Will issue a set of criteria for evaluating textbooks

The Ministry of Education and Training is seeking opinions on a draft circular regulating a set of criteria for evaluating general education textbooks to implement the policy of one program, many textbooks.

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The set of criteria, once approved, will be the basis for the Textbook Appraisal Councils to appraise books; the Ministry of Education and Training to approve books; guidance for publishers, organizations and individuals to refer to when compiling books to ensure quality according to the requirements of the general education program; teachers and schools to refer to when choosing books approved by the Ministry to teach in schools.

The set of criteria includes 39 criteria, divided into 5 groups: Prerequisites (4 criteria); objectives, principles, teaching and testing methods, and evaluation (11 criteria); knowledge content (14 criteria); book format and presentation (8 criteria); teaching materials and equipment (2 criteria).

The use of a set of criteria to evaluate textbooks must be based on the subject program issued by the Ministry of Education and Training and must ensure two principles at the same time: Books that are rated "Passed" in all criteria in group I will be considered for evaluation in the next groups of criteria.

The criteria of Group II, III, IV, V are evaluated according to the score levels of 0 (zero); 1 (one); 2 (two), which is essentially the evaluation method of "Pass" - 1 (one) point and "Fail" - 0 (zero) points, level 2 (two) points for books that "Pass well" the evaluation criteria.

A book is considered qualified if it simultaneously satisfies three conditions: Has a total score of at least 50 points, no criteria are rated 0 points, and the criteria groups have the following minimum scores: Group II: 16 points; Group III: 21 points; Group IV: 10 points; Group V: 03 points. The detailed assessment of the score for each criterion is guided in the Appendix issued with the Circular.

For a book to be evaluated as “Passed”, all criteria must be evaluated as “Passed” – No criteria must be evaluated as 0 (zero) points; at the same time, the book must meet the minimum threshold for each group of evaluation criteria, meaning that the Criteria Set has weighted requirements of different levels of importance (High requirements for knowledge content; Objectives, principles, teaching methods and assessment. While lower requirements for book form, criteria for learning materials and teaching equipment); at the same time, the overall quality of the book must meet the “Fair” quality level or higher (70%/total score).

The criteria set encourages publishers, organizations and individuals to compile books of the highest quality because the evaluation results will influence the book selection of educational institutions, parents and students (books with a higher score will be selected more).

According to Chinhphu.vn