The National Achievement Survey (NAS) for schools in Meghalaya has started from November 12.
The NAS is being held across the country to assess the learning interruptions and new learning during the Covid-19 pandemic and help to take remedial measures.
The instrument development, testing, finalisation of the test items, sampling of the schools etc has been done by NCERT.
NAS is being conducted in Language, Mathematics and EVS for class 3 and class 5; Language, Mathematics, Science and Social Science for class 8 and Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and English for class 10.
In Meghalaya, the test is being conducted in English, Khasi and Garo languages.
The actual administration of the test in the sampled schools will be done by CBSE in collaboration with the respective states and union territories.
NAS 2021 will cover the entire spectrum of schools such as government schools, government aided schools and private schools across the country. Nearly 1.23 lakh schools and 38 lakh students in 733 districts across 36 states and union territories will be covered in the NAS 2021.
For smooth and fair conduct of the survey, field investigators, observers, district level coordinators and district nodal officers besides State nodal officers in each State and union territory have been appointed.
Also, education board representatives have been appointed in the districts for monitoring overall functioning and ensuring fair conduct of the survey. All the personnel have been provided extensive training regarding their roles and responsibilities.
The State and district report cards for both elementary and secondary level for NAS 2021 will be released and placed in public domain.
The Government of India has been implementing a rolling programme of sample based National Achievement Survey (NAS) aimed at classes 3, 5, 8 and 10 with a cycle period of three years.
The last NAS was held on November 13, 2017 for assessing the competencies developed by the children at the classes 3, 5 and 8.
