The purposes of study were: 1) to study the effectiveness of academic administration for improving the quality of student learning in Buddhist upper secondary education in southern Vietnam based on planning, instruction, curriculum implementation and evaluation; 2) to compare the opinions about the effectiveness of academic administration for improving the quality of student learning in Buddhist upper secondary education in southern Vietnam based on planning, instruction, curriculum implementation and evaluation classified by the samples’ personal factors: position, education and work experience; 3) to study the methods of effectiveness of academic administration for improving the quality of student learning in Buddhist upper secondary education in southern Vietnam based on planning, instruction, curriculum implementation and evaluation. This study was conducted by the mixed methods research including qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. The samples were 127 persons including administrators and teachers. The research instruments were a questionnaire and an interview and the statistics used were: Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, F-test, One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) accordance with Scheffe’s method.

The results of study were as follows:

1) The study of the effectiveness of academic administration for improving the quality of student learning in Buddhist upper secondary education based on planning, instruction, curriculum implementation and evaluation revealed that the highest one was evaluation and the lowest one was curriculum implementation.

2) The comparisons of the effectiveness of academic administration for improving the quality of student learning based on planning, instruction, curriculum implementation and evaluation classified by positions show the different opinions between instruction with the mean difference at the significant level of 0.05, and the work experiences shows the different opinions between curriculum implementation with the mean difference at the significant level of 0.05, but education and evaluation were not different.

3) The methods of the effectiveness of academic administration for improving the quality of student learning based on planning, instruction, curriculum implementation and evaluation were as follows:

Administrators and teachers need to improve training curriculum and enhancing program management, know about curriculum resources and technologies which make humble and easy to learn, plan based on school curriculum, time to start and finish the school plan clearly and often has a meeting to monitor it, define the good instruction that can leads to effective student learning, guide students to create learning activity in classroom and self-study and use student-centered rather than teacher-centered methods during teaching and learning, properly monitor of curriculum implementation and regularly retrain programs for practicing teachers to improve their instruction, and evaluate student learning dramatically which can improve teaching effectiveness and provide learning activity, evaluate a school plan and the student learning results as well as find the strength and weakness of school plan and student outcome for more improving.

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