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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic reached most countries globally, economies have suffered more or less a change in all activities. Vietnamese firms have been struggling with economic consequences associated with social distancing measures and lockdown. Firms in Vietnam have had to apply strategies of reshaping business, cutting costs and laying off staff. In this context, graduating students should have concerns. This study investigates their perceptions of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employability and their perceptions of training gaps. The study explores what graduating students prepare to find a job after graduation and their future career intentions. In addition, the research is aimed at students’ proposals for universities’ support to help them cope flexibly with the changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study used quantitative research methods, including an online questionnaire designed on Google Forms to collect data over a 3-week time frame in May 2020. More than 500 suitable responses were collected for descriptive statistical analysis with the support of SPSS software. The results of the study reveal that the final year students are well aware of the disadvantages when they graduate in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of them are willing to accept the difficulties and adjust themselves to survive and have a job. This study proposes solutions to assist graduating students by providing justifications, adaptation and skill improvement sets for better employability. In addition, this study also highlights information for higher education institutions with students’ perceptions of career orientation and new skill training to respond to Vietnam’s market demands.
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Although accompanied by the socialist-oriented market economy, private higher education plays a critical role in the development of the higher education sector of Vietnam. In this context, teaching staff development has been becoming more important than ever to make these non-public universities more competitive to the public universities. The main objectives of this research are to develop an understanding of an overview of the teaching staff development of the private universities in Vietnam. The study uses qualitative analysis in order to gain insights into different development aspects of these teaching staff. The findings should make an essential contribution to human resource development in the non-public universities regarding quality, quantity and assessment of the quality of the teaching staff in these universities. This research supports the idea that the teaching staff development of the private universities should be equally regarded as their colleagues in the public one.
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Gifted education in Malaysia can be traced back to the 1980s. However, the first gifted school was established in 2011. It was later included in the policy as the awareness of gifted education gained more significance. The gifted education curriculum is specifically designed to tailor to the needs of gifted students while also accommodating the standard national curriculum. This paper reviews history and current practice of gifted education in Malaysia. The conclusion showed that there is much room for improvement for gifted education in Malaysia and find the best system to cater to the needs of gifted students that are arising in Malaysia.
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This study aims to discover middle school students’ creative capacity in reading literary texts. Starting with discussing the definition of creative capacity prior to assessing the creative capacity of 128 middle school students in reading literary texts, the research finds that Vietnamese students perform well in a low level of creativity as in recognizing new ideas. However, they are limited in the high level of the capacity in reading comprehension such as giving their own opinion on literary text content, comparing works, applying the values of literary texts into real life as well as the ability to create new products. The results provide significant insights into the current situation of enhancing creative capacity for students in reading comprehension grounding the basis for proposing some appropriate solutions and recommendations to help develop students’ creativity in reading comprehension of literary texts.
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Teaching Biology at the upper secondary school level is considered to be the most important basis for developing students’ interest in science and then into careers in the field of Biology. This study’s purpose was to suggest some learning activities of Biology grade 10 to promote students’ career orientation competencies. This study investigated the contents of the Biology grade 10 programme of the General Education Curriculum 2018, and the types of learning activities that can be organised to promote students’ career orientation competencies. The results of the study included: 1) Defining learning activities represented by various forms such as research activities, project activities, explore activities, experimental activities, career discovery, experience activities,... depending on the characteristics of contents and the requirements that need to be achieved in the Biology grade 10 programme; and 2) Proposing the illustration for designing learning activities which can be organised in 5E inquiry learning model to enhance students’ career orientation in teaching Biology
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Assessment to Learning (AtL) emphasises social constructivism, via the collective and sharing of knowledge through guided and planned incremental learning. The goal of AtL is to capture and impact on the learner’s learning journey. AtL achieves this goal above by acknowledging the power of collective learning experiences; the learning experiences that reflect the successes and failures of the learner, their peers and their teacher/s (henceforth referred to as the participants), and then, through cultivating those learning experiences into Future Actionable Knowledge (FAK). FAK represents the application of present, past and future knowledge by emphasizing the Multi-Dimensional Discourse (MDD) communication channels, via Feedback-Feedforward Learning (FB-FFL), between the participants to diminish gaps-in-knowledge. Therefore, AtL is a formative assessment process built on the learning experiences of the participants to guide, and incrementally impact, via FAK, on their learning by facilitating a diminishment of gaps-in-knowledge.
