The original article was published by Ideas for India
Rukmini Banerji and Wilima Wadhwa discuss the role that the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) played in remedying the gap in the data. They discuss three major findings from the survey on learning outcomes during the pandemic: although the proportion of children not enrolled in schools went up, the proportion of children enrolled in government schools increased, and most of them had access to digital learning materials due to an increase in smartphone coverage.
Read the full article and watch the interview published by Ideas for India: Tracking learning outcomes: ASER’s work through the pandemic