NIETS and Lampang Provincial Education Office co-organized the online and onsite workshop on the usage of O-NET results for teaching quality upgrade.

On April 29-30, 2024, Asst. Prof. Sirida Burachat, Ph.D, the director of National Institute of Educational Testing Service (Public Organization) or NIETS and Hatthakarn Adulthiraket, Ph.D., the Lampang Provincial Education Officer, co-hosted the operational workshop on the topic of “the enhancement of the Ordinary National Educational Test (O-NET) results usage for upgrading teaching and learning’s quality level” in order to promote and support educational institutes to use the O-NET testing results for planning educational quality improvement in the educational year 2024. The onsite workshop was held at Phrabat Meeting room 1 on the 3^rd floor of the Lampang Provincial Education Office. The institute’s executives, professors, teachers, and educational officers joined the onsite workshop with 76 people from 36 schools, while the online workshop had 174 attendees.

The director of NIETS gave the results analysis guidelines of O-NET testing in each test and the testing results application for the teaching and learning plans of educational institutes, which were identified by subjects, learning standards, and indicators. Moreover, there were analysis of the curriculum and the building structure of testing, the testing analysis, the lesson learned of effective factors, and the score of the O-NET testing results in order to use them for teaching and learning improvement and class supportive learning management assistance.

Furthermore, NIETS has a free learning platform available for students, teachers, professors, and interested people for information searching and self – study which can access data  anywhere and anytime, according to the Minister of Education’s policy (Police General Permpoon Chidchob). This policy would decrease education inequalities and enhance the learning opportunities parity, such as 1) the online testing system for learning improvement, which served students and interested people to the O-NET testing trial, where the testers could know their strengths and weaknesses for their learning improvement plan in the future, 2) the online training system, which aims to improve personnel skills for measurement creation and learning assessment. It would support teachers and educational employees who are interested measurement creation and learning assessment, and 3) the circulation of the examination and answers of O-NET testing in each subject and level for schools and agencies in order to provide plans and learning quality improvement in each subject. For more information, please visit the official website, www.niets.or.th.