Starting with the 2024–2025 school year, Core and Elective Mathematics will not be required of all senior high school (SHS) Science students as separate examinable topics. The National Council and Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) Director-General, Professor Edward Appiah, has intimated that they will instead need to study Additional Mathematics.
Beginning with the 2024–2025 academic year, all senior high school (SHS) science students will not be required to take separate exams for Core and Elective Mathematics because they were already studying Pure Science, he disclosed, these Science students would also not study Integrated Science.
Beginning with the 2024–2025 academic year, all senior high school (SHS) science students will not be required to take separate exams for Core and Elective Mathematics.
Professor Edward Appiah, the Director-General of the National Council and Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), has hinted that they will have to study Additional Mathematics in its place.
The National Council and Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) Director-General, Professor Edward Appiah, has made hints that they will need to study Additional Mathematics in its stead. Additionally, he disclosed that since these science students were already studying pure science, they would not pursue integrated science.
The common core and standard-based curricula that the nation adopted for junior high and basic education, respectively, gave rise to the directive. The country’s pre-tertiary school curricula have been updated by the Ministry of Education.
The common core and standard-based curricula aim to move students away from memorization and toward developing critical learning abilities. The inaugural administration of the Common Core Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be administered to current JHS final-year students.
Prof. Appiah gave the Daily Graphic a tour of the new JHS and SHS curricula, explaining that since JHS 3 students started with the common core in JHS One, “their BECE will be based on the common core curriculum.”
In addition, he claimed that NaCCA had finished testing the common core curriculum for SHS students, which will start in the 2024–2025 school year.
He stated that to facilitate the selection of schools for the trial exam, NaCCA had divided the nation into three zones for the curriculum’s two continuous years of testing for the SHS.
“We selected Category A, B, and C schools for each zone to conduct the pilot testing, and we used the input we received to refine the document.
Prof. Appiah stated, “Of course, we had to even engage other stakeholders before getting to this stage,” and that NaCCA would conduct the final trial test of the document in 31 schools nationwide now that it had been finalized.
He emphasized that the present JHS 3 students would begin with the common core curriculum in SHS. “The trial will be completed in July so that it will go live in September when the academic year will be starting with the reversal to the old academic calendar,” he said.
Students in JHS who hurried to take the BECE 2023 exam, according to Prof. Appiah, lost because “those taking this common core-based examination will have easier assimilation and transition.”
“We now use a different assessment method.
The present approach is a multiple assessment system, not the end-of-year evaluation, he said. “Now, the students are being assessed along the line.”
He went on to say that the way the system was set up now, assessments were done on students during class activities and project work, so “the learner is being assessed as he or she is learning.”
Prof. Appiah continued by saying that a teacher might choose to forego administering an end-of-year exam using that style of assessment, as they may have already completed evaluating the students.
Source-Daily Graphic
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