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ROLE OF NCDC IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF LITERACY MATERIALS IN UGANDA

ROLE OF NCDC IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF LITERACY MATERIALS IN UGANDA. Outline of the presentation. Background – who we are and our functions Process of developing and assessing literacy materials at NCDC Challenges facing the development and assessment of literacy materials

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ROLE OF NCDC IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF LITERACY MATERIALS IN UGANDA

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  1. ROLE OF NCDC IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF LITERACY MATERIALS IN UGANDA

  2. Outline of the presentation • Background – who we are and our functions • Process of developing and assessing literacy materials at NCDC • Challenges facing the development and assessment of literacy materials • Way forward

  3. Who we are • NCDC Mandate - established by the Act Chapter 135, Laws of Uganda Revised Edition 2000. • We are a corporate autonomous body of the Ministry of Education and Sports that is responsible for the inter-alia development of curricula and related materials for the various levels of education, that is; Pre-Primary, Primary, Secondary and some Tertiary institutions

  4. NCDC functions • Investigate and evaluate the need for syllabus revision and curriculum reform • Initiate new syllabuses, revise existing ones, carry out curriculum reform, research, testing and evaluation, to bring up-to-date and improve syllabuses for school and college courses. • Draft teaching schemes, textbooks, Teacher’s Manuals, and examination syllabuses in cooperation with teaching institutions and examining bodies. • Design and develop teaching aids and instruction materials. • Devise test and evaluate examination questions and methods of examining students with other appropriate teaching and examining bodies.

  5. NCDC functions contd. • Organize and conduct in-service courses of instruction for the acquisition of knowledge and professional skill by persons intending or required to teach new courses developed at the Centre. • Organize and conduct courses in the objectives and methods of curriculum development work. • Hold seminars and conferences on curriculum development projects and problems.

  6. NCDC functions contd. • Collect, compute, analyse and abstract statistical information on curriculum and matters related to curriculum. • Publish information, bulletins, digests, periodicals or other written material concerning curriculum and other matters related to curriculum. • Disseminate and promote general and better knowledge and understanding of new curriculums, teaching, methods and teaching aids.

  7. Process of developing and assessing literacy materials

  8. Process of developing and assessing literacy materials contd.

  9. Challenges facing the development and assessment of literacy materials • Difficulty of writers to interpret the curriculum. • Failure to use appropriate professionals to develop the required materials. • Failure to edit materials that are to be used in schools to support the curriculum. • Sell of pamphlets and other sub-standard materials on the market which often find their way to the schools. • Failure of publishers to pay authors for the work done which discourages Ugandans from writing materials for use in schools. • Insufficient funding which limits the number of publications that we can have in schools. • Reluctance by some publishers/authors to effect corrections in their manuscripts as requested.

  10. Way forward • Development of a country will be developed through developing reading skills at an early stage. • Development of literacy materials should be the concern of every Ugandan • Publishers should engage professional editors for quality materials

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