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Two acquisition experts person called for a strict interrogation of the Chief Examiner’s Report to find the origin of the wide nonaccomplishment of students successful this year’s Ghana Only Version of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates (SC).
They said erstwhile the weaknesses of students were identified successful the report, the indispensable interventions could beryllium enactment successful spot to reverse the nonaccomplishment complaint successful the WASSCE-SC.
They maintained that the study could besides beryllium utilized by teachers to hole final-year students for aboriginal examinations.
The educationists, who said this successful abstracted interviews with the Daily Graphic, are a Lecturer astatine the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), Ghana, Dr Peter Anti Partey , and the Executive Director of the Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare.
Performance
In the English Language insubstantial for this year’s WASSCE-SC, 289,673 (60 per cent) of the candidates scored betwixt A1-C6; 37,712 (8.18 per cent) others had D7; 39,091 (9.23 per cent) had E8, and 54,294 (12.86 per cent) had F9.
For Mathematics, 209,068 (48.73 per cent) had A1-C6; 52,991 (11.62 per cent) had D7; 52,145 (12.15 per cent) obtained E8, portion 114,872 (26.77 per cent) had F9.
In Integrated Science, 220,806 (57.74 per cent) candidates scored A1-C6; 54,580 (11.85 per cent) had D7; 45,783 (11.79 per cent) recorded E8, portion 61,243 (16.05 per cent) obtained F9.
Another halfway subject, Social Studies, had 248,538 (55.82 per cent) candidates scoring A1-C6, with 33,670 (7.38 per cent) candidates signaling D7, portion 40,608 (9.12 per cent) had E8, and 122,449 (27.50 per cent) settled for F9.
Individual schools
Commenting connected the 2025 WASSCE-SC results, Dr Partey said, beyond the main examiner’s report, determination was besides the request to wage attraction to idiosyncratic schoolhouse performances successful trying to find a solution to the problem.
He said from present onwards, determination was the request for “us to alteration the people of our discussion”.
Irrespective of the information that the nationalist mean looks bad, immoderate of the schools scored good successful presumption of idiosyncratic schoolhouse performances, helium stated.
“So if we truly privation to cognize what went wrong, we request to spell to idiosyncratic schools and spot those that did not execute well.
Those whose walk complaint was let’s accidental 20 per cent, 15 per cent, 10 per cent and beneath — let’s spell to these schools and find retired what truly their challenges are,” helium said.
Dr Partey said looking astatine Core Mathematics, for instance, transportation and instructional quality, among others, are critical.
He said erstwhile that was done, the Ministry of Education could plan circumstantial interventions for idiosyncratic schools wherever teachers needed assistance successful bid to amended their pedagogy.
Interventions
“These targeted interventions would alteration these schools that are not performing good to get the needed attention, and by that we are apt to spot an betterment successful their show successful the coming year”.
“What I deliberation should hap is that these discussions should pb to reforms,” helium emphasised.
Dr Partey said determination was a request to necktie the Minister of Education’s circumstantial outputs, and successful truthful doing, it should beryllium capable to archer Ghanaians what happened successful idiosyncratic schools and the reasons wherefore definite schools had zero, 5 and 2 per cent successful the examination.
“What are the challenges of these idiosyncratic schools?
When we spell by that approach, we are helping the children and not a person who wants to people governmental points, truthful that the ministry would present transmission their energies and resources towards improving the low-performing school,” helium said.
For his part, Mr Asare said Mathematics and Social Studies did not look good, but the 2 different halfway subjects — Integrated Science and English Language — did not depart from the mean trend.
Such a situation, helium said, meant determination was a request to spell down to the taxable study of the main examiner to find retired the difficulties candidates faced successful answering the questions.
Diagnosis
“So the archetypal happening we request to bash is to hold for the main examiner’s report.
Once it is ready, we tin bash a diagnosis of what the gaps are and based connected that, the Ghana Education Service (GES) could usage that to bash its interventions,” helium said.
He said determination was a request to bash a batch of nationalist acquisition to guarantee behavioural alteration targeted astatine students to beryllium independent-minded truthful arsenic to forestall introspection malpractice, 1 of which
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