Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem

Since the 1990s, the Swedish system of evaluation is criterion-referenced. In this system, one of the main purposes of national tests is to promote equity in assessment. This article explores how teachers in the subject fields of English and Swedish in compulsory school (grades 6 and 9), understand...

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Main Authors: Jenny Bonnevier, Eric Borgström, Daroon Yassin Falk
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Language:Danish
Published: Örebro University 2017-01-01
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Online Access:https://journals.oru.se/uod/article/view/1079
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description Since the 1990s, the Swedish system of evaluation is criterion-referenced. In this system, one of the main purposes of national tests is to promote equity in assessment. This article explores how teachers in the subject fields of English and Swedish in compulsory school (grades 6 and 9), understand the relationship between the act of grading and the national test results. We find that the teachers we have interviewed typically dismiss quantitative data and comparisons at aggregated levels and we argue that this dismissal has its root cause in an erroneous understanding of criterion-referenced assessment as completely independent of norms. A better, more nuanced understanding of the role of norms in criterion-referenced assessment would, we suggest, allow teachers to make better use of the potential of national tests in promoting equity.
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spellingShingle Jenny Bonnevier
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Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem
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riterion-referenced assessment
norm-referenced assessment
national tests
equity
title Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem
title_full Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem
title_fullStr Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem
title_full_unstemmed Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem
title_short Normers roll i ett mål- och kriterierelaterat bedömningssystem
title_sort normers roll i ett mal och kriterierelaterat bedomningssystem
topic riterion-referenced assessment
norm-referenced assessment
national tests
equity
url https://journals.oru.se/uod/article/view/1079
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