Vietnamese students lead Southeast Asia in Math and Reading

According to the 2024 Southeast Asian primary school student learning outcomes assessment data recently released by the ASEAN Ministers of Education (SEAMEO) Secretariat in the Philippines, Vietnamese primary school students are leading among 7 ASEAN countries in Mathematics and Reading.

Seven countries participated in the cycle: Cambodia, Timor Leste, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam, but Timor Leste's results were not mentioned.

In this 2024 cycle, Vietnam has 152 primary education institutions in 53 provinces/cities (old) participating in the survey, with 152 primary school principals, 1,074 teachers teaching grade 5 subjects, about 6,000 grade 5 students and 6,000 parents.

According to the report published by the SEAMEO Secretariat, Grade 5 students in the region maintained stable reading results and increased slightly in mathematics results. In the 2024 cycle, Grade 5 students continued to achieve the highest score in reading comprehension with an average score of 323.5 points (a decrease of about 3.86% compared to the 2019 cycle).

Vietnamese primary school students continue to lead among seven Southeast Asian countries in Math and Reading scores.

Notably, in the 2024 cycle, the rate of Vietnamese students achieving high proficiency in the Reading Comprehension area was 66%, higher than the rate of the remaining countries and higher than the regional average (40%).

In the 2024 cycle, the rate of Vietnamese students achieving high proficiency in Mathematics was 88%, higher than the rate of the remaining countries and higher than the regional average (36%).

Vietnam has the highest percentage of students achieving minimum proficiency levels compared to the Sustainable Development Goals in Reading (86%) and Mathematics (95%) according to the 2024 results.

Permanent Deputy Minister of Education and Training Pham Ngoc Thuong affirmed that the success of the 5-year Strategic Plan for the period 2021-2025, including the implementation of the SEA-PLM Program for the 2024 cycle, is a testament to the spirit of close cooperation and commitment to improving the quality of education in the entire region.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training highly appreciates the value of the 2024 SEA-PLM Program data set and report for Vietnam as well as other countries in building and implementing strategies and policies for educational development in the coming time.

Source: https://cand.com.vn/giao-duc/hoc-sinh-viet-dan-dau-dong-nam-a-ve-mon-toan-va-doc-hieu-i790165/