GES Promotion Aptitude Test True/False Questions and Answers 

This guide is ideal for teachers aiming for ranks like Deputy Director (DD) or higher. Use it to test your knowledge – explanations are added for clarity on tricky ones. Let’s get started!

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True/False Questions and Answers

Note: Questions with duplicates or variations in the original document have been consolidated for uniqueness. Answers are bolded (True or False) with brief explanations based on verified facts.

1. The District Education Oversight Committee (DEOC) is a structure to facilitate community participation in education. Answer: True Explanation: DEOC promotes local involvement in education decisions.

2. The capitation grant was introduced in basic schools to remove fees as a barrier to access education. Answer: True Explanation: Introduced to make basic education free and accessible.

3. One of the objectives of the 2008 Education Reform Programme is to enhance education sector management and budgeting procedures. Answer: True Explanation: Aimed at improving efficiency and governance.

4. An attitude of good governance in GES is non-delegation of management control of an institution. Answer: False Explanation: Good governance encourages delegation for efficiency.

5. The core function of the Ghana Education Service is to formulate approved structure and content of education in the country. Answer: False Explanation: GES implements policies; formulation is by MoE and NaCCA.

6. The Ghana Education Service Act, 2008 (Act 778) is the Act currently governing the Ghana Education Service. Answer: False Explanation: GES is primarily governed by Act 506 (1995); Act 778 is the broader Education Act.

7. A school’s “informal organization” refers to the structure of extra-curricular activities. Answer: True Explanation: Includes social networks and activities beyond formal structure.

8. Give teachers the authority and responsibility to apply their own professional knowledge to making decisions in their area of responsibility is an important aspect of collegiality. Answer: True Explanation: Promotes collaboration and professional autonomy.

9. Teacher survey is not an effective process for collecting data about instructional and organizational effectiveness. Answer: False Explanation: Surveys are valuable for feedback.

10. Norm-referenced test cannot be used to improve instruction. Answer: False Explanation: Can identify areas for improvement, though criterion-referenced is better.

11. Value added assessment focuses on student learning gains in an academic year. Answer: True Explanation: Measures progress over time.

12. Complexity in school scheduling relates to meeting the different needs of students. Answer: True Explanation: Accommodates diverse learner requirements.

13. School needs refrain from conducting the community surveys. Answer: False Explanation: Surveys help gauge community needs.

14. Newly trained teachers are socialized in order to perpetuate the culture of the school. Answer: True Explanation: Helps integrate them into school norms.

15. Teachers exercise leadership in the school in their operations. Answer: True Explanation: Teachers lead in classrooms and beyond.

16. A school is considered efficient if inputs are low and outputs are high. Answer: True Explanation: Efficiency maximizes outputs with minimal resources.

17. Grading of students performance has a powerful influence on school culture and contributes to shaping how students learn both in the classroom and outside of the classroom. Answer: True Explanation: Influences motivation and learning behaviors.

18. Consensus in planning increases teacher sense of ownership in school improvements efforts. Answer: True Explanation: Builds commitment through involvement.

19. Visioning identifies destination; planning provides the goals and strategies to get there. Answer: True Explanation: Vision sets direction; planning maps the path.

20. Efficiency as a value affects social policy decisions. Answer: True Explanation: Influences resource allocation in policies.

21. Normative systems, such as grading on the curve, work against collaborative learning strategies. Answer: True Explanation: Promotes competition over collaboration.

22. Involving teachers in the employment interviews of prospective teachers for department is a bad idea. Answer: False Explanation: Enhances team fit and collegiality.

23. Performance task are hands-on activities that require students to demonstrate their ability to perform certain actions. Answer: True Explanation: Focuses on practical skills.

24. It is not important to know the purpose of assessment before selecting an assessment. Answer: False Explanation: Purpose guides appropriate method.

25. Grades are indicator of what students have learned become tainted if not-academic factors are counted and included in the evaluation. Answer: True Explanation: Should reflect academic achievement only.

26. Making unprogrammed decisions in schools demand in teachers engage in extensive analysis because existing policy and rules do not prescribe the actions to be taken. Answer: True Explanation: Requires critical thinking for novel situations.

27. Teachers group decision making produces shared leadership in the school. Answer: True Explanation: Distributes leadership roles.

28. A teacher’s response to meeting the needs of learners when teaching is project-based instruction. Answer: True Explanation: Adapts to diverse needs through projects.

29. The indicator referred to in the standards-based Curriculum is a clear outcome that learners have to exhibit in each year to meet the content standard expectation. Answer: True Explanation: Defines expected performance.

30. A learning strategy where students learned about a subject through the experience addressing open-ended issues is curriculum based. Answer: False Explanation: This describes problem-based learning.

