Experimental Research to Evaluate the Competences of Students at Vietnam National University Hanoi

A competence is a structure that facilitates specific behaviors. General competences include thinking skills such as logical reasoning, analysis, and problem solving; effective communication skills, teamwork skills, ability to identify, access and manage knowledge and information; Personal attributes such as imagination and creativity. A competency assessment system must have key performance indicators, defined in relation to success factors. To develop a set of indicators to evaluate general competences, the research team at VNU Institute for Educational Quality Assurance selected 122 indicators of 13 general competences to test at a group of 30 students studying at 2nd, 3rd and 4th year at VNU member universities through their self-assessment of the level of achievement of competence indicators. The test results showed that the highest achieved indicators were "Respect and demand respect for other cultures similar to one's own" and "See human relationships in terms of respect." Equality". Indicators of information technology capacity such as "The ability to use information and communication technology in a way with a clear purpose and responsibility" did not reach a high level of achievement, especially 4 indicators related to skills. Information technology application, skills in working with computing software, and internet research skills in studying, researching, and working are all at low levels. Some indicators of creativity and application are not high. Indicators related to creative capacity were not at high achievement.