New Delhi, April 11 -- The national assessment centre under the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), PARAKH, is conducting one-on-one, tablet-based assessments of Class 3 students under the Foundational Learning Study (FLS) 2026, covering key skills such as comprehension, oral reading fluency and basic mathematics, with data collection expected to conclude by May-June 2026, officials said.

Officials said that around 10,000 trained field investigators from District Institute of Education and Training (DIETs) are conducting FLS 2026 in a phased manner in 20 languages "using tablets in a one-on-one mode." More than 1,00,000 Class 3 students across 10,000 government, government-aided and private schools in 776 distr...