GSQT – HCMC Department of Education and Training requires schools to diversify the form of the internal and external testing. Teachers may use a variety of assessments instead of current standards.

HCMC Department of Education and Training has just issued guidance to implement the renovation of education planning, teaching innovation and school assessment in the 2019-2020 school year.

The teachers build a plan to test and assess the learning results of students in accordance with the educational plan and activities for the students’ orientation, capacity and quality.

Diversification for the form of the internal and external testing can be done regularly for all students in various forms: assessment through observation of classroom activities; assessment through academic records, notebooks or learning products; assessment by students reporting the results of a project such as scientific and technical research, experiments, lessons learned outside the school; judging by the presentation about the performance of the learning task…

The department emphasizes that teachers can use the above assessment forms in place of the internal and external testing.

For regular tests more than 45 minutes (1 period), the teachers need requirements for awareness, comprehension, application, high utilization for each type of exercises.

They can build the content to cover the broad, approach to student competency assessment, gradually increase the types of questions related to solving problems in the real life.

The logical combination between theoretical and practical tests can be continued to improve the requirement of applying interdisciplinary knowledge into practice, meanwhile encourage open-ended, topical questions for social sciences and humanities subjects in order to help students to express their views on economic, political and social issues.