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PURPOSES OF THE STUDY 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. 3 Teaching and Learning Center
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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
TRA VINH UNIVERSITYTEACHING AND LEARNING
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CONTENTS
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
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PURPOSES OF THE STUDY
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.
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PURPOSES OF ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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To support the learning process,
To maintain disciplinary or professional standards,
To judge student achievement of essential knowledge
and skills.
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FORMATIVE vs. SUMMARTIVE ASSESSMENT
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Formative assessment Summative assessment• Assessment FOR learning • Assessment OF learning
• To support further development of students learning,
• Formative feedback is seen as a central element of formative assessment
• To measure the sum of students’ performance or to grade or rank students’ achievement,
• To identify their strengths and weaknesses of teaching practice
• ‘High-stakes’ testing
ISSUES OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IMPLEMENTATION
The size of large classes,
The extensive and excessive curriculum requirements in educational systems,
Teachers’ expertise, professional knowledge and skills,
Having a cultural context.
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STUDENT ASSESSMETN OF LEARNING IN VIETNAM
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MOET’s Regulation 25 and Regulation 43, Require greater memorization in the final exams, Do not emphasize formative assessment, Students ‘cram’ for the exams,
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METHODS8
Procedure: getting all permission data collection
data analysis writing report
Instrument: semi-structured interview
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FINDINGS AND DICUSSION
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Traditional student assessment: Summative assessmentTeachers 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
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Recent student assessment: Regulation 975
Advantages of recent student assessment practice:
1. Formative and summative assessment:
At least 2 formative assessment + 1 summative assessment
Final grade = (averaged grades of FA + grade of SA)/2
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FINDINGS AND DICUSSION
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Recent student assessment: Regulation 975Advantages of recent student assessment practice:
2. 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
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FINDINGS AND DICUSSION
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Recent student assessment: Regulation 975
Advantages of recent student assessment practice:
3. Informing teachers about their students' learning process:
Have a better picture of students’ learning during a semester
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FINDINGS AND DICUSSION
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Recent student assessment: Advantages of recent student assessment practice:
4. Informing teachers about their teaching:
Enable teachers to identify their weakness in teaching
=> Modify their teaching for a current semester and a subsequent semester
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FINDINGS AND DICUSSION
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Recent student assessment: Advantages of recent student assessment practice:
5. Implementing formative assessment:
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FINDINGS AND DICUSSION
For theoretical units For practical units
• Writing, oral and/or multiple-choice tests
• Asking questions• Writing essays• Presentation
• Observing, grading and providing feedback on students’ performance
• Oral tests
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Recent student assessment: Advantages of recent student assessment practice:
6. Giving students feedback on their learning:
Provide students with constructive oral and written feedback
Provide students with chances to respond to teachers’ feedback
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FINDINGS AND DICUSSION
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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
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Recent student assessment: Drawbacks of student assessment practice:
2. Fairness and appropriateness of assessment tasks:
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FINDINGS AND DICUSSION
‘Short – cuts’
Reduce the amount of formative feedback
Use grade of 1st formative assessment for 2nd one
Assign grades for formative assessment based on class attendance
Use norm reference
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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,
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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
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Teachers’ workloads increasedFairness in assessment became an issue.
=> Explore students’ experiences and perceptions of fairness in assessment,
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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
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