Assessment in the New General Education Curriculum in Vietnam: A Proposal for Developing Instruments Using Psychometric Theories

Assessment in the New General Education Curriculum in Vietnam: A Proposal for Developing Instruments Using Psychometric Theories

Dang Xuan Cuong cuongdx@vnies.edu.vn The Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences
Summary: 
Vietnam’s 2018 general education curriculum has been developed according to the competency approach. As a result, the instruction and assessment systems need to be adapted to align with the requirements of the new curriculum. Experience from other countries shows that one effective solution is applying psychometric theories in different assessment programs. In this paper, the educational assessment system in Vietnam will be introduced along with the history of psychometric theories, especially Rasch measurement, in Vietnam. After rehearsing some illustrated studies using psychometric theories as well as identifying some challenges of this field in the context of curriculum innovation, a proposal for developing instruments using psychometric theories will be discussed in relation to the requirements of assessment in the new general education curriculum in Vietnam.
Keywords: 
standardized testing
measurement
psychometric theories
2018 curriculum
Vietnam.
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