The purposes of the study presented in this article were twofold. One was to respond to the question: what makes a quality curriculum? within the framework of the fourth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4). The other was to develop and pilot an appropriate instrument to evaluate the quality of curricula in a sample of private schools in Vietnam. While public schools are still preparing for implementation of Vietnam’s New General Educational Curriculum, small adjustments are already being made to the curriculum in some private and international schools in Vietnam, which have been issued a curriculum customisation licence. Therefore, the pilot schools which participated in this study can serve as case studies for the upcoming major policy improvement in Vietnam’s public schools, thus providing guidance for Vietnamese policymakers, school principals and teachers. While there is no “one-size-fits-all” curriculum assessment formula, since each country exhibits distinctive features in its teaching and learning programme, the indicators developed by the authors for their study can be adjusted to suit the needs of other countries.

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在可持续发展目标 4 下引入衡量课程质量的工具：越南小学的案例

本文提出的研究有双重目的。一个是回答这个问题：什么是高质量的课程？在第四个联合国可持续发展目标（SDG 4）的框架内。另一个是开发和试用一种适当的工具来评估越南私立学校样本的课程质量。虽然公立学校仍在为实施越南新通识教育课程做准备，但越南一些私立和国际学校已经对课程进行了小幅调整，这些学校已经获得了课程定制许可证。因此，参与本次研究的试点学校可以作为越南公立学校即将进行的重大政策改进的案例研究，从而为越南决策者提供指导，学校校长和教师。虽然没有“一刀切”的课程评估公式，但由于每个国家的教学和学习计划都具有鲜明的特点，作者为他们的研究制定的指标可以进行调整，以适应其他国家的需要。