A PROPOSAL FOR A SET OF CRITERIA TO EVALUATE VIETNAM’S NEW PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM IN THE NEW CONTEXT

A PROPOSAL FOR A SET OF CRITERIA TO EVALUATE VIETNAM’S NEW PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM IN THE NEW CONTEXT

Chu Cam Tho thocc@vnies.edu.vn
Dang Xuan Cuong cuongdx@vnies.edu.vn
Vu Truong An* anvt@vnies.edu.vn
Vu Thi Ngoc Minh ngocminh.vnies@gmail.com
Nguyen Thi Huong huongnt@vnies.edu.vn The Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences 101 Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
Summary: 
In the context of the fundamental and comprehensive educational reform and transformation of the economic and social environment, a new preschool education curriculum has been developed to meet the new requirements on childcare and education, preparing children for learning in the context of the implementation of the 2018 general education program and ensuring the country’s sustainable development goals. One of the tasks of designing a curriculum for early childhood education is to establish a set of competencybased assessment criteria; however, the early childhood curriculum assessment has not yet been founded on the establishment and dissemination of curriculum standards and framework for curriculum evaluation. Based on the foundations of curriculum evaluation models and preschool curriculum from countries across the world, this article presents a set of criteria for assessing preschool education programs in Vietnam using a competency-based approach.
Keywords: 
early childhood education
criteria
curriculum evaluation.
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