Lok Sabha Question No. 1211 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-19
Subject: Programme for International Students Assessment
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Sanjay Sadashivrao Mandlik, Bidyut Baran Mahato, Sudheer Gupta, Shrirang Appa Barne

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1211 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.09.2020

## Programme for International Students Assessment

## 1211.  SHRI SANJAY SADASHIVRAO MANDLIK:

SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO:

SHRI SUDHEER GUPTA:

SHRI SHRIRANG APPA BARNE:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether India has decided to participate in Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), 2021 and if so, the details thereof;
- (b)  whether  the  Government  has  conducted  any  field  trial  for  the  same  and  if  so,  the  details thereof;
- (c) the details of schools across the country from which are likely to represent the country in the PISA, 2021;
- (d) whether the Government has conducted tests like the programme for PISA which evaluates school  students  scholastic  performance  in  Math,  science  and  reading  and  if  so,  the  details thereof; and
- (e) whether the Government has also sent a team to Paris to understand the whole examination process of PISA and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF EDUCATION (SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

- (a) & (b)   The Government of India has decided to participate in the Programme for International Students  Assessment  (PISA)  2021  to  be conducted  by  the Organization  for  Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Due to Covid-19 pandemic, PISA Main Survey (MS) stands postponed by one year to 2022 with a Field Trial (FT) in 2021, by OECD.

(c) The schools in Union Territory of Chandigarh, as well as the Kendriya Vidyalaya (KVs) and Navodaya Vidyalaya (NVs) school systems would participate in the  PISA 2022 exercise. (d) India has developed its own student assessment system called the National Achievement Survey (NAS), which is independently conducted by NCERT across the country. The NAS 2017 was conducted on 13th November, 2017 through which the learning levels of around 22 lakh students of Classes III, V and VIII from 1.10 lakh schools across 701 districts in all 36 States and UTs were assessed. This competency based assessment was based on the  Learning Outcomes developed  by  the  National  Council  of  Educational  Research  and  Training  (NCERT)  for  all subjects  from  Grades  I  to  VIII.  The  Students  of  Classes  III  and  V  are  assessed  on  Reading Comprehension, Mathematics and Environmental Studies and Class VIII students are assessed on Language, Maths, Science and Social Science. Similarly, National Achievement Survey for Class X was also conducted throughout the country on February 05, 2018 in government, government aided and private schools. The learning levels of 1.5 million students in 44,304 schools across 610 districts in 34 States and UTs were assessed, in  5  subject  areas  of  English,  Mathematics,  Science,  Social  Science  and  Modern  Indian

Language (MIL).

(e) A delegation visited the OECD, Paris to participate in an Orientation Programme on PISA held during October 8-9, 2018 which included discussions on the overall PISA design, the PISA for  schools  as  a  capacity  building  exercise,  contextualisation  of  test  items  and  different questionnaires etc.

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