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Recently, Vietnam has undergone a strong transformation from the knowledge-centered to the capacity development-oriented teaching approach. In the capacity development-oriented teaching approach, individuals’ strengths and weaknesses are specially focused on. In order to maximize the students’ strengths and overcome their weaknesses, the utilization of the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) of the American psychologist Gardner in teaching is the most appropriate. MI theory suggests that any individual possesses one of the eight types of intelligence: linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, naturalistic intelligence. Teachers need to arouse every student’s passion and excitement; teachers need to have encouraging activities to maximize students’ ability. In this article, we focus on researching the role of teachers, offering a variety of assessment forms, as well as illustrating examples of applying MI theory in teaching primary mathematics. Specifically, we also provide methods to develop MI. This article surveyed 83 students, 23 teachers about the utilization of MI theory in teaching. The article also investigated the case study of 8 students having different highly developed intelligences. Through experimental investigation, data processing, the result shows that MI teaching method has more obvious advantages than the traditional teaching ones. MI teaching is one of the best methods to help develop the strengths of students.
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Homework effectiveness has long been a controversial issue for many educators, schools, and parents. Many researchers have tried to prove that homework is not just a nuisance we all have to face throughout the years but really can build character and good for students, like teachers and parents typically say. This bibliometrics review studied 429 documents related to homework in education from the Clarivate Web of Science from 1977 to 2020. This study aims to record the volume, growth pattern of homework literature and identify critical authors, publications, and topics of this knowledge base. The review found that the homework literature has grown remarkably over the past 43 years, with the most cited authors are from the US, Germany, and Portugal. Using co-citation, co-occurrence and bibliographic coupling analysis from the VOSviewer program, this research also indicated significant results and suggestions for future research. The findings showed that homework literature increased gradually in volume, with the most publications originated in the USA, and critical authors were Cooper, Xu, and Trautwein. Additionally, five common research topics were illustrated, namely the effect of homework and its measurement, homework environment, homework tasks and feedback, family involvement in homework, and time and effort
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This study is an attempt to investigate EFL students’ attitudes towards grammar teaching in a high school in Vietnam. To complete the study, 80 tenth graders participated in the study. Data were collected from a five Likert-scale questionnaire and focus group interview. The results indicate that high school students were aware of the importance of grammar and grammar learning and they also favored teachercentered teaching methods relating to grammatical knowledge. From the findings, many pedagogical recommendations are put forward.
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While India is undergoing a swift expansion in secondary education, there has also been a drift of demand towards preschool education as a large number of parents are opting for it for their little ones. In India, the provision of preschool education is being made by the government, non-government organizations as well as the private sector through diverse models. Due to a variety of reasons such as working mothers, nuclear families, there is increasing enrolment in stand-alone playschools as well as kindergarten sections to facilitate education due to early stimulation, promote development activities and support to parents and families (Rao, 2005; World Bank, 2006; Paltasingh, 2010; Kaushal, 2016). However, in terms of the numbers, the prime coverage of 3- to 6-year-old children is being provided through Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) set up by the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme. The ICDS is offered under the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), India. This research paper is based upon a study, objectives of which were to uncover the infrastructure, curriculum, support materials, existing practices in early childhood education (ECE) available in the diverse type of ECE centres situated in Delhi, India. It was found that the nutritional component being there in AWC makes them attractive as there are free meals and snacks. On the other hand, in the preschools, the educational infrastructure is better as the teaching and learning materials are replenished and added on, and also the teachers are better qualified. The absence of these components often inhibits the attainment of the desired objectives. So, the aspects in terms of human and physical infrastructure also need to be given due weightage along with nutrition. It is recommended that preschools and AWCs should be linked to the primary schools, physically and programmatically.