Ghana dominates students' ability to read around the world | Education

Ghana scored highest on the ability of its students to read both Ghanaian and English language badessments.

According to the Early Grade Reading Reading and Math (EGRM) project implemented over a year ago in 13 countries in Africa and Eastern Europe, Ghana has dominated countries such as South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Jordan and Tonga, who tested students' abilities in the clbadroom. One and two to read an average word per minute at seven words per minute.

Early reading

The Early Reading Reading (EGR) report indicates that letter-sound identification of first-graders increased from 6.24 letter-per-minute sounds to 25.54 letters per minute, making the Ghana EGR program 'one of the most important effects at the beginning of the clbad'. reading program around the world. "

The results of the study implemented by the USAID Partnership for Education in collaboration with the evaluation systems were presented at a dissemination seminar held in Accra on Tuesday, June 11th. .

In Ghana, the study was conducted in 100 districts across the country.

The report indicates that the program component that has had the greatest impact is adherence to prescribed lesson plans.

He also explained that schools where teachers followed closely prescribed lesson plans, with the largest number of engaged students and the highest performing students.

Mathematics Driver

After one year of implementation of the pilot program of mathematics for young children (EGMP), the report indicated that mathematics performance had progressed considerably, particularly in areas that the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Education. Ghana Education Service (GES) needed to improve.

The report identified the field as the conceptual understanding of mathematics, adding that improvements in the behavior and practice of teachers led to these improvements in learning outcomes.

According to the report, after one year of implementation of the referral program, it was clear that the intervention had the potential to improve the results of first year mathematics badessment, nationally and beyond .

USAID / Ghana Deputy Chief of Mission Steven E. Hendrix said in a statement that the results of the GAAR impact badessment showed a significant and positive improvement in the learning outcomes of the primary school students.

Systems created

Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister in charge of General Education, commended USAID for the research work done so far, adding that the most important thing was not the amount of work done, but the system created.

He said Ghana needed to make a leap forward in order to catch up on development, recalling comprehensive education reforms aimed at completely overhauling the education sector.

Impact

In explaining to the Daily Graphic about the data and their impact, Monica Gadkari, head of party valuation systems, said that it was obvious that the program had a positive impact on the results of the program. student learning.

She said the results showed a statistically significant impact on the language of instruction in Ghana and on pre-reading skills in English.