Odisha students have been performing well in different subjects and the grades achieved by some of them are even better than the national average, said School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash here on Friday.
Addressing participants of a two-day workshop on the National Achievement Survey (NAS) organised by the Directorate of Teacher Education, State Council of Educational Research and Training in association with the UNICEF, the Minister highlighted the collaborative effort of DIETs and field-level functionaries in different districts to enhance the quality education in the State.
Former Director, NCERT Hrushikesh Senapati highlighted the results of NAS-2021 along with strategies to be taken up. Chief of Office, UNICEF Odisha Monika Nielsen stressed the need for district, block and cluster-level planning.
State Project Director Anupam Saha assured improvement in classroom activities with the help of teachers on the basis of the survey results.
Director, TE and SCERT Raghuram R Iyer highlighted the need to undertake different activities at zonal and district levels and at school points to enhance the learning outcome of students.
The NAS 2021-Odisha Report card was launched for wider publicity on the first day of the workshop. NAS 2021 was held on November 12, 2021 and grades of students of Classes-III, V, VIII and X of Government schools (State and Central), Government-aided schools along with private schools were taken into consideration. From Odisha, 5,479 schools, 25,143 teachers and 1,58,611 students participated in the survey.
The workshop, which involved a large-scale survey of students’ learning undertaken by the Union Ministry of Education and gave a system lever reflection on effectiveness of school education, concluded on Saturday.