Consolidation of academic assessment results for primary school students in Vietnam

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1. Consolidation of academic assessment results for primary school students in Vietnam

According to Article 9 of the Regulations issued together with Circular 27/2020/TT-BGDDT, the consolidation of academic assessment results for primary school students in Vietnam is as follows:

- 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 teachers shall rely on periodic assessment and level of completion of periodic assessment of subjects and academic activities to consolidate and record academic assessment results in records for class academic assessment results.

+ Class mentors shall rely on regular assessment results and level of completion from periodic assessment regarding primary traits and capacities of students to consolidate and specify academic assessment results of students in records for class academic assessment results.

- At the end of a school year, based on consolidated assessment results of each subjects, academic activities and primary traits, capacities, class mentors shall:

+ Assess academic results of students by 4 levels:

++ Excellent completion: Students who achieve excellent scores in assessment results of subjects, academic activities; good in traits and capacities; at least 9 score in periodic final exams of subjects;

++ Good completion: Students who fail to achieve excellent completion but achieve good scores in assessment results of subjects, academic activities; good in traits and capacities; at least 7 score in periodic final exams of subjects;

++ Completion: Students who fail to achieve excellent and good completion but achieve good or completion scores in assessment results of subjects, academic activities; good or satisfied in traits and capacities; at least 5 score in periodic final exams of subjects;

++ No completion: Other students.

+ Specify feedback, academic assessment results and achievements of students receiving appraisal in a school year in study records. 

2. Instructions for periodic assessment for primary school students in Vietnam

Instructions for periodic assessment for primary school students in Vietnam according to Article 7 of the Regulations issued with Circular 27/2020/TT-BGDDT are as follows:

- 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.

- 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.

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