Carefully prepare to deploy large-scale assessment for grades 5, 9, and 11

GD&TĐ - On the morning of October 24, the Steering Committee of the Wide-Scale Assessment Program for grades 5, 9, and 11 for the period 2024-2027 met to give opinions on the official survey plan for 2026.

On October 22, 2024, in Decision No. 3052/QD-BGDDT, the Ministry of Education and Training issued a Master Plan to organize the implementation of the National Periodic Assessment Program on learning outcomes of students in grades 5, 9, and 11 for the period 2024-2027.

Next, in Decision No. 48/QD-QLCL, dated February 18, 2025, the Director of the Department of Quality Management issued a detailed plan to implement the 2025 tasks for the National Periodic Assessment Program on learning outcomes of students in grades 5, 9, and 11 in 2025.

According to the report at the meeting, up to now, the Department of Quality Management has closely coordinated with specialized departments and bureaus under the Ministry to organize the implementation of tasks to ensure progress, quality and efficiency according to Plan No. 3052/QD-BGDDT and Plan No. 48/QD-QLCL.

Completing the Research Framework of the survey toolkit ensures science , quality, and compliance with the provisions of Circular 51/2011/TT-BGDDT.

The work of marking/coding the results of the pilot survey and entering the data of the questionnaire ensures progress and accuracy. The process of marking/coding the results is initially evaluated as strict, quite scientific, inheriting advanced methods in the world and suitable for Vietnam, easy to apply.

Working sessions (workshops to review experiences after the pilot survey, meetings to discuss survey topics, matrix review, subject specifications) were organized as planned, with sufficient and correct number of delegates attending; the delegates' opinions reflected the reality... serving as a basis for perfecting the survey toolset and process.

At the meeting, members of the Steering Committee discussed and gave opinions on completing the Research Framework for the survey toolkit; survey questions, sample size, survey time, implementation conditions, implementation resources, etc.

Mr. Huynh Van Chuong delivered a concluding speech at the meeting.

Concluding the meeting, Mr. Huynh Van Chuong - Director of the Department of Quality Management, Permanent Deputy Head of the Steering Committee highly appreciated the implementation results over the past time.

In the coming time, the tasks that need to be focused on are completing the Research Framework according to the comments of the units, promptly submitting it to the leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training for consideration and approval; continuing to complete the activities of the pilot survey (analyzing, processing data and building a survey results report); reviewing and completing the survey toolkit for the official survey, ensuring accuracy, science, meeting practical needs, differentiating students' abilities and closely following the 2018 General Education Program.

Along with that, develop and issue a detailed plan for the 2026 assessment program, focusing on organizing an official survey; review and develop a plan for the information technology platform to serve the official survey.

The goal is to conduct a serious survey, ensuring quality, but not creating pressure; the survey results are objective, accurately assessing students' abilities, thereby serving as a basis for proposing solutions and policies to innovate teaching and learning activities to meet the requirements of implementing the General Education Program.

In the past and in the coming years, Vietnam has participated and will continue to participate in many international assessment programs such as PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment for 15-year-olds of the OECD); SEA-PLM (Programme for Assessment of Primary School Students in Southeast Asia); TALIS (Programme for International Assessment of Teaching and Learning of the OECD). These programs are all chaired by the Ministry of Education and Training, and at the same time, they are guided to be implemented seriously, synchronously and uniformly nationwide to provinces, cities and educational institutions.

On December 18, 2024, the Ministry of Education and Training issued Decision No. 4033/BGDDT on the establishment of the Steering Committee and the Secretariat to assist the Steering Committee of the National Periodic Assessment Program for Learning Outcomes of Grades 5, 9, and 11 for the period 2024-2027. Accordingly, the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee consists of 11 members; of which Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong is the Head of the Committee; Director of the Department of Quality Management Huynh Van Chuong is the Standing Deputy Head of the Committee.

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