Schools in the US, Australia, and Singapore store information and students’ learning process by electronic accounts, only printing out paper copies when needed.
In Vietnam, the results of students’ annual study and practice are stored in the school records. This document is also a tool for information exchange between teachers, schools and parents; maintained by the school, issued to students only when they complete a grade, drop out or transfer schools.
For decades, the Vietnamese education industry has mainly use paper transcripts to score and comment on students. From 2019, the Ministry of Education and Training deploys more electronic school records. However, this tool There are many shortcomings, cannot replace paper school records. This is the big difference in the way student information is managed in Vietnam compared to many countries around the world.
Schools around the world store student information in electronic accounts. Paper copies still exist, but are only printed when needed.
Master Dinh Thu Hong, a teacher at Georgia State, said that teachers in America Update scores, assessment of work habits as well as conduct criteria of students into electronic accounts on the district’s system. With the subject, teachers can give grades with both numbers and letters (A, B, C, D, F). Work habits are assessed through categories such as Excellent – Excellent, Pass – Satisfactory, Fair – Need Improvement, or Unsatisfactory – Unsatisfactory.
High schools in the same district use the same scorecard system. Each school district may differ in the format and presentation of transcripts, but they are similar in basic requirements such as grades, tests, assessments of work habits and ethics; especially information about giftedness or specific support requirements with the student.
“This is extremely important because when students move schools to another city or state, this information will be necessary for the new school to continue to provide the right support services and curriculum for them,” Ms. Hong said. speak.
Parents can fully view information related to their children through the Parent portal account provided by the school. As a result, parents promptly know their child’s learning status through grades, late or incomplete assignments. Every mid-term or before parent-teacher conferences, teachers will send transcripts to parents by email or on paper.
In addition to information about grades and comments, student accounts also have the number of school days absent, days late for school. Up to high school, the final transcript has the average score of all subjects (GPA) and the rank in the block (rank), serving for graduation.
Professor Ellie Phuong D. Nguyen – teaching at Oklahoma State University, USA (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater) – is an experienced interstate transfer student many times. Her nine-year-old son is currently in third grade in Florida. According to the professor, students in the US from the third grade and up only have official scores, and before that, they were not graded. Each child has their own online account for parents to monitor. Once each term, teachers have a 20-minute private meeting with each parent.
“In the US, when transferring schools, parents only need to give information about the old school so that the new school can contact and transfer learning results,” Phuong said.
Similar to the US, in AustraliaSchools have an online system to manage student information and learning outcomes. Dr To Thi Vinh, Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, said that information is saved online, so when students transfer schools, new schools can access their study history. , if the new school’s online system can connect to the old school.
In the event of a federal transfer, parents may need to sign a “Federal Transfer of Student Data” form to the new school. “There is no uniform requirement on the form of managing learning outcomes or monitoring students. Schools can design their own system,” said Dr. Vinh.
Grades for primary school students in Australia are assessed using a number from A (highest) to E. School principals decide for themselves whether to provide feedback to students.
In middle school, subject teachers will save grades for their subjects with comments that students are above, equal to, or below the assessment standard in their subject. The homeroom teacher also gives a brief general comment on each student’s learning situation. The mid- and end-of-year report cards are sent in sealed A4 envelopes to parents.
Paper and electronic report cards are also used in schools in Singapore. Associate professor Le Thi Nguyet Minh at the National University of Singapore (NUS) said that high school students have paper transcripts, which the school prints out when needed. Each student has a unique code and the teacher uses a calculator to enter grades and comments for each child.
These data are put into the database of the Ministry of Education, so when transferring classes or changing schools, students do not have to manually transfer the data. Student data is only printed, signed and stamped in the case of transferring schools abroad.
“The submission of applications to study in developed countries is done via the Internet. The printed version is usually only used for testing and certification,” Associate Professor Minh said in general.
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