The politics of early assessment in mathematics education
2019 (English)In: Proceedings of the Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education / [ed] Jankvist, U. T., Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, M., & Veldhuis, M., Utrecht: Freudenthal Group & Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University and ERME , 2019, p. 1831-1838Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
One of the latest reforms in Sweden in order to increase equity and quality in education is making national assessment compulsory in preschool-class (age 6). The claimed political volition is all students’ best possible mathematical development. In this paper, we examine the preparatory work, the assignment to the National Agency of Education, and the assessment material itself, searching for what meaning is inscribed regarding the student, mathematics and assessment. The results imply that the politics of the assessment might exaggerate a search for flaws and control instead of promoting all students learning and in addition contributing to the schoolification of preschool-class.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Utrecht: Freudenthal Group & Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University and ERME , 2019. p. 1831-1838
Series
European Society for Research in Mathematics Education
Keywords [en]
Early assessment, preschool-class, development in mathematics, national assessment.
National Category
Pedagogy
Research subject
Education
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-79364ISBN: 9789073346758 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-79364DiVA, id: diva2:1388586
Conference
11th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME11), Utrecht, the Netherlands, February 6-10, 2019
2020-01-262020-01-262023-05-02Bibliographically approved