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1. Which of the following best illustrates a teacher applying a constructivist approach to student learning?
2. A JHS teacher gives students a term project that involves various activities such as conducting a research, interviewing people, writing a report and making a group presentation in class.
Which of the following strategies should the teacher use to help the students successfully carry out their projects?
3. In a typical teaching and learning environment, students are most likely to be intrinsically motivated to learn when they
4. The Free SHS Programme in Ghana is funded by the
5. Alhaji Musa has recently been appointed as the head of an educational institution. Upon assuming duty, he thought of carving a statement of the ideal future of the school. This statement will provide a dramatic look at what the entire school will be like at a distant point in the future, say five to ten years. This statement is a broad image of the possibilities that lie ahead. This statement is called a/an
6. Which of the following statements about effective classroom management is false?
Classroom management involves….
7. Global citizenship education is a form of………that involves student’s active participation in projects that address global issues of social, political and economic development
8. Which of the following affirms that quality is at the heart of education and therefore sets out the desirable characteristics for the various components for quality education – learners, content and system?
9. Which of the following in Ghana has the objective of equitable educational opportunity and the prioritization of the disadvantaged in the society?
10. When making important administrative decisions, it helps to…..
11. The standards specified in the content of the new GES Curriculum for Basic Schools, adopted for implementation in September 2019 in Ghana, are based on not only what Ghana as a nation requires of its workforce, but also on the demands of globalization. At the points of exit, it is expected that graduates for the curriculum will have attained knowledge and skills that allow them to compete in the international job market.
Which of the following goals of curriculum development is this reflected in?
12. Ensuring high teacher morale is important because teachers with high morale
13. During teacher evaluations, the circuit supervisor or school head needs to take objective evidence-based notes to share with teachers in post-observation conferences and use them to guide the discussion.
Which of the following statements best illustrate such notes?
14. A school head is about to take over the leadership of a low-performing school. One of the school head’s first goal will be to evaluate teacher quality in the school. The school head can best begin this process by…
15. The basic assumption that supervision has an expert tag attached to it means the supervisor
16. A school head has been transferred to a failing school. In order to turn it around, the school head can best avoid early mistakes and promote a smooth transition by taking which of the following actions first?
17. Which one of the following factors should an educator consider as the most important when evaluating a programme?
18. Which one of the following actions would you take in order to attain a high level of consistency in scoring students’ responses to assessment tasks? By
19. A student-teacher who had grad B+ in Assessment in school could not write good items for an end-of-term examination. The head teacher of the school, therefore, questioned the teacher as to whether he really took part in the assessment course.
Which of the following characteristics of a good test might have informed the head teacher’s question?
20. Which of the following purposes of assessment is often associated with a letter grade or number?
21. A criterion-referenced assessment would most likely be used to
22. Which of the following statement(s) is/are false?
I. It is easy to achieve the broad national goals of education when curriculum development is decentralized
II. Students who follow a decentralized curriculum in deprived school districts are likely to be disadvantaged in the job market.
23.The following constitute special units under GES except the
24. The tenure of office of members of the GES council is
25. The components of the Capitation Grant include all the following except
26. Transfer Grant payable is equivalent to ………….
27. The Government of Ghana mainstreamed KG into basic education in line with recommendations of the
28. The roles of the School Management Committees (SMCs) and head teachers in the management of the Capitation Grant are all the following except to ensure
29. In the computerized schools selection and placement system, all the following are used except the scores of
30. The main purpose of the policy on a girl child education by government is to ensure that
31. The ‘scheme of service’ of teachers refers to the
32. One of the students of a class hardly talks in the class. How would you encourage him to express himself?
33. A teacher is to use appropriate methods, techniques and sound principles of teaching and learning such as
I. Building on past learning or previous knowledge and positive reinforcement
II. Providing guidance and practice in class before independent practice
III. Motivating and sustaining pupil’s interest
IV. Involving each learner in the teaching/learning process
V. Distributing evaluative questions evenly.
34. A curriculum is the sum total of a school’s efforts to influence a child’s
35. Which of the following is a teacher-centered model that forces on students’ activities being guided by the teacher?
