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The last national tests will be held on May 20, and now Anders Boman, unit manager for national tests at the National Agency for Education, hopes that the positive development will continue.
- So far, no test this year has been distributed before the test occasions. However, during the test and afterwards, but then they can not be used to cheat. However, it is obviously a problem that confidentiality has been broken and test questions may need to be changed to other years, he says.
NP hot topic of discussion on social media
Discussions about national tests have been going on for several weeks in various teacher forums. The recurring question has been whether the national tests have been distributed before the test occasions and whether they are then useless in the assessment of the students and the grading.
The National Agency for Education has also followed the discussions among the teachers and has also received occasional reports which they have followed up. Among other things, there have been old national tests where someone has changed the year of the test to 2022 and posted it on social media. There have also been partial exams in, among other things, mathematics from this year's national exams which have been posted on social media, but they have thus, according to Anders Boman at the National Agency for Education, been leaked during the exam or posted shortly afterwards.
There have also been alarms from teachers, including in Örebro, where students are suspected of having looked at tests the night before the test, but it has not been possible to confirm at check that some tests have a greater viral spread, according to Anders Boman.
- We are actually very happy about this. It has not happened since 2011. What we see this year is that all teachers and principals at the schools seem to have handled the tests in a good way, he says.
Teachers avoid extra work
This means that the national tests this year can be used for assessment and grading and that teachers avoid all the extra work that it entails to produce replacement tests after national tests have been leaked.
- It has been extremely difficult in previous years for many teachers and increased their workload when it was discovered that national tests were spread and they have spent a lot of time without being able to take advantage of the benefits of the tests, says Anders Boman.