According to a research conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, Tamil Nadu has the largest number of students who lack basic numeracy skills, followed by Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, and Gujarat (NCERT).
At least 37% of Class 3 students are classified as having “learners have limited knowledge and skills and they can partially complete basic grade-level tasks”, according to the report.
Children from West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Bihar, on the other hand, have either sufficient knowledge and competence or have gained superior knowledge and skill and can perform complicated grade-level activities. This was reported in the NCERT’s national report on benchmarking for “oral reading fluency with reading comprehension and numeracy 2022″ conducted by the NCERT. 2022” conducted by the NCERT.
The survey also found that in eight languages, more than a quarter of Class 3 children tested for oral reading performed below the global minimum proficiency. 42 percent of Tamil students lack basic reading skills, with boys reading 16 words per minute correctly and girls reading 18 on average.
The highest degree of oral reading proficiency was displayed by children reading in Khasi, Bengali, Mizo, Punjabi, Hindi, and English. The study said that its goal was to give trustworthy and valid data about Class 3 pupils in order to determine what they are capable of performing in foundational reading and numeracy, as well as the level of learning outcomes accomplished.
Students were charged with number recognition, addition, and subtraction in numeracy. Overall, 11% of respondents were unable to complete the most basic grade-level tasks, whereas 37% partially completed basic grade-level tasks and 42% completely completed the task. Only 10% were discovered to have achieved excellent talents.
In July 2021, the Ministry of Education introduced the National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat as a national objective to enable all students at the end of Class 3 to achieve foundational skills by 2026-2027.
A large-scale ‘foundational learning study’ was launched jointly by the government and NCERT in March 2022 to strengthen children’s ‘foundational literacy and numeracy.’ According to this survey, the majority of pupils, 52%, had a score of 70 or higher, and 40% have a score of 70-83, indicating that these children “can successfully complete the most basic grade-level tasks”. 10% fall into the top category of 84 and above, indicating that they “can complete complex grade-level tasks” due to their superior knowledge and skill.
A test administrator tested a sample of children from Class 3 in a one-on-one situation, where each child answered a set of questions provided orally. Number identification, number discrimination, addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, fractions, and detecting patterns made up of numbers and shapes were all part of the test.