@article{MAKHILLTSS201813124587, title = {The Relationship Between External Quality Assessment and the Progress of Sixth Grade Student’s Learning Outcome of Basic Education in Thailand}, journal = {The Social Sciences}, volume = {13}, number = {1}, pages = {196-205}, year = {2018}, issn = {1818-5800}, doi = {sscience.2018.196.205}, url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1818-5800&doi=sscience.2018.196.205}, author = {Suntonrapot}, keywords = {Educational standard,quality assurance,students outcome,national achievement,school classification,assessment}, abstract = {This research has three main objectives which are; to study the external quality assessment; to group educational institutions classified by the result of external quality assessment; to compare the change of Ordinary National Educational Testing scores between the school groups which have different the third-round external quality assessment score for basic education in Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, English and Thai language subjects. Research data was a secondary data including the third round of external quality assessment results and the Ordinary National Educational Testing scores (O-NET) from 2011-2015. The research data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, latent profile analysis: LPA and mixed-model ANOVA. The findings were the assessment results: the educational institutions quality assessment result was higher than 80%, except for the learning achievement indicator that had the least value. The educational institutions were classified into four groups; urgent support needed group (4.90%), internal quality assurance emphasizing group (11.00%), quality group (71.30%) and identity emphasizing group (12.70%). The educational institutions in quality group had the level of O-NET scores development better than other groups.} }