THE STATE OF LEARNING IN BANGLADESH - A PILOT STUDY

The structure of the report is as follows: The data and methodology are described in section 2, which also discusses the development and application of the test instrument. [...] In section 3, the study's findings and caveats/learning from the pilot are presented, along with a description of the sample selection, composition, characteristics, as well as the outcomes of the learning assessment. [...] Although the original ASER tools examine the child at the story level before regressing to the paragraph, word, and letter levels (Mutum and Banerjee, 2015), we opted to begin testing at the word level (Level 2 for both Bangla and English) before progressing to the paragraph (Level 3) and story levels (Level 4). [...] While the ASER test measures the core reading and numeracy skills of children 11 between the ages of 5 and 16, we were also interested in tracking the enrollment and attendance status of persons between the ages of 17 and 18. [...] Overall N:632; N for school types in this graph:573 (Excluding the students from other schools as the number of observations is very little); Public:220; Private:252;Madrasa:101; Other schools comprise of NGO-run schools and vocational institutions: N=6 Further analysis by age group and school reveals that, regardless of the type of school attended, majority of the primary level students are at be.