VNU Journal of Science: Education Research

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of students' online learning in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic based on the online survey data of 225 Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education’s students with males accounting for 74.7% and females, 25.3%. The results show that the online teaching somewhat met the students’ learning expectations, bringing certain convenience in saving travel time, allowing more time for studying learning materials, among others. However, the online learning shows that there were still a number of difficulties related to the means of learning, learning space and insufficient interaction, which led to lower effectiveness than traditional learning. Therefore, the research results are expected to help provide a more objective view on the current situation of online learning in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic.

The aim of this survey research is to get evaluative feedback from the teachers who are using the primary English textbooks developed under the National Foreign Language 2020 Project to find out their strengths and weaknesses so that further corrections and revisions will be made to perfect the materials before putting them into use on a large scale. Overall, the results of the research have shown that teachers’ evaluations of the textbooks are very positive. There are, however, some things that need to be done to improve the quality of the materials. The research consists of 4 parts. Part 1 provides a brief overview of Tiếng Anh 3 and Tiếng Anh 4 - the two English textbooks which are being piloted in 92 selected primary schools throughout Vietnam. Part 2 is concerned with the design of the research which consists of aim of the research, sites and subjects of the research, research instrument, the questionnaire, research procedure, and method of data analysis. Part 3 presents in some detail research findings and discussion of those findings. Part 4 provides a résumé of the strengths and weaknesses of the textbooks as seen from the point of view of the teachers’ evaluations, points out some limitations of the research and makes some suggestions and recommendation for further study.Keywords: Teachers’ evaluation, preliminary internal survey, National Foreign Language 2020 Project, three pilot English curricula for Vietnamese schools.

Creative education, the activity that helps learners nurture creative spirit, ideas and capacity, is the "main way" to form creative people and thereby promotes the development of society, making it a creative one. The search for creative education in Vietnam is an issue that needs to be studied and evaluated in order to make recommendations on educational management in high schools. This article focuses on creative education and management issues in schools; analyzes and assesses the current status of creative education in Vietnam high schools in Hanoi, Nam Dinh and Quang Ninh through a survey for 190 teachers and 220 students from three high schools about factors that form creative education, the level of expression and relationship between the components of creative education as well as factors that impede creative education development in high schools; thereby making recommendations on educational management in Vietnam today.

The funds of knowledge approach has been increasingly studied and applied to teaching practices in many developed countries. Learning about students’ funds of knowledge and incorporation into their learning enables teachers to increase relevant learning experiences, empowering a socio-constructivist approach to teaching and learning. It is acknowledged to help students learn meaningfully by connecting lessons to students’ funds of knowledge, especially to ethnic minority students, color, immigrant students, or disadvantaged students. However, there is a lack of studies and papers on the funds of knowledge approach in education in Vietnam. This article aims to introduce this educational approach and contribute to solving the challenges that ethnic minority education in Vietnam is facing. The article also suggests further studies to promote the application of the Funds of knowledge approach in Vietnam, thereby improving the quality of ethnic minority education in Vietnam and value the cultural resources, languages, and local knowledge of ethnic minority groups in Vietnam.           

Globally, approximately 10% - 20% of children and adolescents experience mental health problems and the majority of them are living in low- and middle-income countries. Children of female sex workers are often exposed to unsafe environments, traumatic experiences and a mentally ill parent, putting them at risk for developing mental health problems themselves. Research on the mental health and functioning of children of female sex workers during their school age is limited. This paper will explore the mental health and functioning of female sex workers’ children. Method: The study included 160 female entertainment workers (FEWs) and 60 of their children from four provinces of Cambodia. FEW’s mental health, and children’s mental health and functioning were measured. Result: FEWs demonstrated high rates of depression (67%) and anxiety (61%), and 54.38% reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Of the 60 children, the majority got their education at primary school (68%) and secondary school (25%). 46.7% of them reported symptoms of functional impairment, 18.33% suffered from psychological distress, and 36.67% have PTSD symptoms above the clinical threshold. Children’s psychological distress was significantly predicted by mothers’ early childhood traumatic experiences, mothers’ current mental health problems, mothers’ anxiety and PTSD. Mother’s PTSD predicted children’s psychological distress [β = 0.282, R2  = 0.079] and functioning [β = 0.285, R2  = 0.081]. Conclusion: School age children of FEWs have high rates of depression, anxiety and PTSD. Children’s psychological problems impair their functioning at school and home. FEW’s PTSD predicts their children’s psychological distress and functioning. Further research on the mental health and functioning of FEW’s children should be continued with a larger sample size. Mental health professionals and educators should provide mental health care for FEWs and their children, and develop evidence-based approaches to improving children’s mental health and functioning

