Foundational Learning Assessment: India
About LWCF's Foundational Learning Assessment Initiative in India
QUICK FACTS
- LOCATION: Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, India
- SUPPORTED BY LWCF SINCE: 2025
- CHILDREN IMPACTED TO DATE: 50
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
There have been ongoing efforts to improve basic learning outcomes in several Adivasi villages in rural Balaghat. However, there remains a need for an assessment tool that is simple to use and will be an accurate assessment of progress for children up to grade 5. The tool should take into account local culture and demographics in order to provide teachers with information to drive strategies for instruction based on student needs.
Working with Collective Thought Consultancy and its founder, Chandan Sarma, funding from LWCF will help to develop an instrument to assess core competencies in language, numeracy, comprehension, and socio-emotional learning. This process includes collecting case studies from diverse learning environments, identifying key learning indicators based on analysis of the case studies and national and international frameworks, and developing an instrument that is adaptable, scalable, and usable by frontline staff in low-resource settings.
LWCF is proud to be able to support the educational progress children in a marginalized community in rural India.
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- Provide a simple, adaptable, and field-friendly assessment tool.
- Identify learning gaps and design remedial activities.
- Enable monitoring across children, grades, and time.
- Ensure assessment is child-centered, easy to administer, and inclusive.
The project is focused on the children in the Adivasi villages where education is seen as the primary way out of the poverty that is rampant in their community. The Adivasi people (India’s native people) are chronically underserved, particularly in the eduction of their children. The children are being provided supplemental education by project organizers and this project is designed to accurately identify areas of educational need through well crafted assessment tools and specific remediation strategies and activities.
The project is in it’s first phase so outcomes, successes and milestones are not yet determined.
LWCF is always looking for ways to support children in desperate situations. Through a connection with Chandan Sarma in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh region in India, LWCF founder Sherry Fine and board member Sue Abrams visited Adavasi villages to assess needs and determine whether there were projects that would fit within our mission and our funding capacity. Chandan has founded an after school program to address the limited government education programs for the children in the villages. It was clear from our visit that there is a cadre of committed, compassionate and determined teachers working to give the children the educational support they need to succeed and use their education to lift their families out of poverty. This project, which meets LWCF criteria for funding, will give the teachers a neccessary tool to determine students’ level and create appropriate lessons for progress.
Impoverished & underserved children in Adivasi villages.
- Collective Thought Consultancy
