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Kerala volition instrumentality portion successful a one-on-one foundational learning survey (FLS) conducted by the Ministry of Education to gauge proficiency successful speechmaking and comprehension and numeracy arsenic portion of the NIPUN Bharat Mission.
NIPUN was launched by the Union authorities with the purpose of enabling each children astatine the extremity of people III to execute foundational learning standards by the twelvemonth 2026-27. The National Education Policy 2020 accords the highest precedence to accomplishment of foundational literacy and numeracy.
FLS 2025-26 volition beryllium conducted by the PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) nationalist appraisal centre towards the extremity of February to show whether people III students are connected way to execute foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) targets by 2025-26.
It volition besides way students’ advancement since a akin FLS was held successful 2022 to found speechmaking proficiency benchmarks for fluency and comprehension successful 20 Indian languages and proficiency benchmarks for numeracy.
The FLS 2025-26 volition place areas that request further absorption successful policy, interventions, and assets allocation by ensuring that the results tin beryllium benchmarked against the 2022 baseline.
It volition beryllium individually administered and students volition beryllium assessed successful skills specified arsenic oral connection comprehension/listening comprehension; phonological awareness; decoding missive and words; speechmaking and comprehension; oral speechmaking fluency with comprehension successful foundational literacy,
This time, the FLS volition see penning tasks to seizure a much holistic representation of students’ skills.
In foundational numeracy, skills successful fig identification; operations specified arsenic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; connection problems; measurements; fractions; patterns; and information handling volition beryllium assessed.
Unlike FLS 2022 successful which a OMR-based format was utilized by tract investigators to manually grounds pupil responses, this clip unafraid tablet-based applications volition beryllium utilised for real-time signaling and faster information processing.
FLS besides provides information to study connected Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.1.1 indicators astatine the planetary level. It volition align appraisal practices with planetary champion practices and benchmarks done argumentation linking.
Policy linking was done for FLS 2022 and the aforesaid benchmark volition beryllium utilized for FLS 2025-26 to alteration comparable reporting, tracking progress, and mounting learning targets, Samagra Shiksha Kerala officials said.
In 2022, 3,516 students from 380 schools successful Kerala had taken portion successful the FLS. The illustration size for the upcoming FLS is unclear astatine this constituent of time.
Unlike the PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan (National Achievement Survey) that monitors system-level learning outcomes astatine the extremity of assorted world stages mentioned successful the NEP (grades III, VI, and IX) and provides macro-level argumentation insights, FLS focusses connected people III and identifies circumstantial learning gaps successful foundational skills for aboriginal interventions.
