What are the forms of assessment in the continuing education program in Vietnam?

What are the forms of assessment in the continuing education program in Vietnam?

Under the upper secondary-level continuing education program issued together with Circular 12/2022/TT-BGDDT, the forms of assessment in the upper secondary-level continuing education program in Vietnamare stipulated as follows:

Assessment includes: Regular assessment and periodic assessment.

- Regular assessment is conducted continuously throughout the teaching process, organized by the subject teacher; forms of assessment include teacher's assessments for students, students' assessments for each other, and self-assessments of students.

To conduct regular assessments, teachers can rely on daily observation and records about students, students' responses to questions or presentations, writing analyses and feedback on literature, reports, resource project work, research assignments, etc.

- Periodic assessment is conducted at the end of a semester or educational level by the educational institution to serve the purpose of managing teaching activities, ensuring educational quality, and developing programs and learning materials. Periodic assessment usually involves written tests or examination papers.

Question papers or tests may require scipts (one or multiple questions); they can combine multiple-choice questions and essay questions to assess comprehension and require writing essays on any topic in the learned text types.

Oral examinations (to assess speaking and listening) can be applied if deemed necessary and feasible. In assessing academic results at the end of the school year or educational level, assessment methods should be renewed (proposal structure, questioning style, level differentiation, etc.); utilize and exploit text corpus to ensure the assessment of students' abilities, addressing the issue of students merely memorizing lessons or copying available materials; avoid reusing previously studied text corpus to accurately assess comprehension and analysis skills, and appreciation of literary works.

- The assessment must be conducted under the principle that students can reveal and express traits, language abilities, literary capabilities, imaginative and logical thinking, personal thoughts, and feelings; encourage individuality and creativity in writing. Students should be guided to understand and grasp the goals, methods, and criteria used to assess these traits and abilities.

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How many lessons does the Literature curriculum of the continuing education program in Vietnam include?

Under the upper secondary-level continuing education program issued together with Circular 12/2022/TT-BGDDT, the allocation of time for the Literature curriculum of the continuing education program in Vietnam is stipulated as follows:

The Literature curriculum of the upper secondary-level continuing education program applies to grades 10, 11, and 12 with a total of 105 lessons per academic year; conducted over 35 weeks per academic year. Additionally, the Literature curriculum of the continuing education program in Vietnam includes 35 lessons per grade.

What are the requirements for text corpus in the upper secondary-level continuing education program in Vietnam?

Under the upper secondary-level continuing education program issued together with Circular 12/2022/TT-BGDDT, the requirements for text corpus in the upper secondary-level continuing education program are as follows:

- Ensure a reasonable proportion between literary texts, argumentative texts, and informational texts. In literary texts, attention should be paid to maintaining a relative balance between the basic genres (story, poetry, memoir, drama), between classical and modern literature, between folklore and written literature, between Kinh ethnic literature and minority ethnic literature, between Vietnamese literature and foreign literature, between East and West.

“Balance” is understood as a suitable proportion, not an equal ratio. The materials for all classes must include both prose and poetry texts. Besides prose and poetry, each educational level must have texts of either memoir or drama. Repeated use of a text in various classes or levels should be limited.

- Ensure the appropriateness of text with the developmental requirements and study time of the program. The difficulty of reading texts increases progressively through each academic year.

The time allocated to teach a text must correspond to its length and complexity, ensuring that teachers can help students fully and deeply access the text, providing students the opportunity to read the chosen works directly and completely. Limiting the teaching of excerpts is encouraged, except in cases of large literary works such as novels, memoirs, epics, for example, The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du.

- Ensure continuity and development of existing Vietnamese Literature programs. The program is based on nine authors and the literary works studied in the current program and textbooks, selecting and supplementing some authors and works that hold important positions, representing national literary achievements across lessons, for teaching in schools at three levels:

+ Compulsory works (mandatory for textbook authors and teachers to implement according to the program's stipulations);

+ Optional compulsory works (textbook authors must select works from authors listed in the program's stipulated catalog);

+ Suggested optional works (textbook authors freely select works from the program's suggested list). Specifically, for three authors Nguyen Trai, Nguyen Du, and Ho Chi Minh at the high educational level, there are additional summarizing introductions about the literary authors.

Based on the required outcomes for each grade and the specified list of compulsory works and optional compulsory works, textbook authors choose additional suitable texts recommended either within or outside the suggested list at the end of the program. Teachers and students are encouraged to select additional texts aligning with program requirements and age group for group or class discussions.

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