Nguyen Du Secondary School (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) is one of the schools with many innovative forms of student assessment and testing.
Innovative assessment promotes and encourages students to actively learn
Accordingly, teachers in Ho Chi Minh City have innovated testing and assessing students' learning processes using many different forms and methods to obtain two-way feedback. Thanks to that, teachers know the strengths and weaknesses of students in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, thereby adjusting teaching methods accordingly.
The innovation in testing and assessment also creates motivation to innovate teaching methods for teachers, enhances their sense of responsibility to the profession and to students, and at the same time improves the quality of teaching activities. Students can self-assess their knowledge and skills, and control their learning to change their learning style to help improve their learning results.
Leaders of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City commented that the assessment is not only based on scores but also on qualitative comments during the teaching process, helping to make the assessment results more accurate and have a motivating effect. Encourage students to actively study.
Through student assessment results, the professional team and school leaders adjust management and come up with appropriate solutions such as: regularly organize class observations, visit classes, learn from experience; Professional activities with rich and practical content; Educating awareness, self-study, fostering, sharing experiences...
Requires a lot of time and effort from teachers
Besides, the Department of Education and Training pointed out difficulties. For example, when conducting non-score assessments, teachers do not know how to record students' results for science to use as proof of what they have done (even though they know This assessment is beneficial to the student and is comprehensive.)
Using many forms, methods, and assessment tools requires a lot of time and effort from teachers. Therefore, with the norm of 17 lessons/week, it is difficult for teachers to do well in both innovating teaching methods and innovating assessment and testing. With objective multiple-choice test questions, mixing the questions to resemble the high school graduation exam (easy parts first, difficult parts later) is making it difficult for teachers.
Students are always interested in new forms of assessment
School leaders need to accompany teachers on innovating teaching methods
From the above difficulties, Mr. Nguyen Bao Quoc, Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City, assessed that innovating teaching methods must be a voluntary process of teachers themselves and in accordance with the requirements. request from educational authorities. Innovating teaching methods is a long and arduous process for every teacher. This process requires teachers to give up some teaching habits that are no longer appropriate when using active teaching methods, teachers no longer play the role of simply conveying and informing knowledge.
Teachers become designers, organizers, and guides of independent activities so that students can dominate the learning content themselves. Teachers are responsible for guiding students in learning methods, how to self-study, acquire knowledge and practice skills, self-assess their learning results, and know how to receive feedback from assessment. Students' comments on their educational methods. Teachers can choose one or a combination of assessment methods that suit the assessment goals and intentions, meet the requirements of students' capacity development orientation, in order to comprehensively develop capacity and learner qualities.
The Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training in charge of expertise also recommended that school leaders strive to be pioneers or accompany teachers in innovating teaching methods. Persistently organize and guide teachers to implement innovation, take care of and strengthen conditions and facilities for innovating teaching methods as well as properly organize the collection of opinions from teachers and students. about the quality of teaching and education of each teacher in the school. Correctly evaluate the qualifications, abilities and appropriateness of teaching methods of each teacher in the school, thereby promptly encouraging and rewarding teachers who implement effective innovations.
According to Mr. Quoc, schools must pay attention and invest resources to innovate teacher training and build a team of core teachers for each subject. This team must be qualified and reputable in terms of expertise and expertise, and have enough capacity to help teachers train according to the training materials of the Department and the Ministry of Education and Training. Promote the organization of seminars, seminars, lectures, learning exchanges, and exchange of experiences between teachers of units in the school cluster to help each other overcome obstacles and difficulties in teaching. Implement innovative teaching methods.
Schools need to organize training and focus on training teachers in new methods, techniques, and forms of assessment; Step by step change habits, guide how to set questions, open tests, follow the competency approach, avoid stereotypes.
