NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
SURVEY-2021
National Achievement Survey (NAS)
is a nationally representative large-scale survey of students'
learning undertaken by the Ministry of Education, Government
of India. NAS gives a system level reflection on effectiveness
of school education. Findings help compare the performance
across spectrum and across population in order to find the
desirable direction for improvements.
National Achievement Survey-2021 is
scheduled on 12th November 2021. The National Council of
Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has developed the
Assessment Framework for gauging the competencies attained by
the students vis-a-vis learning outcomes. The Survey goes
beyond the scorecard and includes the background variables to
correlate student's performance in different learning outcomes
vis-a-vis contextual variables. This national level survey
would be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education
(CBSE) as Assessment Administrator for Grade 3, 5, 8 and 10
students of State Govt. schools, Govt. Aided schools, Private
Unaided recognized schools and Central Government schools. The
Survey will be conducted in a monitored environment in the
sampled schools. Sampling Design for NAS 2021 intends to
support the predefined and agreed objectives of the national
assessment, NAS 2021 intends to provide information of what
India's students know and can do in key grades and subjects at
national, state, district and school type. Selection of
sampled schools is based on UDISE+2019-20 data. Therefore, the
States, Districts used for drawing of the samples for NAS 2021
is exactly as per the UDISE+2019-20.
NAS findings would help diagnose
learning gaps of students and determine interventions required
in education policies, teaching practices and learning.
Through its diagnostic report cards, NAS findings help in
capacity building for teachers, officials involved in the
delivery of education. NAS 2021 would be a rich repository of
evidences and data points furthering the scope of research and
development. With this in view, NAS-2021 Portal has been
developed by NIC as a dynamic platform in consultation with
the NCERT, CBSE, UNICEF, DDG (Stats) and NITI Aayog under the
overall guidance of Ministry of Education, Government of
India. This portal would be a sustainable educational
management information system both for helping in smooth
conduct of NAS-2021 as well as for future decision-making
based on data analytics. The portal provides role-based
functionality and dashboard for managing the resources
(various functionaries involved in the conduct &
administration of NAS), activity and event monitoring,
capacity building, reporting & documentation, post NAS
analytical report in the customized formats.