{"id":357500,"date":"2017-09-28T06:35:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T06:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=357500"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:10:11","slug":"four-year-shs-duration-improves-exam-results-but-isser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/four-year-shs-duration-improves-exam-results-but-isser\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-year SHS duration improves exam results but… – ISSER"},"content":{"rendered":"
A shift to the four-year duration of secondary education\u00a0to improve quality is supported by research, especially if examination results are used as an indicator of quality, according to the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER)\u00a0of the University of Ghana.<\/p>\n
But a Senior Research Fellow at ISSER, Dr. Nana Akua Anyidoho, acknowledged that using examination results\u00a0as an indicator of quality was “very narrow and very limited.”<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”vgZewUGic0CstQoiRElUSPMpcVw1EmXy”]In its 2016 Ghana Social Development Outlook, ISSER noted that, the four-year system afforded students a better transition from the junior high to the senior high level.<\/p>\n
The duration of secondary education is once again up for debate after the Minister for Planning, Dr. George Gyan Baffuor, hinted of a possible third review of the duration.<\/p>\n
The New Patriotic Party administration under John Kufuor\u00a0introduced the four-year SHS duration in 2007, however, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) reverted to the three-year system after it regained power in 2009.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the launch of the Outlook, Dr. Anyidoho noted analysis of West\u00a0African Examination Council\u00a0(WAEC) data indicating that \u201cthe four-year duration for senior high schools does produce\u00a0better examination results, that is if you are using examination results as an indicator of quality.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the analysis \u201cputs this down to the fact that the four-year SHS programme gives SHS students more time to transition and to go through the curriculum before the terminal examination which can take up a large part of the final year of school.\u201d<\/p>\n