National Achievement Survey of Class III - Achievement Highlights

Abstract

National Achievement Surveys (NAS) are the national assessment of what students 
know and can do in various subjects at elementary and secondary education in India. The 
National Policy on Education, 1986 emphasises periodical Achievement Surveys at different 
stages of school education as a means to assess the health of the education system. To know the 
impact of the various inputs provided to the system through different regional and national 
schemes, a study of class III students‟ achievement level in Mathematics and Language has been 
conducted. The researcher is presenting achievement of students in Mathematics and Language 
and the variations in gender wise and location wise performance based on the data collected 
through achievement tests administered to 1,04,374 students, questionnaires to 7,046 schools 
covering 298 districts of 34 States and Union Territories of India.