The 2023 Uganda Certificate of Education examination results and what they mean to us as a nation.

by Anthony Mary OmunaGirls and Youth Empowerment, Parental and Community Engagement, Research & Policy Engagement, Teacher Professional DevelopmentPosted on 61 Comments

With a rise in the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) performance of candidates scoring Division 1,  UNEB announced a drop in failures and 95.9% of learners who sat for the 2023 UCE examination qualify to proceed to the next levels. 49.5% of the total number were male and 50.5% female.

The overall performance in the sciences has again not impressed UNEB with less than 20% of the candidates obtaining Credit pass scores in Physics and Chemistry subjects, and upto 40% unable to pass.

What do these results really mean to us as a nation? This is the overall assessment of hundreds of thousands of youth in their journey to adulthood and what quality of adulthood have we packaged for them. 

Dr. John Mary Vianney Mitanda, (E.D JM Education & Research Centre) discusses the implication of the 2023 UCE results via the link below.

SYSTEMS MAPPING WORKSHOP ON ADAPTING ASSESSMENT IN POLICY AND LEARNING (ADAPT): ADOLESCENT 21ST CENTURY SKILLS.

by Anthony Mary OmunaResearch & Policy EngagementPosted on Comments are Disabled

Formative study on the utilisation of Past and present learning assessments in Uganda. ADAPT project focuses on promoting the acquisition of 21st century skills for adolescents by strengthening utilisation of data from learning assessments in curriculum design, adaptation and delivery in East Africa, building on learnings from the ALiVE initiative. On the 14th and 15th …

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ADAPT SYSTEMS MAPPING WORKSHOP

by Anthony Mary OmunaResearch & Policy Engagement, UncategorizedPosted on Comments are Disabled

On the 14th and 15th of November 2022, we held the Adapting assessment into policy and learning (ADAPT): Adolescent 21st Century Skills systems mapping workshop in Uganda. On the two-day event, we had participants from various education organisations and bodies such as; Uwezo Uganda, District Education Officers (DEO), Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB), FICH, Secondary …

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