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TRA VINH UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND LEARNING CENTER 1 WHAT ARE THE MAIN VALUES, ATTITUDES AND ASSUMPTIONS OF VIETNAMESE TEACHERS ON STUDENT ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND WHAT ARE THE MAIN INFLUENCES UPON THEIR TEACHING? A STUDY AT A MEDIUM-SIZED UNIVERSITY IN THE SOUTH OF VIETNAM NGUYEN THI HAI TRA, MED Teaching and Learning Center

CONTENTS 2 1. Purposes of the study 2. Purposes of student assessment in higher education 3. Types of assessment 4. Issues of formative assessment implementation 5. Student assessment in Vietnam 6. Methods of the study 7. Findings and discussion 8. Conclusion and suggestions Teaching and Learning Center

PURPOSES OF THE STUDY 3 To focus on developing insights into the values, attitudes, and assumptions about student assessment that are held by teachers and academic administrators at the site university, To explore how these values, attitudes, and assumptions impact on teaching practice. Teaching and Learning Center

PURPOSES OF ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION 4 To support the learning process, To maintain disciplinary or professional standards, To judge student achievement of essential knowledge and skills. Teaching and Learning Center

FORMATIVE vs. SUMMARTIVE ASSESSMENT 5 Formative assessment • Assessment FOR learning Summative assessment • Assessment OF learning • To support further development • To measure the sum of of students learning, students’ performance or to grade or rank students’ • Formative feedback is seen as a achievement, central element of formative assessment • To identify their strengths and • ‘High-stakes’ testing weaknesses of teaching practice Teaching and Learning Center

ISSUES OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IMPLEMENTATION 6 The size of large classes, The extensive and excessive curriculum requirements in educational systems, Teachers’ expertise, professional knowledge and skills, Having a cultural context. Teaching and Learning Center

STUDENT ASSESSMETN OF LEARNING IN VIETNAM 7 MOET’s Regulation 25 and Regulation 43, Require greater memorization in the final exams, Do not emphasize formative assessment, Students ‘cram’ for the exams, Teaching and Learning Center

METHODS 8 Procedure: getting all permission data collection data analysis writing report Instrument: semi-structured interview Teaching and Learning Center

FINDINGS AND DICUSSION 9 Traditional student assessment: Summative assessment Teachers did not have the responsibility for implementing the whole process of student assessment Students adopt their learning style to 'surface approach to learning’ => did not help to improve students' learning Teaching and Learning Center

FINDINGS AND DICUSSION 10 Recent student assessment: Regulation 975 Advantages 1. of recent student assessment practice: Formative and summative assessment: At least 2 formative assessment + 1 summative assessment Final grade = (averaged grades of FA + grade of SA)/2 Teaching and Learning Center

FINDINGS AND DICUSSION 11 Recent student assessment: Regulation 975 Advantages 2. of recent student assessment practice: Teachers had authority over the whole process of student assessment: Design, develop, implement, then grade assessment tasks (formative and summative assessment) Have explicit responsibility for success and failures of students Teaching and Learning Center

FINDINGS AND DICUSSION 12 Recent student assessment: Regulation 975 Advantages of recent student assessment practice: Informing teachers about their students' learning process: 3. Have a better picture of students’ learning during a semester Teaching and Learning Center

FINDINGS AND DICUSSION 13 Recent student assessment: Advantages 4. of recent student assessment practice: Informing teachers about their teaching: Enable teachers to identify their weakness in teaching => Modify their teaching for a current semester and a subsequent semester Teaching and Learning Center

FINDINGS AND DICUSSION 14 Recent student assessment: Advantages 5. of recent student assessment practice: Implementing formative assessment: For theoretical units • • Writing, oral and/or multiple-choice tests Asking questions Writing essays Presentation For practical units • • Observing, grading and providing feedback on students’ performance Oral tests Teaching and Learning Center

FINDINGS AND DICUSSION 15 Recent student assessment: Advantages 6. of recent student assessment practice: Giving students feedback on their learning: Provide students with constructive oral and written feedback Provide students with chances to respond to teachers’ feedback Teaching and Learning Center

FINDINGS AND DICUSSION 16 Recent student assessment: Drawbacks of student assessment practice 1. Increasing teachers’ workload: Teachers have to do all work in the process of student assessment Teachers earn very low incomes and most need to earn extra incomes from other sources They “fulfil their tasks, but lack accountability in the assessment tasks” (Teacher 2) Teaching and Learning Center

FINDINGS AND DICUSSION 17 Recent student assessment: Drawbacks of student assessment practice: 2. Fairness and appropriateness of assessment tasks: ‘Short – cuts’ Reduce the amount of formative feedback Use grade of 1 st formative assessment for 2 nd one Assign grades formative assessment based on class attendance Teaching and Learning Center Use norm reference

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 18 Have been changed for the better, A powerful tool in directly or indirectly supporting student learning, The teachers recognized the important responsibility, The broader conception of student assessment helped them monitor their student learning progress, Teaching and Learning Center

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 19 Teachers’ workloads increased Fairness in assessment became an issue. => Explore students’ experiences and perceptions of fairness in assessment, Teaching and Learning Center

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