Impact of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha AbhiyAn in Kolkata from parents’ point of view

Quality is the core of education and it is important for standardization of construction of secondary education in urban area. The ultimate goal of the integration of urban education is to pursuit quality urban education. Based on analyzing the related policy basis, the existing assessment models of urban educational quality in secondary schools are very much content dependent and the assessment index system of the standard of urban educational quality in secondary schools needs to be addressed. Since the constitution of India was adopted in 1950, the focus of education was concentrated on elementary education. But despite significance progress in every sphere of elementary education, the goal to achieve universalization of elementary enrolment is still a far distant delusion. However, for providing quality and meaningful education to all children in age group of 14–16 years for secondary schools, 16–18 years of age for higher secondary school, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) has been commenced as a comprehensive and integrated flagship programme. This study analyses the roles, responsibilities and functions of parents in educating of their children and to assess the impact of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan in the district like Kolkata. The present study has been conducted in Kolkata, a highly dense population as well as highest literate district of the state of West Bengal. To depict the perception about Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan among the guardian's of class IX and X students in term of 19 variables viz. Age (X₁), Educational qualification (X₂), profession (X₃), family size (X₄), school going children in family (X₅), children of class IX and X in family (X₆), necessity of private tuition (X₇), reasons behind tuition (X₈), additional boost up by RMSA (X₉), drawback of present secondary education system (X₁₀), remedial measures of secondary education (X₁₁), social awareness (X₁₂), social involvement (X₁₃), Upliftment through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (X₁₄), Success of SSA (X₁₅), Role of Mid-Day Meal (MDM) (X₁₆), Necessity of MDM for Secondary level (X₁₇), Successful execution of MDM (X₁₈) were found to bear substantial impact on the level of perception on RMSA (Y) of the guardian of students. This study is to construct a scientific, effective and very operational statistical model to analyses the roles, responsibilities and functions of parents in the educational process of their children with the Correlation Coefficient, Multiple and Step down Regression Analysis, and Discriminant Analysis to measure the development status of their responsibilities through the example calculation. This study confirms that the assessment model has one of the good diagnostic functions. According to the actual functions of the assessment model, this study puts forward some corresponding suggestions also.