The Ministry of Education officially amends Circular 30.

The Ministry of Education and Training has recently issued Circular 22/2016/TT-BGDĐT, amending and supplementing several articles of the Regulations on the Assessment of Primary School Students (issued together with Circular No. 30/2014/TT-BGDĐT previously).

Assess students using a 3-point scale.

After a period of soliciting feedback on the revised draft, the Ministry of Education and Training decided not to apply the A, B, C grading system as previously planned. Instead, the system will use the following levels: Excellent, Completed, and Not Completed.

Circular 30 previously only had two assessment levels: completed and not completed.

Specifically, Circular 22 amends and supplements the following periodic assessments: In the middle and end of the first semester, in the middle of the second semester, and at the end of the school year, teachers will base their assessments on the ongoing assessment process and knowledge and skills standards to evaluate students for each subject and educational activity according to the following levels: Excellent (successfully fulfilling the learning requirements of the subject or educational activity); Completed (fulfilling the learning requirements of the subject or educational activity); and Not Completed (not fulfilling some learning requirements of the subject or educational activity).

At the end of the first semester and the end of the school year, there are periodic tests for the following subjects: Vietnamese Language, Mathematics, Science, History and Geography, Foreign Language, Informatics, and Ethnic Minority Language.

For grades 4 and 5, there will be additional periodic tests in Vietnamese and Mathematics in the middle of the first and second semesters. This is a significant change in Circular 22, aimed at providing teachers, education administrators, and parents with more information about students' learning progress in these two subjects. Students will also gradually become familiar with the assessment methods of the next educational level.

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

Periodic test scores are not used to compare one student to another. If the results of the end-of-semester and end-of-year tests differ from regular assessments, the teacher may propose to the school that the student be given another test to accurately assess their learning outcomes…

Circular 22 also stipulates that through regular assessments at the middle and end of each semester, each competency and quality is quantified into three levels: Good, Satisfactory, and Needs Improvement (previously, according to Circular 30, there were only two levels: Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory).

Reduce paperwork.

According to Circular 22, the educational quality monitoring logbook will be replaced by a summary table of educational assessment results, and there will be no rigid regulations specifying any particular type of logbook to be used in the student assessment process.

Teachers are empowered to monitor student progress, taking notes on students who have unfinished tasks or who possess exceptional abilities, in order to independently grasp the information and use it when needed.

Specifically, at the middle and end of each semester, teachers record students' educational assessment results in the Class Educational Assessment Summary Table. The Class Educational Assessment Summary Tables are kept at the school as per regulations.

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

Circular 22 stipulates that awards should be given to students who excel in all aspects of learning and training, and to students who achieve outstanding results or make exceptional progress in each assessment area.

Circular 22 also stipulates the responsibility of school principals to direct the preparation of periodic test questions, addressing the shortcomings of the previous implementation under Circular 30.

The homeroom teacher will privately inform parents about the results of each student's academic and behavioral assessment.

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

It is understood that in the coming period, the Ministry of Education and Training will direct the implementation of training, guidance, and widespread dissemination of information to clarify issues that teachers may still have concerns or difficulties in implementing.

According to VNN