Educational Think Tank, Eduwatch, says the number of cancelled and withheld reults in the 2021 WASSCE confirms their allegations of widespread, institutionalized malpractices in many schools.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) released the provisional results of candidates, who sat for the WASSCE in Ghana on Thursday.
A statement from WAEC stated that the entire results of 3,667 candidates had been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractice detected during and after the conduct of the examination.
The scripts of candidates from 194 schools in certain subjects have also been withheld and are being scrutinised.
The withheld results of candidates may be cancelled or released based on the outcome of the investigations.
A statement from EduWatch noted that while a lot of the 2021 malpractices fell through the cracks due to WAEC’s inertia towards invigilation, a few were caught in the web.
According to the statement, the problem in Ghana’s education system is the inequitable distribution of learning outcomes.
The statement added that National Averages have always looked good but potentially misleading without conducting a regional and district analysis to find out how many students are passing from Lambuise SH , Buipe SHS, Zabzugu SHS, Takoo SHS etc which have a history of 0% WASSCE pass rates
“Preliminary Observations on WASSCE 2021 Results For the second year running, over 50% of students obtained A1-C6 in the core papers. In terms of general targets for WASSCE Pass Rate in the Education Strategic Plan, GES met targets for Maths, Integrated Science and Social Studies. This is great, even though the target for English was missed. Now lets look beyond the national averages.
“The problem in our education system is the inequitable distribution of learning outcomes. National Averages have always looked good but potentially misleading without conducting a regional and district analysis to find out how many students are passing from Lambuise SH , Buipe SHS, Zabzugu SHS, Takoo SHS etc which have a history of 0% WASSCE pass rates. By 2019, all the about 30 schools in Upper West Region were scoring under 1%, when national pass rates was nearing 50%. It would be great to base any analysis of the results on the disaggregated regional and school level data which is not yet available, but would be done,” excerpts of the statement read.
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