Are continuing education students at the lower secondary level absent from school for more than 45 half-days eligible for grade advancement in Vietnam?

Are continuing education students at the lower secondary level absent from school for more than 45 half-days eligible for grade advancement in Vietnam?

Under Clause 1, Article 11 of the Regulation on assessment of students of the Continuing Education Program at lower and upper secondary levels issued together with Circular 43/2021/TT-BGDDT, the eligibility requirements for grade advancement for continuing education students are stipulated as follows:

Grade advancement, subject to re-Assessment during the summer, grade retention/repetition

1. Students who fully meet the following conditions may be advanced or recognized to have completed the lower secondary education program or the upper secondary education program:

a) The conduct for the whole school year (including the results of re-Assessment during the summer vacation as prescribed in Article 13 of this Circular) is assessed at Passed or higher.

b) The learning results for the whole school year (including the results of re-Assessment of subjects as prescribed in Article 13 of this Circular) are assessed at Passed or higher.

c) Absence from school for no more than 45 days in a school year (according to the education plan 01 lesson/day specified in the Continuing Education Program, including excused and unexcused absences, consecutive or inconsecutive absences).

2. In case students have to practice during the summer vacation, the provisions of Article 12 of this Circular shall be complied with; students who have their subjects re-examined and re-evaluated in the summer vacation shall comply with the provisions of Article 13 of this Circular.

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According to the above regulations, continuing education students at the lower secondary level who are absent from school for more than 45 half-days (according to the education plan 01 lesson/day specified in the Continuing Education Program, including excused and unexcused absences, consecutive or inconsecutive absences) are not eligible for grade advancement in Vietnam.

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In Vietnam, how many assessment forms for continuing education students at the lower secondary level are there?

According to Article 5 of the Regulation on assessment of students of the Continuing Education Program at lower and upper secondary levels issued together with Circular 43/2021/TT-BGDDT on assessment forms:

1. Assessment via feedback

- Teachers use oral or written form to comment on students' performance of learning and training tasks; comment on the students' progress, outstanding advantages and limitations in the process of regulating learning and training; assess the learning and training results of students.

- Students use oral or written form to self-review their performance of learning and training tasks, their progress, outstanding advantages, and their main limitations.

- Students' parents or agencies, organizations and individuals involved in the student's education process provide feedback on the student's performance of learning and training tasks.

- Assessment via feedback on the learning and training results of students is used in regular assessment by assessing students' performance of learning and training tasks suitably to the characteristics of the subject.

2. Assessment via scores

- Teachers use scores to assess students' learning and training results.

- Score assessment is used in regular assessment, periodical assessment through the form of testing, assessing students' performance of learning and training tasks in accordance with the characteristics of the subject.

(3) Assessment for subjects

Assessment by feedback combined with scores are used for subjects in the Continuing Education Program; learning results by subject are assessed by scores on a 10-point scale, if using another scale, they must be converted to a 10-point scale. Assessment scores are integers or decimals taken to the first decimal place after rounding.

What are the regulations on the regular assessment of continuing education students at the lower secondary level in Vietnam?

Under Article 6 of Circular 43/2021/TT-BGDDT, the regular assessment of continuing education students at the lower secondary level in Vietnam is regulated as follows:

- Regular assessment is done through: question-answer, writing, presentation, practice, experiment, learning product.

- For each subject, each student is tested and assessed many times, in which a number of tests and assessments are selected in accordance with the teaching progress according to the educational plan of the professional group, and the results are recorded in the student monitoring and assessment book (by class) for use in assessing the learning results of the subject as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 9 of Circular 43/2021/TT-BGDDT. For each subject (excluding groups of learning topics), choose the number of regular assessment scores in each semester as follows:

+ The subject has 35 periods/school year: 02 regular assessment scores.

+ The subject has from 36 periods/school year to 70 periods/school year: 03 regular assessment scores.

+ The subject has 71 periods/year or more: 04 regular assessment scores.

- For a group of learning topics of a subject at the upper secondary level, each student is examined and assessed according to each learning topic, in which the result of 01 (one) test and assessment are selected as the result of the group of learning topics. The result of the assessment of a group of learning topics of the subject are counted as the result of 01 (one) regular assessment of that subject and recorded in the student monitoring and assessment book (by class) for use in the assessment of learning results in the subject according to Clause 1, Article 9 of Circular 43/2021/TT-BGDDT