Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec. 5 -- SEA-PLM was were released on December 4 in Manila, involving Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam.
In Viet Nam, about 6,000 Grade 5 students-together with their teachers and parents-from 152 primary schools nationwide took part in the assessment.
Viet Nam achieved an average score of 323.5 in Reading and 334.6 in Mathematics. Some 66 percent of Vietnamese pupils reached advanced proficiency in Reading, compared with the regional average of 40 percent, while 88 percent demonstrated advanced proficiency in Math, far above the regional average of 36 percent. The country also recorded the region's highest share of students meeting minimum proficiency levels aligned with the SD...