Criticism is always welcome.
How to write education minister Merete Riisager (LA) on Wednesday in a written response to Ritzau, according to the Ministry of education on Tuesday was subjected to significant criticism from the rapporteurs from opposition parties on the national tests in primary schools.
Folkeskoleordfører Marianne Effect (S) believed in the newspaper Politiken, that it was ‘a scandal’, that the Ministry of education in a memo in February 2016 failed to write in notatets summary, that there was uncertainty about the results of the tests.
In the memorandum of 24 pages, entitled ‘Study of the national tests and reliability’, read on to page ten, before you look, there is uncertainty about the results in 19 of the 30 investigated profilområder.
the Summary is on page one and two in the note.
Criticism is always welcome, and I completely agree that we need to have a thorough debate about the national tests, and what they should contain, and what we want to use them, writes Merete Riisager to the news agency Ritzau.
– Therefore, I decided already in 2018 to send the national test for inspection. They are, after all ten years old, and there is a need to revise them. We have made a thorough evaluation in the time, coming all the way around on the national test.
– I have been very aware of to be both practitioners and researchers involved prior to the evaluation of the national tests, so we have a broad and comprehensive assessment and some pointers to which politicians can make decisions on the basis of, writes to the minister for education.
Marianne Effect got in the newspaper Politiken support for his criticism of SF’s undervisningsordfører, Jacob Mark, as well as During the undervisningsordfører, Annette Lind.
Jacob Mark, said on Tuesday to the news agency Ritzau that he is ‘appalled by the fact that the ministry has kept on so that important information on tests to measure our children academically’.
According to Jacob Mark should the ministry have responded with the same, as it was familiar with the information in 2016. He has, therefore, called the minister, in consultation.
He wants to ‘put the tests on hold and in the best case, drop them completely’.