Student assessment in Thailand

A well-balanced, high-quality student assessment framework yields data that can be used to improve the education system, inform teaching practices and help individual learners. This chapter describes Thailand’s extensive national standardised testing regime as well as assessments at classroom, school and local level. It identifies three policy issues impeding the effective use of assessment to improve student outcomes and fairness: 1) weak assessment capacity right across the education system 2) the validity and comparability of Thailand’s national assessments and 3) the narrow approach to assessment which fails to address the full range of the skills its students need.