Ghana 2016: national education assessment: report of findings

This report presents the findings from the 2016 administration of the Ghana National Education Assessment (NEA), carried out by the National Education Assessment Unit (NEAU) within the Ghana Education Service (GES). The NEA is a biennial nationally and regionally representative measure of pupil competency in mathematics and English in primary classes 4 and 6 (P4 and P6). In 2016, the NEA was revised to assess P4 rather than P3 pupils to better align with Ghana’s current language-of-instruction policy. The 2016 edition was the sixth application of the NEA, and it covered all 10 regions of Ghana, sampling 550 schools and testing 35,996 pupils over the course of three days in July
2016. The sample size was designed to be representative at the national and regional levels,
but not at the district level.