GES, NGO train teachers in assessing pupils

Kasseh, July 18, GNA - A day's workshop aimed at educating heads of basic schools and their assistants on the modern methodology of assessing pupils' academic performance in the classroom has ended at Kasseh, in the Dangme East District.

The District Office of the Ghana Education Service and an International NGO "USAIP" organized it.

The facilitator of the workshop, Madam Bertha Nimako, said the "school performance monitoring test needed to be replaced with the basic education comprehensive assessment system."

This is an improved assessment system for primary schools to ascertain pupils' academic performance.

This involves the writing of three types of examination that would be managed by the Assessment Unit of the Curriculum and Research Development Division of the GES.

She said only a sample of schools in classes three and six would be allowed to participate in the test and the result would be made available in every district particularly in the deprived area. Reacting to complain that young male teachers were making the girls pregnant, the District Education Director, Mrs Regina Comfort Ametame, said the GES would deal drastically with such culprits. She said the situation had assumed an alarming rate and that if care was not taken education of the girl child in the area would be difficult.