Nguyen, P. L. T.
Large-scale assessment has been used at both the national and international level as indicators to measure the functioning, productivity and equity of educational systems. Besides implementing its own large-scale assessment projects, Vietnam has participated in several international large-scale assessment programs for general education. This paper first outlines the development history of education in Vietnam. Next, it presents a procedure to diagnose the factors of the general education that influence students’ learning outcomes, based on the collected data and results of national and international large-scale assessments. Finally, the goals, objectives, solutions, and reform programs would be designed from such procedure to improve the quality of education.