Changing the method of testing and evaluating high school students

Not only subject Englishmany other subjects at Olympia High School, Hanoi also let students do projects instead of paper tests.

In the final assessment of Grade 7 Literature, through the presentation, the students’ abilities and knowledge are clearly revealed.

Mac Dinh Anh, Olympia Inter-School shared: “You will have to be exposed to a lot of social information, this will help us to have more speaking skills and be able to use lively and flexible words. transfer”.

Diversifying methods of testing and assessing students Ministry of Education and Training encouraged from 2020, but so far the change has occurred mainly in private schools. In Hanoi, Hoang Mai Secondary School is one of the few public schools that actively innovates in regular assessment.

Not only giving presentations, students also make 3D models to recreate outstanding events or create comic books about victories or historical figures learned in the program. In the last school year, teacher Pham Tuong Van – teacher of Hoang Mai Secondary School, Hanoi – boldly applied these forms instead of a 15-minute test or a class period.

Ms. Van said: “The children introduced the work products, the parts they learned, helping students deepen their knowledge and remember the knowledge more. So they don’t need to study too much with the Calendar subject. history”.

The reception from the students and the real quality of the projects confirm the effectiveness of the new forms of testing. Experience from schools shows that the successful organization of this activity does not depend on financial conditions and facilities, but mainly on the initiative and creativity of schools and teachers.

Last week was the peak time for schools across the country to hold the end-of-term exam. In the context that the education sector is renovating the educational program towards the approach of developing learners’ quality and capacity, the change in testing and assessment is expected to make a decisive contribution to the innovations. in teaching and learning by teachers and students.

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