2.44pc students age level 16 don’t know all Bangla letters: Study
Staff Reporter :
About 2.44 per cent students in different classes’ age level five to 16 could not identify at least three Bangla letters a recent survey report revealed.
The study conducted by Wave Foundation with assistance of the Street Child UK.
The wave foundation launched the study findings on Tuesday at a city hotel in Dhaka.
Speakers in the event stressed over media role on achieving quality education in the country.
The same study also found that 90.24 per cent students from the same age level could read a story fluently but made about three pronunciation mistakes during the reading.
The officials from the Wave Foundation said they have conducted the survey in households so that their participators were divided in age level instead of classes.
It revealed also that the students in the same age level for the subject of English, 2.41 per cent could not identify at least three English letters, and 48.19 per cent of the students could read a story fluently with about three pronunciation mistakes.
For the subject maths- about 4.65 per cent students of the same level showed that they were actually at the beginner’s level, unable to identify all single digit numbers.
Meanwhile, in Class one, 18.3 per cent students could not identify any or at least three Bangla alphabets, while merely 4.26 per cent could read a story fluently with about three pronunciation mistakes.
Besides, in the same level, for the subject of English, 34.89 per cent of the students could not identify all the English letters.
As for the subject maths- 23.5 per cent Class one students could not identify all single digit numbers.
The survey funded by Oxfam between August 2022 and July 2023 among 1,533 students from 1760 households in 88 villages in two districts-Rajshahi and Khulna. Respondents were selected from 71 schools, and the composition of respondents was 782 girls with 751 boys.
The researchers said the study was conducted to assess the learning competency of students in three subjects-Bangla, English and maths of the students aged between five and 16 years.
They found competency variations among the respondents are closely linked to their family’s socio-economic condition, geographic locations of their homes and schools as well.
Mohsin Ali Executive Director of Wave Foundation, said measures from the government are essential to improve the students’ learning capacity, which includes deployment of quality teachers and arrangement of required learning facilities in all schools.
Street Child Bangladesh representative Imtiaz Ridoy said that they have conducted the study under the global Education Out Loud project that also conducted same study in Afghanistan, Nepal and Mayanmar as well with similar findings.
