standards-ghana

Data repository for the controlled vocabularies and curriculum standards for Ghana.

Jurisdiction info

Curriculum standards in Ghana are published by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA).

The curriculum standards documents can be obtained in PDF format from: https://nacca.gov.gh/?page_id=9230 A local copy of these documents is available in the sourcedocuments/ folder. The old curriculum subjects can be viewed here. To learn more about Ghana curriculum standards in general, see the document National Pre-tertiary Education Curriculum Framework (local copy).

Contents

• sourcedocuments/: source documents (PDFs). See README for more info.
• sourcedata/: machine-readable source documents (spreadsheets)
  • The directory sourcedata/sample/ contains a sample of the Ghana Math curriculum manually represented as a spreadsheet. You can also view this sample online here.
• terms/: controlled vocabularies used in the digitized standards
  • CurriculumElements.yml
  • Subjects.yml
  • KeyPhases.yml
  • GradeLevels.yml
  • CoreCompetencies.yml
  • Values.yml
• standards/: curriculum standards data in machine-readable formats

Digitization notes

• Using pdftotext on the PDF documents does a good job at extracting the text but not the structure or the graphics used in examples.
• If we can obtain find the original .doc/.docx source documents that were used to create these PDFs we have stand a much better chance to extract the info. (The metadata in the PDF docs mentions Microsoft® Word 2013 and 2016 were used to create the docs.) Parsing .doc/.docx will allow us to extract structure from the tables.

License

All documents and are under copyright © National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), Ministry of Education Ghana. The digital representations of terms and standards data in this repository are for illustrative purposes part of the ROC data project and should not be considered endorsed or approved by the NaCCA in any way.