Instruction: Answer all the question in this section by circling the letter corresponding to the correct or best answer on your question paper.
1. Which of the following best illustrates a teacher applying a constructivists approach to the 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 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 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
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 equality 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 decision, it helps to
11. The standards specified in the content of the new GES Curriculum for Basic schools, adopted for the 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, 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 the 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 teacher in post observation conferences and use them to guide the discussions. Which of the following statements best illustrates 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 goals 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 expect tag attached to it means the supervision .......................
16. A school head has been transferred to a failing school. In order to turn it around, the school head must 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 and 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 task by
19. A student –teacher who had grade b+ in Assessment in a 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 one of the following characteristics of a good test might have informed the head teachers’ question?
20. Which if the following purposes of assessments is often associated with a letter grade 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 a broad national goal 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 wit recommendations of the
28. The roles of the school Management Committees (SMCs) and head teachers in the management of 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 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 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 efforts to influence a child’s........
35. Which of the following is a teacher-centred mode that focuses on students’ activities being guided by teacher?
36. Any method of teaching which involves two or more students, can be termed as........
TRUE OR FALSE QUESTIONS
Instruction: Answer all the question in this section by circling the letter corresponding to the correct or best answer on your paper.
37. Evidence of a positive school ethos includes consistent shares values and standards.
38. It is important that circuit supervisor keep their teachers’ lesson 5plan notebooks.
38. It is important that circuit supervisor keep their teachers’ lesson 5plan notebooks.
39. Students learn best in a multitude of ways rather than one dominant means,
40. The competency-based training curriculum delivery methodology is suitable for TVET training at the second cycle level of Education.
41. Every goal in the 2030 Agenda require education to empower people with the knowledge, skill and values to live in dignity, build their lives and co tribute to their societies.
42. A school head promoting professional learning community can lead to a sense of competition among teachers in a school.
43. As a supervisor, consulting your staff in advance when developing a plan may direct your attention to potential pitfalls.
44. The need for supervisor to engage in a human relations angle of supervision means that the supervisor should be involve in problem solving and learner-centered education.
45. In mainstreaming special education students, it is important that they experience an education environment that reinforces the differences between special education and general students.
46. The school head should ensure that aid vouchers are numbered sequentially and entered same in the log book and properly filled.
47. Climate change, Environmental Education for sustainable Development have become major tools for protecting the environment and ensuring sustainable development,
48. Even though homework is important in the instructional system and teachers must therefore give homework as part of the instructional process, it is Not scored part of the School based Assessment in Ghana.
49. A teacher must test his/her students when assessing them.
50. Objective type test cannot be used to assess higher order thinking abilities.
51. Transfers within the GES is an external exercise.
52. Transfers within GES structure, decision making takes place only within the GES council.
53. The GES Act 1995 ( Act 506) and the Education Act 2008 ( Act 877)
54. The GES Act 1974, the new structure and content of education was introduced which brought about the JSS concept implemented on a pilot basis from 1976 to 1987.
55. The ministry of Education’s main mandate is to formulate education policies. A legal incident in this monitoring and evaluating their performance.
56. Legitimate power of a school head is conferred by virtue of his or her appointment to the position and therefore can exert administrative authority.
