Posts

Showing posts with the label examinations

Featured

Lists of Ewe names and their meanings

Image
In the Ghanaian community and bringing it down to the Ewes, names are specifically given for different reasons. The main reason why names among this tribe are never taken for granted is that the names normally have a direct impact on the bearers. Names are given for a reason since they reflect or have an influence on the people to whom they are given. All names have meanings they represent and Ghanaian names and specifically Ewe names are not an exception.  You will be enlightened on some of these Ewe names and their various meanings. In fact, this article gives you an idea of what some Ewe names mean. Names are like organic components of the people per the people's beliefs.    We believe that individuals become the name they are given and for this reason, names are chosen carefully before being given to individuals. Some of the names are just given to show the day of the week a person is born whereas some show the circumstances around a person's birth. Below are some nam...

Why students fear assessments? Are examinations supposed to induce fear or discipline in students?

Image
The dread of most students is normally during the periods of examination and the kind of meaning given to examination now has generated unnecessary fear in many people and specifically those in the academic environment. Some believe one cause of this unusual fear can be allocated to the kind of exposure in terms of advice and training a student might have undergone. Has it turned out to be true that the true meaning of education is being overshadowed, by some empty sensual assumptions that cannot even be explained? Right from the basic level of education, some pupils are almost always afraid when it is time for examination, and some also due to the fears fall sick among other terrible experiences. It is high time the true meaning of education is understood and imbibed into the mind of everyone so that it becomes part of the personality of people who have something to do with education in order to walk in a unique way to attain the desired success.  Education is acquiring knowledge ...