has sought a status report from all the States/UTs of India in this regard.
“There are 17 SDGs which require an urgent call for action by all countries including India, the immediate target of achieving these goals being 2030,” she said. “Goal 4, particularly of these 17 SDGs, aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”
Prof Pandita hailed the efforts of former Director School Education, Mohammad Rafi, who, with his knowledge and expertise, helped the experts in arriving at right conclusions during the deliberations on the subject.
Describing the workshop a ‘lively’ event, Rafi appreciated the perspectives presented by the experts.
“Exchange of thought, of insights and experiences helped a closer appreciation and an informed assessment of challenges in promoting SDGs across cultures and communities,” he said. “The mainstay of inter-session remained legal and policy framework, approaches and interventions, tools and techniques, research methodologies etc. that can potentially help towards a more effective handling of SDGs.”
Dr Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, Nodal Officer, School Leadership Academy (SLA), SCERT, set the perspective of the workshop by sharing a useful presentation on SDG 4.7 underlining its many different operational areas.
Earlier, Dr Jan Mudasir Gul, Academic Officer, Educational Research Survey and Assessment (ERSA) wing of the SCERT distributed topics and the questionnaire among the groups formed during the workshop. He provided the guidelines for the presentations and submitting of responses to the questionnaires by the group leaders.
Friday 12 November 2021
Director SCERT Lauds Stakeholders On Successful Conduct Of NAS 2021
Farooq Shah
SRINAGAR: Tens of thousands of students across all the 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir Friday participated in the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 for the classes 3, 5, 8 and 10.
The survey, which was initiated by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, was conducted in all the 733 districts across India. The Ministry had hired the services of the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) to complete the exercise.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the CBSE collaborated with the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) to conduct the survey.
On Saturday, November 6, the Ministry had tweeted that it will be conducting the National Achievement Survey next week.
“National Achievement Survey (NAS) is a nation-wide, sample-based survey to assess learning achievement of students, undertaken by @EduMinOfIndia. 1.23 lakh schools in 733 districts across 36 States/UTs to participate in #NAS2021 on 12th Nov, 2021,” the Ministry’s tweet read.
(Tweet Link: https://twitter.com/EduMinOfIndia/status/1456874189172797447?s=20)
Lauding the role of all those involved in the survey, Director SCERT, Prof Veena Pandita, said the “gigantic” task could have not been possible without their sincere and tireless efforts.
“I’d like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Director School Education Jammu, Director School Education Kashmir, Project Director Samagra Shiksha, chief education officers and the SCERT team for their efforts to make this survey a success,” Prof Pandita said. “All this would have not been possible without the ever sincere and dedicated efforts of our coordinators at the district level, representatives from the CBSE, principals of the DIETs, field investigators and observers.”
She also thanked Principal Secretary, School Education, B K Singh, for extending his support to the exercise.
Prior to the start of the survey this morning, Singh had extended his best wishes to the participating students in the survey.
“Best wishes to all students appearing in NAS and hope officials engaged in NAS will have great success in free and fair NAS, setting as an example for others,” said his official Twitter handle.
(Tweet Link: https://twitter.com/SchoolEduJK/status/1459004284448636933?s=20)
Describing the importance of NAS 2021, Prof Pandita said the survey will aid educational planners, policy makers and researchers in understanding the interdependence of assessment, pedagogical process and learning outcome in improving the quality of education.
“NAS 2021 will help us in the systematic understanding of the consequences that prolonged closure of schools has had on students' learning,” Prof Pandita said. “Results will help us to make out the students’ performance in different learning outcomes vis-à-vis the contextual variables.”
SCERT had issued a string of instructions in this regard to conduct the survey in a methodical manner. The heads of District Institutes of Education and Trainings (DIETs) had been nominated as district nodal officers (DNOs) who, in turn, were authorized to appoint field investigators (FIs).
The field investigators conducted the sampling of sections and students in the assigned grade as per the procedure and completed other responsibilities in association with the observers.
“The number of FI’s and observers appointed for the survey had been made available on the DNO's login on the NAS portal,” an SCERT official said.
He said the SCERT had entrusted all the school heads of sampled schools— government as well as private— to ensure the participation of students in the survey.
“All the staff of sampled schools were fully Covid-vaccinated with strict instructions to abide by all the necessary protocols,” he informed.
The last NAS was held on November 13, 2017 for assessing the competencies of children at the grade levels 3, 5, 8 and 10, however, the next round scheduled in 2020, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, could not be held due to the school closures.
Monday 1 November 2021
CBSE, SCERT To Collaborate On NAS On November 12
Survey to be held in all the 733 districts across India
Farooq Shah
SRINAGAR: The Central Board of School Education (CBSE) and State
Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Jammu and Kashmir, are
set to collaborate on conducting a sample based National Achievement Survey
(NAS) for classes 3, 5, 8 and 10 in J&K on November 12.
The CBSE will conduct the survey on behalf of the Education Ministry in
all the 733 districts across the country.
The survey is a competency based national-level large scale assessment,
conducted with an aim of providing information about the learning achievement
of students to have a system level reflection on effectiveness of school
education in the country.
She said the prolonged school closure in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic
has affected students' learning in terms of their socio-emotional and cognitive
development in more ways than one.
“NAS 2021 will help us in the
systematic understanding of the consequences that prolonged closure of schools
has had on students' learning,” Prof Pandita said. “Results will help us to
make out the students’ performance in different learning outcomes vis-à-vis the
contextual variables.”
SCERT has issued a string of instructions in this regard to hold the
survey in a methodical manner. The heads of District Institutes of Education
and Trainings (DIETs) have been nominated as district nodal officers (DNOs)
who, in turn, have been authorised to appoint field investigators (FIs).
The field investigators will carry out sampling of sections and
students in the assigned grade as per the procedure and complete other
responsibilities in association with the observers.
“The number of FI’s to be
appointed has been made available on the DNO's login on the NAS portal,” an
SCERT official said. “The DNOs will issue instructions relating to the conduct
of the survey, set protocols, issue training schedules and ensure mandatory
reporting for duty and attending the trainings arranged by the NAS Cell, CBSE
HQ/DLC.”
He said the SCERT has entrusted all the school heads of sampled
schools— government as well as private— to ensure the participation of students
in the survey on November 12.
“All the staff of sampled
schools shall be fully Covid-vaccinated with strict instructions to abide by
all the necessary protocols,” he said.
Pertinently, the SCERT on September 30 conducted a survey of classes 3,
5 and 8 aimed at identifying gaps in the students’ learning caused due the
Covid-19 pandemic.
“The survey, which was conducted
across all the districts of J&K UT, has acted as a dress-rehearsal for the
ensuing NAS,” the official said. “Since the survey was conducted on similar
lines as laid out in the NAS, the task ahead has relatively been made easy.”
To familiarise the students with the assessment format, the SCERT
distributed unused question booklets of the survey among the students from time
to time, he said.
The last NAS was held in 2017/2018 for assessing the competencies of
children at the grade levels 3, 5, 8 and 10, however, the next round scheduled
in 2020 could not be held due to the school closures.
Media Links:
1.https://indiaeducationdiary.in/cbse-scert-to-collaborate-on-nas-survey-to-be-held-in-all-733-districts-across-india/
2.https://kashmirobserver.net/2021/10/31/cbse-scert-to-collaborate-on-nas-on-november-12/
3.https://sites4students.com/cbse-scert-to-collaborate-on-nas-a-survey-will-be-carried-out-in-the-733-districts-of-india/
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