“Stop the digital national tests”

There is no reason to believe that the National Agency for Education’s current system for digital national tests can be carried out on a full scale.

Therefore, pull in the emergency brake and stop the tests, urge several teachers and researchers.

The call is presented in a debate article in Svenska Dagbladet and the background is the cross -rivet the National Agency for Education this week. A number of sub -tests in the national tests that would be conducted in the National Agency for Education’s nationwide test platform were canceled after student tasks leaked to teachers at other schools.

Students may write the tests in quickly printed paper booklets instead.

But even before, there have been repeated delays, technical obstacles and “enormous difficulties” to make the test system work in the classrooms, according to the debaters.

Continuing hopes that the National Agency for Education’s current digital test system can ever be fully implemented would be “naive on the verge of service failure”, writes, among others, Professor Johan Magnusson at the University of Gothenburg and Jenny Sellberg, former assignment manager for the experimental activities with digital national tests.

Stopping the tests in their current form is to take responsibility. “The school minister must act and show leadership on a matter that affects hundreds of thousands of students and teachers every year,” the debaters write.