31. Lifelong learning is driven by the goal of achieving education sustainability. Answer: False Explanation: Driven by personal growth; sustainability is a broader goal.

32. The School Management Committee (SMC) was establishment to help ensure greater stakeholder participation in governance at the basic level. Answer: True Explanation: Enhances local governance.

33. The District Education Oversight Committee is to oversee the implementation of the decentralized education system at the District and Sub-district level. Answer: True Explanation: Monitors decentralization.

34. The re-appointment of a teacher who was on the interdiction as a result of disciplinary decision but cleared of all charges is referred to as re-instatement. Answer: True Explanation: Restores position after clearance.

35. NaSIA is responsible for the registration and licensing of new and existing teachers in pre-tertiary Educational Institutions. Answer: False Explanation: NTC handles teacher licensing; NaSIA licenses schools.

36. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 directly pertains to education. Answer: True Explanation: “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education.”

37. The key focus of education 2030 Agenda underlines the importance of citizenship education. Answer: False Explanation: Focuses on quality education; citizenship is part but not key.

38. Learning for active citizenship as a pillar of learning promotes commitment to sustainable human and social development. Answer: True Explanation: Fosters responsible citizens.

39. Analytical thinking is the mental process of carefully evaluating information and determining how to interpret it in order to make a sound judgement. Answer: True Explanation: Core definition.

40. The object of the National Teaching Council is to regulate the teaching profession in Ghana. Answer: True Explanation: Per Act 1023.

41. National Schools Inspectorate Authority is headed by the Director-General of Ghana Education Service. Answer: False Explanation: Independent agency with its own Inspector-General.

42. Offering praise to students in class encourages to repeat positive behaviour. Answer: True Explanation: Positive reinforcement.

43. Teachers are encouraged to address isolated behaviour issues in managing the classroom. Answer: True Explanation: Prevents escalation.

44. Punishing an entire class is recommended in instilling discipline in class. Answer: False Explanation: Unfair and ineffective.

45. Student compliance is the main goal in authoritarian approach to classroom management. Answer: True Explanation: Focuses on obedience.

46. The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has 22 members appointed by the president of Ghana. Answer: False Explanation: Has 19 members per Act 1023.

47. The Minister of Education (MOE) in collaboration of Minister of Finance (MOF) recruit’s teachers’ pre-tertiary educational institutions in Ghana. Answer: False Explanation: GES recruits with MoF clearance.

48. Nursery and Creche is officially recognize as part of formal education system. Answer: False Explanation: Formal starts at kindergarten.

49. Professor Jane Opoku-Agyeman was Minister of Education in 2017. Answer: False Explanation: Served until 2017; succeeded by Matthew Opoku Prempeh.

50. The current Director-General of Ghana Education Service has two deputies. Answer: True Explanation: Two deputies for management and access.

51. Ghana Education Service (GES) and National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA) are both mandated by the Education Regulatory Bodies Act 2020, (Act 1023) to register and license all pre-tertiary schools in Ghana. Answer: False Explanation: NaSIA handles licensing; GES implements.

52. The National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA) close down a school in an emergency situation after a consultation with the Minister and Regional Education Directorate concerned. Answer: True Explanation: Per Act 1023.

53. The lesson plan is a list of planned activities and programme in a school that guide teaching and learning. Answer: True Explanation: Guides daily instruction.

54. Dr. Yaw Adutwum, Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, has increased scholarships to all students in his constituency to pursue programmes in Medicine. Answer: True Explanation: Known for constituency scholarships.

55. In classroom management your strategies and procedures need not be age specific. Answer: False Explanation: Must be age-appropriate.

56. A written account of the proceedings at a meeting is known as a report. Answer: False Explanation: That’s minutes; reports summarize.

57. Interviews and questionnaires are primary sources of information. Answer: True Explanation: Collect original data.

58. With the “One Teacher, One Laptop” initiative the government will pay 80% of the cost while the teacher pays 20%. Answer: False Explanation: It was 70/30 in 2021; confirm current ratios.

59. The ICT in Education Policy seeks to standardize and enhance the implementation and post-implementation stage of ICT in Education interventions. Answer: True Explanation: Aims for integration.

60. The Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 in number. Answer: True Explanation: UN SDGs are 17.

61. In contemporary times the police are part of the school administration and management. Answer: False Explanation: Assist but not core members.

62. The school, first of all accountable to the pupils because they are the main clients of education. Answer: True Explanation: Students are primary stakeholders.

63. The school head would need the staff attendance register in order to complete her staff appraisal report. Answer: True Explanation: Attendance is a key metric.

64. The notice board is the most suitable form of communication used in the school. Answer: True Explanation: Traditional but effective for notices.

