The above is the comment of Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh, senior lecturer at Hanoi National University of Education, member of the 2018 general education program development board; Editor of the Physics program, about the 2018 high school graduation reference exam.
Not all students get to "practice" for the exam separately.
- As a member of the 2018 General Education Program Development Board, what are your comments on the reference questions for the 2025 high school graduation exam just announced by the Ministry of Education and Training?
Basically, the reference questions that the Ministry of Education and Training has just announced meet the assessment requirements according to the 2028 general education program (2018 General Education Program).
Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh, senior lecturer at Hanoi National University of Education (Photo: NVCC).
These questions also meet the requirements of Resolution No. 29-TW-4-11-2013 on innovation in examination methods and recognition of high school graduation in the direction of reducing pressure and costs for society while still ensuring reliability, honesty, and correct assessment of students' abilities, serving as a basis for vocational education and university education enrollment.
In particular, the newly announced topics contribute to adjusting teaching in general schools, helping to strengthen the position of teachers.
Specifically, the high school graduation exam has a profound impact on the whole society. If the results of this exam meet the requirements of innovation, candidates can enter universities based on their high school graduation exam scores, instead of studying according to the general education program and preparing for separate exams.
Second, once the exam is good, it will ensure educational fairness because not all students have the time and financial resources to both study the general education program and practice the content of other exams (separate exams of universities - PV).
Third, highly differentiated exams are an important basis for universities to trust and use for admission purposes. This is to give teachers the right to teach to help their students have the opportunity to pass universities without having to go through any other exams.
- Many people think that this reference question is a completely new breakthrough, almost "smashed and redone". What do you think about this?
The above comments prove that the reference test that the Ministry of Education and Training has just released has had a certain success.
Of course, this is only a subjective assessment. To evaluate an exam scientifically and objectively, it is not only based on feelings but also on the basis of scientific testing and evaluation.
After being compiled by an expert system, the test questions must be tested with appropriate student subjects. Then, specialized software helps people to give objective results on the "difficulty", "discrimination", ... of the test questions after testing.
The sample exam is considered "strangely interesting" (Photo: Manh Quan).
"Interesting" exam questions reduce guessing
- So, in your opinion, the exam questions of the Ministry of Education and Training have satisfied both emotional and scientific requirements?
According to the information I have, the reference questions that the Ministry of Education and Training has just announced are exam questions that have gone through testing and evaluation stages on a number of student groups.
After analyzing the score distribution after the test, these questions were adjusted to have a suitable difficulty level for the high school graduation exam according to the requirements of the 2018 General Education Program.
Perhaps, one of the reasons why many people rate the test as "strange" is because the recently published reference tests have a familiar multiple-choice question format, with additional true/false and short-answer question formats.
In addition, due to many years of focusing on practicing calculation-oriented questions, the newly published reference questions have reduced the number of questions requiring complex calculations, giving us the feeling that the questions seem "interesting" and "strange".
- From 2025, the high school graduation exam must ensure competency assessment according to the 2018 general education program. However, public opinion is worried and confused because they do not understand "what is competency assessment", sir?
Any educational process aims to create changes in learners according to educational goals. To know the extent of those changes, that is, what capacity learners have achieved, it is necessary to evaluate the learner's behavior in a specific situation.
To demonstrate that learners have some level of competence, they must be given opportunities to solve problems in specific situations. Then, by completing tasks in a meaningful context, it is possible to simultaneously assess the level of cognition, performance skills, and values and emotions of the learner.
For students, in the exam questions in the high school graduation exam, meaningful context is understood as: The situation (language + question) has a certain effect or value in practice and/or science.
- So, according to you, from 2025, how will the high school graduation exam format be different from before?
From 2025, in order to better assess learners' abilities and reduce the probability of guessing in exam questions, the high school graduation exam will change the exam format.
According to the decision of the Ministry of Education and Training last March, except for foreign languages, the structure of the exam questions for objective multiple-choice subjects has three parts.
Part I consists of familiar multiple choice items; Part II consists of yes/no items and Part III consists of short answer items.
The reference questions for the 2025 high school graduation exam announced by the Ministry of Education and Training on October 18, 2024 have been structured in this format.
Thank you very much!
"Assessing learners' capacity is not only done through exams but must combine process assessment and summative assessment; regular assessment and periodic assessment.
In assessment, it is necessary to reasonably combine teacher assessment with peer assessment and self-assessment of students; assessment through observation of group activities in and out of class, observation of practical operations, experiments, analysis of presentations; assessment through questions and answers, through exercises, tests, notebooks, reports on practice results, study project results, scientific research results and other study records. In particular, it is necessary to reasonably combine assessment in the form of essays with objective tests.
Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Van Khanh
Source: https://dantri.com.vn/giao-duc/de-thi-tham-khao-tot-nghiep-thpt-2025-hay-la-20241021085840224.htm
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