Ministry of Education officially amends Circular 30

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued Circular 22/2016/TT-BGDDT amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulations on Primary School Student Assessment (issued together with the previous Circular No. 30/2014/TT-BGDDT).

Evaluate students at 3 levels

After the time for collecting opinions on the revised draft, the Ministry of Education and Training did not apply the A, B, C assessment levels as previously planned. Instead, there are the levels: Good completion, completed and incomplete.

Circular 30 previously had only two assessment levels: completed and incomplete.

Specifically, in Circular 22, periodic assessment has the following amendments and supplements: In the middle and end of semester I, in the middle of semester II and at the end of the school year, teachers, based on the regular assessment process and knowledge and skill standards, assess students for each subject and educational activity according to the following levels: Completed well (fulfilled the learning requirements of the subject or educational activity); Completed (fulfilled the learning requirements of the subject or educational activity) and Incomplete (not yet fulfilled some learning requirements of the subject or educational activity).

At the end of the first semester and the end of the school year, there will be periodic tests for the subjects: Vietnamese, Math, Science, History and Geography, Foreign Languages, Information Technology, and Ethnic Languages.

For grades 4 and 5, there will be additional periodic tests for Vietnamese and Math in the middle of semester I and mid-semester II. This is an important change in Circular 22, aiming to help teachers, education managers, and parents have more information about students' learning process in these two subjects. Students will also gradually become familiar with the assessment methods of the next level of education.

The test is corrected by the teacher, commented on, graded on a 10-point scale, no zeros, no decimal points, and returned to the student.

The scores of the periodic test are not used to compare one student with another. If the results of the first semester and the end of the school year test are unusual compared to the regular assessment, the teacher can suggest to the school that the student take another test to properly assess the learning results...

Circular 22 also stipulates that through the regular assessment process at the middle and end of each semester, each capacity and quality is quantified into three levels: Good, Achieved, Need to try (previously according to Circular 30 there were only 2 levels: Achieved and Not achieved).

Reduce paperwork

According to Circular 22, the education quality monitoring book will be replaced by a summary table of education assessment results, and there are no rigid regulations on any type of book used in the student assessment process.

Teachers are empowered to monitor student progress, taking notes with students who have incomplete content or are outstanding in order to grasp the information themselves and use it when needed.

Specifically, between semesters and at the end of semesters, teachers record the results of students' educational assessment in the Summary Table of Educational Assessment Results of the class. The Summary Table of Educational Assessment Results of the classes is kept at the school according to regulations.

At the end of the school year, the homeroom teacher records the student's educational assessment results in the Student Record. The Student Record is kept by the school throughout the student's time at the school and is given to the student upon completion of primary school or transfer to another school.

Circular 22 stipulates rewards for students who have excellently completed learning and training contents and students who have outstanding achievements or remarkable progress in each assessment content.

Circular 22 also stipulates the responsibility of directing the creation of periodic test questions for principals, overcoming the shortcomings in the previous implementation of Circular 30.

The homeroom teacher will inform parents privately about the results of the assessment of each student's learning and training process.

This revised circular also clearly states the principal's responsibility: "Respect teachers' autonomy in implementing student assessment regulations."

It is known that in the coming time, the Ministry of Education and Training will direct the implementation of training, guidance, and widespread propaganda to clarify issues that teachers may still have concerns or difficulties in implementation.

According to VNN