the Purpose of the national tests is that the grading should be equal and fair, regardless of the school and locality. Then in the year have the test results in addition received a greater weight in the grading.
the Sample value is eroded, of course, if the rules are not followed, as has happened repeatedly in recent years. Provuppgifter and answer key has been compromised and circulated in advance among the students via social media. Spring semester 2017 and the spring 18 was in a total of ten cases the spread is so great that the schools were allowed to use ersättningsprov instead.
and thus a risk of unauthorised disclosure, the problem becomes even greater. From 2017 there are 55 incidents documented by the national agency for Education and in the spring of 2018 is the 42 cases, according to the national audit office.
– It is about flaws in the specimen handling steps or individual cases of proliferation, perhaps only among a few students at a school, says auditor Elin Sundberg.
Flaws in the specimen handling steps can, for instance, mean that the samples have not been locked or that teachers are for some reason allowed the students to take part of the provuppgifter.
about a growing problem it was not before the agency pulled the emergency brake. First, this autumn, the national agency for Education adequate procedures in place. Cooperation with the Swedish schools Inspectorate to curb cheating was started first in the spring.
– We believe that many of the actions made in the year should have come 2017. But we have not investigated the reason why it was delayed, ” says Elin Sundberg.
the national agency for Education has in years, inter alia, postponed the mails of the sample and the time when the postal items may be opened. Answer key will also be sent out later, and some samples should have the same start time across the country.
is not completely satisfied. It calls for clear guidelines for when suspected cheating should be reported to the police and also recommends that the Swedish schools Inspectorate to see how the adult education (including SFI) manages the national tests.
It has been discussed, but the Swedish schools Inspectorate have not yet examined the risk of proliferation in adult education, says the auditor Elin Sundberg.
How it goes with the national tests this year remains to be seen. The vast majority are written during the spring semester.
the 30-odd accused in högskoleprovshärva
