REQUIREMENTS TO BE MET FOR WRITING SKILLS IN VIETNAMESE SUBJECT AND ORIENTATION TO DEVELOP STANDARDS FOR ASSESSING PUPILS’ COMPETENCE THROUGH WRITING SKILL

Schools are currently teaching toward the 2018 General Education Curriculum in grades 1, 2, 3 and 4. Requirements for evaluating educational results according to the new curriculum are being set up in general schools in order to assess the level of meeting the requirements for the quality, capability, and progress of students in their learning process, and to provide accurate and timely information to adjust teaching and management activities, management and program development, and meet educational goals. The General Education Curriculum in Literature subject has established the framework for evaluating students' growth levels in two particular subject - competences (linguistic and literature competencies), which are prerequisites to be fulfilled in terms of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in each grade and levels. At Primary education level, to evaluate students' competences in 4 skills in Vietnamese language subject, assessment standards need to be developed for each skill in each grade. This article analyzes the basic requirements for writing skill stated in the curriculum, then provides guidance for building standards to evaluate writing skills based on the levels of perfomance achieved by pupils.