The Ministry of Education is to introduce a new National Standardised Test to evaluate learning outcomes at the primary school level.
The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum said the National Standardised Test will be administered for the first time this year to all Primary Four students across the country.
Addressing a press briefing today in Accra, Dr Adutwum the test will assess whether students can read or not.
He said the test will also generate reports which will detail the challenges facing the education system across the country in the areas of literacy and mathematics.
The students will also be tested in Primary Five and Primary Six.
"...The World Bank talks about learning poverty and they talk about the fact that by year 10, 53% of students in various countries cannot read for understanding and Ghana is not an exception," Dr Adutwum said.
"Our Human Capital Index in 0.44, so that is why the President (Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo) says transform the space, so transforming of the space means that all fourth graders (Primary Four students) this year are going to be tested across the length and breadth of this country, every one of them.
"So that we will see the challenges that are confronting us as a nation and then we will give them one year during the fifth grade or primary five to do an intervention. We will test them again in primary six, the following year, we are even going to begin from primary two...".
He said reports generated from the test in mathematics and literacy will be given to every single parent in the country to monitor the progress of their wards. It will also be available on a web-based dashboard for the general public to access.
Source: graphic.com.gh
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There you go! NDC in their diverse diabolic form. What is the confusion about testing school pupils in reading and comprehension? Just to enable you to improve the system to achieve better results? It had always been the tradition of the UP fraternity to create better and equal opportunities for all. I remember quite vividly the campaign slogan of Prof. K.A. Busia and I quote: 'Last Friday I went to my hometown Wanchi, and some young men had organized themselves saying, for good drinking water, progress! for good education, progress! We of the progress party believe in equal opportunity. What I'm driving at is here the consistency. Consistency is born out of tradition, philosophy, and conviction. That is the key and the way forward. The NDC, the offspring of the PNDC, has a long way to go. Then, the PNDC was murderous and militant, and thus, just feeding or propagating on empty political polemics like probity and accountability is in no measure the way forward.
The government is confused. This is a collapsed education system
Let us wait to hear what the NDC is going to say here. I doubt if the NDC can make any input. It is just too advance and academic for their taste. Anyway, one doesn't need to know it all, but it is just worthwhile keeping mute than bastardizing and reading evil into everything for opposing sake. For God's sake, competence is at work.
@Vincent, can you please elaborate on your point as being unnecessary. Just stating your position is not enough. My take is that, it’s a global initiative to ensure Gh is part of global education standard. We need to catch up and be abreast to the global standard. Can’t continue with the old system with a much required upgrade. Let’s embrace change as a people and have a constructive criticism rather than opposing good initiatives in my humble opinion. My two cents(pesewas) on this matter.
Mr minister I don't think this is necessary