Ministry of Education and Training bans student quality surveys at the beginning of the school year

This is one of the contents that the Ministry of Education and Training requires localities to implement in the new school year in the document Guiding tasks for the new school year.

The Ministry of Education and Training has just sent a document to the Departments of Education and Training and high schools nationwide regarding the new school year's tasks.

Accordingly, the key task in the new school year is to continue implementing the Action Program to implement Resolution 29 on fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training.

In addition, continue to innovate teaching methods and student assessment to promote students' positivity, proactiveness, creativity and practice self-study methods.

Enhance practical skills, skills to solve practical problems, diversify learning methods, focus on creative experiential activities, scientific research of students...

The Ministry of Education said that this new school year will continue to implement the new school model at the secondary school level for grade 7 and expand the new school model to grade 6.

The most notable thing in the document on the school year's tasks is the innovation in testing and assessment methods. Accordingly, strictly implementing no entrance exams for grade 6, no survey of students at the beginning of the year.

Focus on regular assessment for all students; assessment through classroom activities, assessment through learning portfolios, notebooks; assessment through students reporting the results of a learning project, scientific and technical research, reporting the results of practice; assessment through presentations. Teachers can use these assessments to replace current tests.

In addition, there are still assessments during the teaching process and final assessments at the end of the semester and school year, assessments by teachers and assessments, comments and feedback from students, parents and the community.

Seriously develop exam and test questions according to the matrix. The exam includes questions and exercises (essay or multiple choice) according to 4 required levels;

Recognition: repeat or correctly describe learned knowledge and skills.

Comprehension: correctly express knowledge or describe learned skills in language in one's own way, can add activities of analysis, explanation, comparison, directly apply known knowledge and skills to solve situations and problems in learning.

Application: connect and rearrange learned knowledge and skills to successfully solve situations and problems similar to learned situations and problems.

High application: applying knowledge and skills to solve new situations and problems, different from the ones that have been instructed, giving reasonable responses to new situations and problems in study and in life.

Based on the level of students' capacity development in each semester and each grade, teachers and schools determine the proportion of questions and exercises according to 4 levels of requirements in the tests on the principle of ensuring suitability for the students and gradually increasing the proportion of questions and exercises at the level of high application requirements.

According to GiaoducVietnam