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Wilima Wadhwa

ASER Centre
wilima.wadhwa@asercentre.org

Dr Wilima Wadhwa is a Director of ASER Centre. She has been associated with ASER since its inception in 2005. Dr Wadhwa earned her undergraduate degree, with Honors in Economics from Delhi University, M.A. degrees in Economics from Delhi University and University of California, and her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California. Dr Wadhwa has been published extensively and teaches statistics and econometrics at the University of California (Irvine), and the Indian Statistical Institute (New Delhi). She has also been a member of various government committees. Dr Wadhwa’s other research interests include development and economics of education.

Posts by Wilima Wadhwa

एएसईआर 2024: महामारी के बाद के सुधार से कहीं बेहतर

गत कई वर्षों की ही भाँति शिक्षा की वार्षिक स्थिति रिपोर्ट (एएसईआर) 2024 में भारत के लगभग सभी ग्रामीण जिलों से बच्चों की स्कूली शिक्षा की स्थिति, उनके पठन और अंकगणित के स्तर के बारे में रिपोर्ट प्रस्तु...

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ASER 2024: More than a post-pandemic recovery in learning

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024 reports on children’s schooling status and reading and arithmetic levels from almost all rural districts of India. In this post, Wilima Wadhwa, Dire...

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माता-पिता एवं शिक्षक के बीच सहयोग के माध्यम से आधारभूत शिक्षा को बढ़ावा देना

प्राथमिक विद्यालयों में नामांकन में प्रगति होने के बावजूद, ग्रामीण भारत में 50% से अधिक विद्यार्थी मूल साक्षरता हासिल करने में असफल रहते हैं, जबकि 5वीं कक्षा के अंत तक 44% विद्यार्थियों में अंकगणित कौ...

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Enhancing foundational learning through parent-teacher collaboration

Despite advancements in primary school enrolment, over 50% of pupils in rural India fail to achieve core literacy, while 44% lack numeracy skills at the end of grade 5. Based on a randomised experimen...

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Foundational learning outcomes: More recovery than loss

Sharing data from the recently released ASER 2022, Wilima Wadhwa discusses the trends in primary school enrollment and learning during the pandemic. Using data collected from Karnataka, Chhattisgarh a...

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Tracking learning outcomes: ASER’s work through the pandemic

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated lockdowns, schools quickly pivoted to online learning. However, there was limited information about whether children had access to learning m...

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Tracking learning outcomes: ASER’s work through the pandemic

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated lockdowns, schools quickly pivoted to online learning. However, there was limited information about whether children had access to learning m...

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कोविड-19 और मानसिक स्वास्थ्य: क्या बच्चे वापस स्कूल में जाने के लिए तैयार हैं?

कोविड-19 और मानसिक स्वास्थ्य' पर आयोजित की गई I4I ई-संगोष्ठी के पूर्व भाग में स्कूल बंद होने के कारण, विशेष रूप से हाशिए पर रहे और कमजोर समूहों से संबंधित बच्चों के मनोवैज्ञानिक स्वास्थ्य पर पड़ने वाले...

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Covid-19 and mental health: Are children ready to go back to school?

Previous parts of the I4I e-symposium on ‘Covid-19 and mental health’ have discussed the potential adverse effects of school closures on children’s psychological well-being – particularly thos...

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Covid-19 and schooling: 2020 experience and way forward

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic brought with it significant challenges for the education sector. On the one hand, closing schools meant imposing a heavy cost on a whole generation of students, and ...

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The early advantage: Learning levels in grade 1

According to ASER 2019, children in grade 1 of government schools in India lag behind private school children in both language and numeracy skills. In this post, Wilima Wadhwa explains that children i...

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School education in India: Equity in learning?

In recent years, the focus has shifted from enrolment to learning in school education in India. The debate has been centred on learning levels of children and whether they moved up or down, but what a...

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