Who gives the most important assessments to primary school students in Vietnam?

Who gives the most important assessments to primary school students in Vietnam?

Under Article 4 of Circular 27/2020/TT-BGDDT, the requirements for assessing primary school students in Vietnam are as follows:

Assessment requirements

1. Assess students via level of satisfaction of requirements and specific display of capacities in subjects, academic activities, traits and capabilities of students required by formal primary education program. 

2. Conduct regular assessment by feedback, periodic assessment in form of scores in combination with comments; combine assessment of teachers, students, students' parents in which teachers’ assessment holds the highest priority.

3. Assess progression and do so for the progression of students; emphasize encouragement and motivation of efforts in studying and training of students; assist students in making the best of their capabilities and efforts; guarantee timeliness, fairness and transparency; refrain from comparing one student to another, refrain from pressuring students, teachers or students' parents.

Under the above regulations, it will conduct regular assessment by feedback, periodic assessment in the form of scores in combination with comments; combine assessment of teachers, students, and students' parents in which teachers’ assessment holds the highest priority.

Thus, according to the above regulations, in the assessment of primary school students, the teacher's assessment is the most important.

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What are the assessment criteria and methods for primary school students in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 5 of Circular 27/2020/ND-CP, the regulations are as follows:

Assessment criteria

- Assess learning process, progression and academic results of students satisfying requirements and specific display of capacities of each subject and academic activities according to formal primary education programs.

- Assess formation and development of traits and capacities of students via following primary traits and capacities:

+ Primary traits: patriotism, humane, diligence, honesty, and sense of responsibility.

+ Primary capacities:

+) General capacities: self-control, self-studying, communication, cooperation, problem resolution and creativity;

+) Specific capacities: language, calculation, science, technology, computer, aesthetic, and physical attributes.

Assessment Methods

Several assessment methods commonly used include:

+ Assessment by observation: Teachers monitor and listen to students when teaching in classes, employ observation cards, examination boards and records of student's behaviors as proof for assessment of studying and training processes of students.

+ Assessment by academic records, products and activities of students: Teachers provide feedback and assessment regarding products and activity results of students thereby assessing students based on relevant assessment criteria.

+ Assessment by communication: Teachers discuss with students in form of questions and answers to collect information and promptly provide comment, remedial measures.

+ Assessment by writing: Teachers employ tests consisting of questions and exercises designed according to levels and requirements to be achieved of the program in form of multiple-choice questions and writing tests to assess level of completion for academic assessment criteria. 

What are the regulations on the periodic assessment of primary school students in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 7 of Circular 27/2020/ND-CP, the regulations are as follows:

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

- 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;

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

2. Periodic assessment for formation and development of traits and capacities

In the middle of the first semester, in the middle of the second semester and at the end of a school year, class mentors shall cooperate with other teachers teaching in their classes in providing assessment as follows according to feedback and display during regular assessment for formation and development of primary traits and capacities of students:

- Good: Satisfy academic requirements well, display clearly and frequently.

- Satisfied: Satisfy academic requirements, be able to display but not frequently.

- Further efforts required: Fail to adequately satisfy academic requirements, be able to display but not clearly.