SOME CORE ISSUES IN DESIGNING STANDARDS IN THE GENERAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM

SOME CORE ISSUES IN DESIGNING STANDARDS IN THE GENERAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM

Pham Duc Quang quangpd@vnies.edu.vn SOME CORE ISSUES IN DESIGNING STANDARDS IN THE GENERAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM
Summary: 
Up to now, there are many ways to understand the concept of standards in developing the General education curriculum due to different approaches from the perspective of building output standards, assessing students’ learning outcomes, managing the teaching and learning process based on standards. Therefore, the standard development is also approached in different ways with purposes such as summative assessment, teaching and learning based on standards. This article aims to identify the standards-building approach in the General education curriculum from the perspective of standards-based teaching and learning in Vietnam. Accordingly, the standard is the concretization of the requirements to be achieved, helping teachers to understand the depth of that curriculum and visualize the student’s nearest development zone, which is described through the levels to be achieved. On that basis, the article provides an illustration of the standard in the general education curriculum of Mathematics in 2018. Therefore, the standard supports the assessment and selection of textbooks in the context of only one curriculum and many sets of textbooks; helping the teaching and testing follow the standards. In particular, the standard not only supports summative assessment but also continuous assessment because both teachers and learners understand the requirements to be achieved with each unit of knowledge (topic/lesson) in the curriculum, aiming to avoid the problem of students ‘sitting in the wrong class”.
Keywords: 
Requirements to be achieved
standards in the general education curriculum
standard
criteria
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[1] Up to now, there are many ways to understand the concept of standards in developing the General education curriculum due to different approaches from the perspective of building output standards, assessing students’ learning outcomes, managing the teaching and learning process based on standards. Therefore, the standard development is also approached in different ways with purposes such as summative assessment, teaching and learning based on standards. This article aims to identify the standards-building approach in the General education curriculum from the perspective of standards-based teaching and learning in Vietnam. Accordingly, the standard is the concretization of the requirements to be achieved, helping teachers to understand the depth of that curriculum and visualize the student’s nearest development zone, which is described through the levels to be achieved. On that basis, the article provides an illustration of the standard in the general education curriculum of Mathematics in 2018. Therefore, the standard supports the assessment and selection of textbooks in the context of only one curriculum and many sets of textbooks; helping the teaching and testing follow the standards. In particular, the standard not only supports summative assessment but also continuous assessment because both teachers and learners understand the requirements to be achieved with each unit of knowledge (topic/lesson) in the curriculum, aiming to avoid the problem of students ‘sitting in the wrong class”.

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