Tóm tắt. Nghiên cứu này tiếp cận vấn đề chất lượng đào tạo nguồn nhân lực khối ngành khoa học xã hội và nhân văn trên cơ sở nghiên cứu các nhân tố ảnh hưởng đến sự hài lòng của người sử dụng lao động đối với sản phẩm của quá trình đào tạo. Từ đó giúp nhà làm giáo dục và nhà doanh nghiệp hiểu rõ nhau hơn trong việc thỏa mãn nhu cầu của cả hai bên. Phương pháp nghiên cứu hỗn hợp trong đó phương pháp phân tích nhân tố khám phá và phân tích hồi quy đa biến được chủ yếu sử dụng trong việc làm rõ các vấn đề nghiên cứu và đạt được các mục tiêu đề ra. Kết quả nghiên cứu đã chỉ ra các nhân tố: Kiến thức và nghiệp vụ chuyên môn; Kĩ năng chuyên môn; Kĩ năng mềm và thái độ làm việc; Giá trị gia tăng tạo ra; Kinh nghiệm làm việc; Khả năng hòa nhập là các nhân tố ảnh hưởng đến sự hài lòng của doanh nghiệp.Từ khóa: Nhân tố, sự hài lòng của doanh nghiệp, cử nhân khối ngành khoa học xã hội và nhân văn.

This study aims to explore English-majored students’ perceptions of the value of internship and their levels of satisfaction with regard to three workplace dimensions including job characteristics, work environment characteristics, and contextual factors. Fifty interns from the Faculty of English at Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance (UEF) participated in this project. Data were collected through questionnaires and then quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed. The results indicated that the majority of the interns had positive perceptions of the internship experience and demonstrated their maturity and responsibility. The students also expressed high satisfaction with job characteristics, specifically skill variety, autonomy, feedback, and work-related factors such as co-workers and supervisor support. However, they were somehow dissatisfied with contextual elements such as the working hours and compensation. These findings can assist academic institutions, academic supervisors and host companies in providing students with effective internship experience and enhancing their workplace skills.  

Tóm tắt: Trị liệu đa hệ thống (TLĐHT) hiện được đánh giá rất có hiệu quả trong can thiệp rối loạn hành vi ở trẻ vị thành niên. Tuy nhiên, vẫn chưa có nhiều nghiên cứu chỉ rõ trong những điều kiện nào thì TLĐHT phát huy được hiệu quả tốt. Nghiên cứu này được tiến hành để kiểm tra các yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến hiệu quả của TLĐHT. Kết quả phân tích đã xác định được một số yếu tố ảnh hưởng như tuổi của trẻ, thu nhập của gia đình, tình trạng hôn nhân của cha mẹ hay sức khỏe tâm thần của cha mẹ. Trẻ vị thành niên (VTN) sẽ được hưởng lợi nhiều hơn từ TLĐHT nếu các em có một gia đình hoạt động chức năng hiệu quả. Bởi lẽ, 7 trong 12 yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến hiệu quả trị liệu đều liên quan đến hoạt động chức năng của gia đình và hành vi của cha mẹ. Kết quả nghiên cứu gợi ý rằng các nhà TLĐHT nên cân nhắc đánh giá hoạt động chức năng của gia đình và phong cách hành vi của cha mẹ trước khi quyết định có sử dụng TLĐHT cho họ hay không.Từ khóa: Rối loạn hành vi; trị liệu đa hệ thống; hành vi làm cha mẹ; chức năng gia đình.

Information text were first put into official teaching according to the provisions of the Philology Curriculum 2018. From the school year 2021-2022, junior high school students in grade 6 begins to learn reading and writing this type of text. In order to facilitate the teaching and assessment of information literacy reading comprehension in secondary schools effectively, the article introduces and analyzes the PISA test in 2018 in the field of reading informational texts, thereby offering a number of solutions to improve the effectiveness of teaching reading comprehension of this type of text in Vietnamese junior high schools.

With globalization, the university-work transition has become increasingly challenging for graduates and employers. In the new context, the mission of university has shifted, and knowledge is no longer considered as singular [1]. The traditional role of universities in producing knowledge has changed to give more focus on the demands of society. The “codified knowledge” acquired from didactic teaching in universities can be at odds with the often “informal and tacit” knowledge required in the workplace. The development of information technology makes the nature of work changing very fast; graduates need to achieve attributes that help them not only do the work corresponding with their disciplines, but be able to learn new skills and new knowledge. This paper presents the primary results of a questionnaire survey among 25 employers of VNU School of Law’s graduates to explore employers’ evaluation of the employability of graduates from Vietnam National University Hanoi. Applying theories of graduate attributes [2], employability [3] and graduate transferable skills [4], [5], the survey explores the gap between university study and the requirements at the work market of graduates. This paper argues that there is considerable distance between university knowledge and skills and the nature of the work. Graduates lack transferable skills, those that allow them to acquire the necessary skills, to satisfy the requirements of the morden workplace, to transfer abstract cognitive skills. These skills are needed before the graduates enter the work market as the employers expect them to practice these skills competently at work. Although these skills can be generated through work, the employers do emphasise their importance for univesrity graduates. Therefore the university teaching and learning process should be reviewed and revised (if necessary) to develop these transferable skills during the time at the university.