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The Swedish Assessment Reform of 2011: A Reform in Constant Need of Ad Hoc Adjustment and Clarification
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8173-7474
2020 (English)In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2020Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Curriculum and assessment systems are tightly connected, both in theory and practice. However, this is not always the case when it comes to curriculum and assessment reforms. This has created major problems for teachers and in the implementation of the reforms from a governing point of view. Sweden was one of the first countries to adopt a management-by-objectives curriculum and assessment system. The case of Sweden illustrates some of the problems that arose as a consequence of not seeing the close connection between curriculum and assessments when reforming the educational system. The ongoing reform of management by objectives that started in the early 1990s has been adjusted several times since and has most recently been considered as a parallel curriculum and assessment reform. Teachers have not been involved throughout the shaping and implementation of this reform, but they have instead been seen as troublesome learners of how to work in a management-by-objectives system. This has led to constant revisions, production of supporting materials, and ad hoc policies. However, in 2018 there was a shift in reform strategies in relation to curriculum, syllabi, and grading revisions, where teachers became much more involved in the reform than they had in the preceding decades. So far it is inconclusive how these changes will affect the work of the teachers and the pupils’ learning; there has evidently been a case of “system’s learning.”

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Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2020.
Keywords [en]
curriculum, assessment, grading, reform, teachers work, Sweden
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Pedagogy
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Education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-88198OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-88198DiVA, id: diva2:1512793
Available from: 2020-12-28 Created: 2020-12-28 Last updated: 2021-01-13Bibliographically approved

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