What is the newest summary table of the 04 assessment levels for primary school students in Vietnam? How many levels are there for periodic exam questions of primary school students in Vietnam?

What is the newest summary table of the 04 assessment levels for primary school students in Vietnam?

Under Article 9 of the Regulation on the Assessment of Primary School Students issued along with Circular 27/2020/TT-BGDDT, primary school students are assessed by four levels as follows:

Thus, the assessment of primary school students shall follow the four levels described above.

What is the newest summary table of the 04 assessment levels for primary school students in Vietnam? How many levels are there for periodic exam questions of primary school students in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)

What are the objectives of the assessment of primary school students in Vietnam?

According to Article 3 of the Regulation on the Assessment of Primary School Students, issued with Circular 27/2020/TT-BGDDT, the objectives of the assessment of primary school students in Vietnam are defined as follows:

Assessment objectives

The assessment aims to provide information accurately, promptly, identify studying and training results depending on requirements on formal primary education program and progression of students to guide academic activities, adjust teaching activities to improve education quality, to be specific:

1. Assist teachers in adjusting and renovating organization format and education methods in teaching and academic processes; promptly acknowledge efforts and progress of students to motivate, encourage and detect insurmountable obstacles of students to guide, support in order to improve studying and training effectiveness of students; in part to implement objectives of primary education level.  

2. Help students develop ability to self-reflect, reflect, self-study, adjust studying methods, communicate, cooperate, interest in learning and training for improvement.

3. Assist student’s parents or guardians (hereinafter referred to as “student’s parents”) in assessing studying, training progress and results, processes of forming and developing traits, capacities of students; actively cooperating with schools in educating students.

4. Assist education management officials of all levels to promptly direct education activities, renovate teaching methods and assessment methods to achieve education effectiveness.

5. Assist social organization in acknowledging accurate and objective information, develop social sources for investment in development of education.

Thus, the assessment of primary school students in Vietnam aims to provide information accurately, promptly, identify studying and training results depending on requirements on formal primary education program and progression of students to guide academic activities, adjust teaching activities to improve education quality.

How many levels are there for periodic exam questions of primary school students in Vietnam?

Instead of the four levels of assessment previously prescribed in Circular 22/2016, the regulation in Article 7 of Circular 27/2020/TT-BGDDT stipulates only three levels:

Periodic assessment

1. Periodic assessment for academic contents of subjects and academic activities.

a) In the middle of the first semester, at the end of the first semester, in the middle of the second semester and at the end of a school year, subject specialist teachers rely on regular assessment, requirements to be achieved, specific display of capacities of each subject and academic activities to assess students in each subject and academic activity as follows: 

- Good completion: excellently achieve academic requirements and regularly display specific capacities of subjects or academic activities;

- Completion: achieve academic requirements and display specific capacities of subjects or academic activities;

- Incompletion: fail to achieve any academic requirement or fail to display specific capacities of subjects or academic activities;

b) At the end of the first semester and at the end of a school year, organize periodic examination for compulsory subjects: Vietnamese literature, Mathematics, Foreign language 1, History and Geography, Computer and Technology;

For students in 4th grade or 5th grade, organize additional periodic examination for Vietnamese literature and Mathematics in between the first semester and the second semester.

c) Periodic exam questions must conform to requirements to be achieved and specific display of capacities of subjects and consist of questions and exercises designed in levels as follows:

- Level 1: Recognize, repeat or describe learned contents and adopt to deal with several familiar situations and issues in learning;

- Level 2: Connect and arrange learned contents to deal with similar issues;

- Level 3: Apply learned contents to deal with new issues or provide reasonable responses in learning and life.

d) Exam papers shall be corrected, commented and marked by teachers on a scale of 10 (no decimal allowed) and returned to students. Scores of periodic exam cannot be used for comparison among students. If results of exams taken place at the end of the first semester and at the end of a school year show irregularities compared to regular assessment, teachers shall request schools to organize additional examination for accurate assessment of students’ academic results.

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Thus, periodic exam questions must conform to requirements to be achieved and specific display of capacities of subjects and consist of questions and exercises designed in levels as follows:

- Level 1: Recognize, repeat or describe learned contents and adopt to deal with several familiar situations and issues in learning;

- Level 2: Connect and arrange learned contents to deal with similar issues;

- Level 3: Apply learned contents to deal with new issues or provide reasonable responses in learning and life.