Mr George Yaw Boateng (right), the Programme Coordinator, presenting a certificate to Mrs Alice Akua Twum, a participant, at the ceremony Picture: PATRICK DICKSON

50 Teachers attend workshop on quality education

Kukua Nketsia Asiedu Education Aug - 23 - 2016 , 09:04 2 minutes read

The Accra Metro Education Directorate, with sponsorship from the SOS Children’s Villages Ghana, has organised a three-day workshop on the “Quality Education Now” project for 50 participants drawn from the 10 educational sub-metros within the Accra Metropolis.

Participants were taken through the various forms of assessment of learners and how to develop standard test materials for their students.

Sources at the workshop indicated that it had been observed that currently, teachers in some schools resorted to questions prepared by certain organisations for the conduct of their examinations.

At the end of the workshop, the Training Officer, Mr Emmanuel Techie, advised teachers to develop their own test materials instead of relying on external contractors for such materials, since the development of test items was a component of their training in the colleges of education.

He said developing such materials would enable the teachers to measure the right achievements of the children they taught as a requirement of the School Based Assessment (SBA).

He advised the participants to consider themselves as master trainers and replicate the knowledge acquired from their fellow teachers on the field, stressing that the Metro Education Directorate was committed to ensuring that teachers in all schools within the metropolis set their own questions without resorting to the services of contractors.

New form of assessment

A resource person, Ms Vivian Adjo Tetteh, who is the Coordinator for Science, Mathematics and ICT Education, explained that the School Based Assessment (SBA) was a new form of academic assessment that had replaced the previous continuous assessment to enhance the progress of students’ performance.

She said the new assessment was more detailed than the previous one which only looked at the ordinary scores or marked the activities of the participant’s performance.

She said the new assessment included looking at the challenges of students, and also encouraging critical thinking, teamwork and sharing of ideas.

Participants were taken through all the stages of the School Based Assessment.

Training Workshop

A lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, Mr Peter Eshun, who handled the participants during the first two days of the programme, took them through the techniques in test item construction.