The Jigawa State Government has announced plans to carry out a Computer-Based Test (CBT) for all classroom teachers in the state. The exercise aims to assess teachers’ skills and improve the quality of education in Jigawa.
Professor Haruna Musa, Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), revealed this during a briefing with journalists on Wednesday. According to him, the CBT is part of Governor Malam Umar Namadi’s efforts to raise teaching and learning standards across the state.
“Jigawa has faced challenges in teaching and learning for years,” Prof. Musa said. “We have introduced initiatives to reduce learning poverty, bring teachers back to classrooms, and improve their teaching quality.”
The CBT will cover all 10,000 permanent teachers in the state. The test will help identify teachers who are competent, semi-competent, or poor based on their content knowledge and teaching skills.
“Competent teachers have both the knowledge and skills. Semi-competent teachers know the content but lack some teaching skills, and we will train them to improve. Poor teachers lack both knowledge and skills, and we will use local colleges of education to give them special training,” the SUBEB chairman explained.
He emphasized that the test is not intended to punish or sack any teacher but to help them improve. A registration portal will soon open for teachers to submit their credentials.
Prof. Musa appealed to all teachers to cooperate with the process for the benefit of Jigawa’s education sector.