Suntonrapot  Damrongpanit, 
    The Relationship Between External Quality Assessment and the
Progress of Sixth Grade Student’s Learning Outcome of
Basic Education in Thailand,
    The Social Sciences,
    Volume 13,Issue 1,
    2018,
    Pages 196-205,
    ISSN 1818-5800,
    sscience.2018.196.205,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2018.196.205)
    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.
    Keywords: Educational standard;quality assurance;students outcome;national achievement;school classification;assessment