65. Leadership focuses on the achievement of goals. Answer: True Explanation: Core to leadership.

71. The Ghana Education Service Act, 2008 (Act 778) is the current Act governing the Ghana Education Service. Answer: False Explanation: See question 6; primarily Act 506, though Act 778 impacts.

73. Teacher survey is an effective process for collecting data about instruction and organizational effectiveness. Answer: True Explanation: Contradicts 9, but correct is True.

85. Normative strategies such as grading on the curve, work against the collaborative learning strategies. Answer: True Explanation: Promotes competition.

87. Performance tasks are hands on activities that require students to demonstrate their strategy to perform certain actions. Answer: True Explanation: Demonstrates abilities.

89. Grades are indicators of what have learned become talented if non-academic factors are counted and included in the evaluation. Answer: True Explanation: Tainted if non-academic included.

90. The Ministry of Education formulates and implement national policies and programmes on education in Ghana. Answer: True Explanation: MoE formulates; agencies implement.

91. Teacher Education Division (TED) is one of the division of the Ghana education service Headquarters. Answer: True Explanation: TED is a GES division.

92. In any school situation, performance tasks are hands-on activities that require students to demonstrate their ability to perform certain actions. Answer: True

93. Teachers who are skilled and liked are associated with greater student satisfaction and higher achievement. Answer: True

94. Teacher cannot exhibit referent power from the first day of class by giving students a sense of belonging and acceptance. Answer: False

95. Classrooms are said to have norms when only few of students agree on what is and / or what is not socially acceptable classroom behaviour. Answer: False

96. Social psychologists believe that the process of group formation begins when its members agree to go against the norms of the school. Answer: False Explanation: Begins with agreement on norms.

97. Licensure and exit test are the best predictors of classroom performance of teachers. Answer: False Explanation: Not the best; experience and training also key.

98. If a teacher with a high degree of clarity, he/she will spend less time going over material. Answer: True

99. The students is higher when the teacher devotes large amount of time to the process and materials needed rather than teaching content. Answer: False Explanation: Balance needed; content is key.

100. When the teacher does not say is every bit as important as what a teacher does say. Answer: True Explanation: Non-verbal communication matters.

101. Competitive activities have little value in establishing or maintaining an effective classroom climate and should thus be avoided. Answer: False Explanation: Can be valuable if managed.

102. Students important and are encouraged to participate in class when a teacher uses their ideas in moving a class lesson or activity forward. Answer: True

103. Bid-rigging may result in the supply of inferior textbooks supplies. Answer: True Explanation: Corruption issue.

104. In assessing learning, it is not important to know the purpose of assessment before selecting an assessment approach. Answer: False

105. Types of corruption in elementary secondary education range from academic cheating to bribery and nepotism in teaching appointments, to bid-rigging the procurement of textbooks and supplies. Answer: True

106. When families are made to pay bribes for services, this puts poor students as disadvantage and thus reduce equal access to education. Answer: True

107. Giving teachers the authority and responsibility to apply their own professional knowledge to making decisions in their area of responsibility is an important aspect of collegiality. Answer: True

108. Establishing rules and procedures is one of the least important classroom management tasks. Answer: False

109. The performing stage begins when students want to show they can do some things independently of the teacher. Answer: True Explanation: Tuckman’s stages.

110. Written assessment are activities in which students select and compose a response to a prompt. Answer: True

111. The teacher cannot either alter a classroom ultimate but should work for student success regardless of the climate. Answer: False Explanation: Teachers can influence climate.

112. In Ghana, the National teachers’ Standards set out the maximum levels of practice that all trained teachers must reach by the end of their pre-service teacher education course in order to play such a critical role. Answer: False Explanation: Minimum levels.

123. The skills that must be demonstrated in performance tasks cannot vary considerably. Answer: False Explanation: Can vary widely.

124. In a school, teachers has many different types of assessment available to them. Answer: True

125. Evidence of a positive school ethos consistent shared values and standards. Answer: True

126. It is important that circuit supervisors keep their teachers lesson plans notebooks. Answer: False Explanation: Teachers keep them; supervisors review.

127. Students learn best in multitude of ways rather than dominant means. Answer: True Explanation: Multiple intelligences.

128. The competency-based training curriculum delivery methodology is suitable for TVET training at second cycle level of education. Answer: True

129. Every goal in the 2030 agenda requires education to empower people with the knowledge, skills and values to live in dignity, build their lives and contributes to their societies. Answer: True

130. A school head promoting a professional learning community can lead to sense of competition among teachers in the school. Answer: False Explanation: Promotes collaboration.

131. As a supervisor, consulting your staff in advance when developing a plan may direct your attention to potentials pitfalls. Answer: True

132. The need for a supervisor to engage in a human relations angle of supervision means that the supervisor should be involve in problem solving and learner centre education. Answer: True

133. In mainstreaming special education students, it is important they experience an educational environment that reinforces the difference between special education and general education students. Answer: False Explanation: Aims for inclusion, not difference.

