With just six weeks remaining before pioneer students sit for the first set of exams under the new lower secondary curriculum, a study by the Uganda National Examination Board (Uneb) has revealed that most teachers across the country have been presenting students with outdated questions during assessment.
The findings indicated that instead of challenging students with higher-order questions that require critical thinking, teachers have continued to set questions based on the old curriculum.
This situation has raised concerns among experts, who fear that candidates may struggle to interpret and respond to the questions accurately, given the fact that Uneb will base the upcoming examinations on the new competency-based curriculum.
While releasing the findings on the implementation of the new competence-based curriculum in lower secondary schools at their offices in Kyambogo yesterday, Mr Rogers Karuhanga, one of the lead researchers, highlighted that teachers’ assessment methods did not align with the competence-based curriculum.
The results showed that 59 percent of teachers asked their students lower-order thinking questions, while only 41 percent posed higher-order thinking questions.
