Student Flow at Primary Level - DISE

56 Student Flow at Primary LevelMadhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal is quite wideand significant.Internal Efficiency of Primary Education SystemThe flow rates presented above fail to produce any information about theinternal efficiency of the educational system. In simple terms, efficiencycan be defined as an optimal relationship between investment in terms ofinput years and output in terms of number of graduates the system isproducing. The best system is one which has both the input and outputexactly the same, which is known as a perfect efficient system. If a childremains in the system for two years then it is considered that the systemhas invested two student years on that child. On the other hand, everysuccessful completer of a particular cycle is termed as the output, whichis also known as the ‘graduate’.By using the following assumptions, the Reconstructed Cohort Method isused to obtain indicators of internal efficiency of an education system.Input-Output Ratio, Coefficient of Efficiency and Input per Graduate (interms of years), have been presented for which two years enrolment andone year repeaters data in the current year are used. Coefficient ofEfficiency is defined as the ratio of actual number of pupil-years to theideal number of pupil-years. Ratio closer to one means better internalefficiency. The input-output ratio is simply the inverse of coefficient ofefficiency, and is equal to years put in per graduate divided by five whichis length of the primary cycle. The assumptions used are as follows:lllThe promotion, repetition and drop-out rates presented above (basedon DISE 2004-05 and 2005-06 data) would remain constant throughoutthe evolution of the cohort;A student would not be allowed to continue in the system after he/she has repeated for three times; thereafter, he/she will either leavethe system or would be promoted to the next higher grade; andNo students other than the original ones would be allowed to enterthe cycle in between the system.The coefficient of efficiency presented above reveals that the primaryeducation system is efficient to the tune of only 62.40 percent. There is,therefore, much scope for further improvement as about 38 percent ofthe total resources are just going waste. In a few big states (Table 27),such as Bihar (51.50 percent), Uttar Pradesh (44.78 percent) and Rajasthan(53.18 percent), the coefficient of efficiency obtained is much lower thanthe average of all states. Much of the resources in these states are going