134. The school head should ensure that paid vouchers are numbered sequentially and entered same in the log book and properly filled. Answer: True Explanation: For financial accountability.

135. Climate change, Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development have become major tools for protecting the environment and ensuring sustainable development. Answer: True

136. Even though homework is important in instructional system and teachers must therefore give homework as part of instructional process, it is not scored as of the School Based-Assessment in Ghana. Answer: True

137. A teacher must test his/her students when assessing them. Answer: True

138. Objective typed test cannot be used to assess higher-order thinking abilities. Answer: False Explanation: Can with well-designed questions.

139. Within the GES structure, decision making takes place only within the GES council. Answer: False Explanation: Decentralized to districts.

140. Transfer within the GES is an external exercise. Answer: False Explanation: Internal process.

141. The GES Act 1995 [Act 506] and education Act 2008 [Act 877] are statues that are directly related to the functions of the GES. Answer: True

142. In 1974, the new structure and content of education was introduced brought about the JSS concept implemented on pilot basis from 1976 to 1987. Answer: True

143. The Ministry of Education’s main mandate is to formulate education policies. A legal incident in his mandate is monitoring and evaluating their performance. Answer: True

144. Legitimate power of a school head is conferred by his or her appointment to the position and therefore can exert administrative authority. Answer: True

145. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 4, Target 1 states that “by 2023, all boys and girls complete free equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes”. Answer: False Explanation: By 2030, not 2023.

146. A school can directly improve academic performance by students by improving teacher’s note-taking skills. Answer: False Explanation: Note-taking is basic; focus on teaching skills.

147. One of the major quality assurance issues confronting heads of public senior high schools is the encroachment on lands by the local chiefs and other people. Answer: True

148. The school timetable brings together subjects, teachers, classes, rooms and school equipment in the best possible permutations. Answer: True

149. The overall goal of the Ministry of Education is to provide relevant education and quality education for some Ghanaians. Answer: False Explanation: For all Ghanaians.

150. The goal of the education sector is in accordance with the Education Act 778. Answer: True

151. The guiding principles of guidance and counselling is that optimum emotional and psychological well-being of the learner is determining factor for effective learning. Answer: True

152. Outstanding teachers maybe selected for awards by school improvement and support officers, pupils/students, heads of institutions and colleagues. Answer: True

153. The quality of teaching is determined by the total number of pupils in a class. Answer: False Explanation: Quality depends on methods, not just class size.

154. The closing of schools, universities and colleges as a result of COVID-19 outbreak disturbed teaching for students around the world but could not affect education in any way as teaching and learning still go on. Answer: False Explanation: Affected access and quality.

155. Equity, inclusion, gender and teachers are cross-cutting issues in education. Answer: True

156. Basic education is designed for all Ghanaian children from age four(4) to fifteen(15) within a period of eleven(11) years. Answer: True

157. Creativity and innovations (CI) skills enable learners to develop their cognitive and reasoning abilities to analyse issues and situations leading to the resolution of the problem. Answer: True

158. An important strategy that will help you as a teacher to introduce your topic is to anticipate students questions. Answer: True

159. Summative assessment can take the form of progress review meetings between the leader and the student at various points in the terms. Answer: False Explanation: Summative is end-of-term; formative is ongoing.

160. It is recommended to take statements directly from texts to make good ‘true or false’ question items. Answer: False Explanation: Should be rephrased to test understanding.

161. Strategies such as writing detailed questions or prompts, including clear directions and establishing and communicating clear grading criteria will increase test reliability. Answer: True

162. Two key characteristics of any form of assessment are validity and reliability. Another way to think of reliability is replicability. Answer: True

163. Student performance is higher in classes where the teacher devotes large amounts of time to the materials needed rather than teaching content. Answer: False

164. In Ghana, financial accountability is one of the major responsibilities of the head of schools. Answer: True

165. Procrastinating is a productive behaviour pattern that causes you to enhance your on the job efficiency because you focus on tasks that aren’t priorities for the day or week. Answer: False

166. An advantage of planning is that we intend to focus on what works today and not how to deal with the issues of tomorrow. Answer: False Explanation: Planning anticipates future.

167. Teacher Education Division (TED) is one of the divisions of the Ghana Education Service Headquarters. Answer: True

168. The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission comprises the National Accreditation Board and National Council for Tertiary Education. Answer: True Explanation: Merged under Act 1023.

169. The Ghana Education Service Council submits to the Minister of Education recommendations for tertiary education policies and programmes in Ghana. Answer: False Explanation: GES is pre-tertiary; GTEC handles tertiary.

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