Data repository for the controlled vocabularies and curriculum standards for Ghana.
# standards-ghana
Data repository for the controlled vocabularies and curriculum standards for Ghana.
Jurisdiction info
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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:
nacca.gov.gh
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
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- `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
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- 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
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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 n …