Abstract: In the context of rapid social and economic reform,countries across the world attach great importance to cultivating students' labor competency in their educational practice to meet the needs of personal lifelong development and social development.The research and practice of labor competency evaluation of primary and secondary school students mainly involve three aspects,including the connotation of labor competency,evaluation indicators and evaluation methods.First,in terms of the connotation,there is an international consensus that the labor competency is the comprehensive performance of labor attitudes,values,character,knowledge and skills.Second,as for the evaluation indicators,all the countries pay universal attention to the indicators of the crucial labor ability (e.g.,labor knowledge,labor skills,innovation and creation),labor spirit and character (e.g.,devotion,diligence,and thrift),and some countries set special stress on the evaluation of labor attitudes and values (e.g.,respect for labor,beliefs in the personal value of labor,and the beliefs in the social value of labor).Third,the evaluation methods have the characteristics of combined process-oriented and summative assessment,comprehensive multiple methods,and integrative multiple evaluation subjects.The above implications for the evaluation of primary and secondary school students' labor competency include strengthening the evaluation of labor value experience and recognition to improve the labor competency,establishing a systematic evaluation tool to improve the operability of evaluation,and using value-added assessment to assess the effect of competency cultivation.

Key words: labor competency, evaluation indicators, evaluation methods, primary and secondary school students, labor education