NIETS arranged the first round of an online explication meeting for Non-Formal National Educational Test (N-NET) testing centers in the academic year 2024.

On July 8, 2024, the National Institute of Educational Testing Service (Public Organization), or NIETS, conducted the first round of an online explication meeting for Non-Formal National Educational Test (N-NET) testing centers in the academic year 2024. Participants came from the Department of Learning Encouragement, the Distance Education Institute, the Bangkok Office of Learning Encouragement, and the Provincial Office of Learning Encouragement (77 provinces) used the Zoom cloud meeting program.

Asst. Prof. Sirida Burachat, Ph.D, the director of NIETS assigned the deputy director (Warunee  Liewwiwatchai, Ph.D) to open the online conference and address the objectives of N-NET testing in the first round of the academic year 2024. The testing will begin on August 24 – 25, 2524, using the digital testing system for all students at the primary education level, the secondary education level, and the high school level. This test is not arranged for students in prison, the training center for children and youth, the protection and vocational training center, the juvenile observation and protection center, and Thanyarak Institute using the paper pencil testing format. NIETS appreciated the last N-NET testing’s well-organized coordination of examination centers and examination halls as a conservative operation, according to NIETS’s practices and standards of national education testing.

The chief of testing administration and center network division (Mr.Pattana Thanakorn) summarized the second round of N-NET testing results in 2023 and stated the testing format in the first round of N-NET testing in 2024, the testing administration at the examination center level and at the examination hall level. He gave advice on the preparatory steps for the testing management, which were: 1) the working team establishment at the examination center level 2) the coordination of education institutes for finding locations to be the examination halls 3) the operational guidelines for testing management using the digital testing system; and 4) the regulations for testing arrangements based on paper pencil formats. Both the coordinated examination centers and examination halls must be reminded that the testing management procedures conform to the operational practices of NIETS. At the end of the session, it was opened for answering participant inquiries and receiving suggestions related to the testing management operation.