Improving education quality with 'real learning, real testing'

Don't chase after achievements

This school year, teacher Dinh Thanh Tu - a Natural Science teacher at Nghi Duc Secondary School (Vinh city) has to teach many grades from 7 to 9 at the same time and he is setting a goal that each class must have 20 - 30% of students achieving excellent academic performance.

To achieve this result, teacher Dinh Thanh Tu said: In addition to ensuring the required program after each lesson, we let students practice and correct exercises regularly. If any student has weak or average academic performance, we must provide tutoring and support. Teachers must also regularly train themselves to improve their professional capacity. In addition, we must motivate, encourage and inspire students.

Last school year, in the 10th grade entrance exam, among more than 400 participating schools, Nghi Duc Secondary School (Vinh city) ranked 7th in the city and 26th in the province with an average score of 7.21 points.

This year, to ensure quality with the commitment to equal and exceed the previous school year, the school set a target of achieving an average score of 7.3 points. Talking about the solutions, teacher Tran Viet Phuong - Principal of the school said: We assign specific tasks to each teacher for each subject and each class to meet the commitment standards that the school principal signed with the City Department of Education and Training. In addition, we also publicize the commitment content for parents to coordinate implementation.

In the process of implementing professional tasks, we require all teachers of all subjects to have unified teaching and review content, and not have each teacher "preserve" a separate method. In mid-term and final exams, we set common questions, conduct common tests, cross-grade, and the school board directly updates the scores to ensure objectivity and honesty. For daily assessments, we require teachers to update the scores to the system no later than 1 week.

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The school has an internal audit department to check the marking and update of teachers' scores to avoid incorrect marking.

During the implementation process, we determined that there must be pressure for teachers to try their best. But during the implementation process, the school must work together to resolve difficulties and obstacles.

Teacher Tran Viet Phuong - Principal of Nghi Duc Secondary School - Vinh City

In Con Cuong district, talking about solutions to move towards "Real learning, real exams", Mr. Nguyen Nam Giang - Deputy Head of the Department of Education and Training said: Quality is the soul, the honor of schools, therefore, in the process of implementing professional tasks, the Con Cuong Education sector highly values ​​​​the assessment and survey of educational quality by external assessment. Currently, every year we conduct a general survey of the whole district in 3 subjects: Literature, Math, English and the remaining subject will be randomly drawn so that all teachers must be "ready to fight".

The process of making questions is carried out objectively, cross-testing and marking is fair. The survey test scores will be included in the semester exam scores so that teachers and students are not subjective. After each exam, the district will analyze scores across the district by class, school, and teacher and use that as a basis to require teachers to improve teaching quality.

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We can check the quality probability of any class by organizing the questions, marking and announcing the test scores through digital conversion with software-based test questions and computer-based test marking. After only 40 minutes, the results can be published objectively, honestly and accurately.

Mr. Nguyen Nam Giang - Deputy Head of the Department of Education and Training of Con Cuong district

Uneven quality

From 22nd place, Nghe An Education sector has increased by 10 places in the 2024 High School Graduation Exam. This is the result after 4 years of Nghe An implementing solutions to ensure the quality of education at the high school level.

However, toquality of educationTo be maintained and have long-term stability, the implementation of solutions must be done fundamentally from the root. That is to improve the quality of education at all levels, especially at secondary school.

To effectively implement this content, at the beginning of this semester, for the first time, Nghe An Education Department organized a conference for all principals of secondary schools across the province.

In this conference, the achievements, difficulties and shortcomings of secondary education were also dissected and analyzed. For example, according to the results of the 10th grade entrance exam in the last school year, it shows that the quality of education is not uniform and there is a gap between regions.

Specifically, although the average score for the 10th grade entrance exam is 17.87 points, among the 20 districts, cities and towns, the difference between regions is quite clear.

Of which, the locality with the highest score is 21.74 points and is more than 10 points higher than the locality with the lowest score (9.73 points). The whole province has 11 localities with average scores lower than the provincial average.

This also leads to a difference in scores in exam subjects, especially English, with the average score of the whole province only reaching 4.75 points and only 8 units having scores above average or higher.

From these figures, Mr. Nguyen Tien Dung - Head of Secondary Education Department, Department of Education and Training said: We have analyzed many figures to have many different channels to analyze the quality of education in each locality, each school such as 10th grade entrance exam scores, learning rankings, training rankings, and conditions to ensure teaching and learning in schools.

In reality, education in Nghe An still faces many difficulties. This has affected the improvement of teaching and learning quality in schools, especially the shortage of teachers, teachers who teach cross-teaching, part-time teachers, lack of facilities and teaching equipment...

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The Education sector will work with schools and develop practical and effective solutions to remove difficulties for schools.

We also determined that the most important task of this school year is to organize and implement the proposed plan well, and to carry out the issues of quality assurance and inspection in parallel. These are also the core issues to ensure comprehensive and sustainable educational quality in the long term.

Mr. Vo Van Mai - Deputy Director of Department of Education and Training

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