MoE asked to release Nat’l 2021 standardised test results

The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) has called on the Ministry of Education (MoE) to release the just-ended national 2021 standardised test results of primary four students who sat for the national examination.

The Executive Director of GNACOPS, Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah in a post sighted by AcademicWeek.com quizzed when the results of the examination the Minister for Education, Dr Adutwum says will improve learning outcomes be released.

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Meanwhile, the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST) has disclosed the results of the first edition of the standardised test conducted by the West African Exam Council in the 2021 academic year have been delayed amid some difficulties.

In a statement copied to AcademicWeek, the Studies said a source has told them the not-for-profit-making organization is finding it difficult to produce the results because most students did not shade the question paper.

Among other things that have delayed the release of the 2021 national standardised test results, IFEST indicated the Ghana Education Service (GES) was not in favour of the mode in which the examination was conducted by WAEC.

“This was against the National Learning Assessment Framework and its associated Operational Plan of making the NST a school-based diagnostic test instead of a WAEC conducted external examination,” the Institute for Education stated.

The call for the release of the national examination results comes after the Deputy Minister for Education, John Ntim Fordjour late May 2022 said the West African Examinations Council in the coming weeks will release the results.

In a discussion monitored by AcademicWeek, John Ntim Fordjour said the maiden edition of the national standardised results when released by WAEC will determine the strength and weaknesses of students in literacy and numeracy.

“In the next couple of weeks, the report of the 2021 national standardised test will be published and we will know the level of improvement of the class four pupils across the country,” the Assin South Member of Parliament stated.

Describing the administration of the 2021 examination as successful and leakage-free, Reverend Fordjour indicated the non-profit-making organization (WAEC) at the appropriate time will conduct another test for some students.

In line with the Deputy Education Minister, Dr Osei Yaw Adutwum, the Minister for Education has said parents of primary 4 students who participated in the last year’s national examination will be given copies of their ward’s results.

“Last year we did the first national standardised test and close to 500,000 students participated in the exams and the results will be coming out soon to tell us how well primary 4 students are doing,” he said in an Education address.

Adutwum in the televised ‘State of the Education Address’ said primary two, four and six students in public schools will be assessed in the next conduct of the exams with the aim to determine the prospective pupils’ academic performance.