Workshop on Assessment, Evaluation and Management of University Training Quality

The workshop took place on August 16, 2008, organized by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities with the participation of many scientists and education experts from many universities and research institutes in Vietnam and Korea. The workshop focused on three main contents: assessing the quality of education: theory and methods; accreditation of training programs; forms of testing and evaluating learning outcomes.

In the first topic, the reports focus on issues such as quality culture, accreditation, university evaluation, lecturer lecture evaluation... Some reports mention new issues in Vietnam such as university rankings, benchmarking...

In the second topic, the reports affirmed that the accreditation of training program quality is a positive measure to ensure the quality of training at universities. Although this is a relatively new issue in Vietnam, the reports tried to clarify the reasons for implementing the accreditation of training program quality; provide information on the status of accreditation of training program quality in Vietnam and some countries in the world; develop the content of accreditation standards; propose a model for accreditation of training programs...

In addition to the above two contents, the issue of testing and evaluating learning outcomes was also discussed by delegates. This is also considered an important step to help lecturers organize teaching more effectively and students also receive feedback to adjust their study plans. The reports of this topic discuss the evaluation function; establish the relationship between testing, evaluation and teaching; forms of testing, evaluating learning outcomes...