Dataset of Vietnamese teachers' perspectives and perceived support during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented damage to the educational system worldwide. Besides the measurable economic impacts in the short-term and long-term, there is intangible destruction within educational institutions. In par-ticular, teachers - the most critical intellectual resources of any schools - have to face various types of financial, physical, and mental struggles due to COVID-19. To capture the current context of more than one million Vietnamese teachers dur-ing COVID-19, we distributed an e-survey to more than 2,500 randomly selected teachers from two major teacher commu-nities on Facebook from 6th to 11th April 2020. From over 373 responses, we excluded the observations which violated our cross-check questions and retained 294 observations for further analysis. This dataset includes: (i) Demographics of participants; (ii) Teachers' perspectives regarding the opera-tion of teaching activities during the pandemic; (iii) Teach-ers' received support from their schools, government bodies, other stakeholders such as teacher unions, and parents' asso-ciations; and (iv) teachers' evaluation of school readiness to-ward digital transformation. Further, the dataset was supple-mented with an additional question on the teachers' primary source of professional development activities during the pandemic. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.