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The digital tests will now be stopped for a number of years, according to the minister.
Despite all the chaos, the Swedish National Agency for Education has planned to continue the rollout of digital national tests in 2026. But today, new information comes.
The final straw was several failures during the fall, according to Edholm. Problems also led to the exams being canceled this spring . And recently, the teachers’ union went on strike and demanded that the digital exams be paused.
“Needs a retake”
“The government, in dialogue with the Swedish National Agency for Education, has concluded that there is a need for a relaunch of the work on digital national tests ,” the Agency writes in a press release.
The national exams will now be taken on paper in the coming years, the agency writes.
The Swedish National Agency for Education’s Director General Joakim Malmström also points out that several reforms in the school sector are taking place in parallel, including a new grading system.
“By reviewing the current digitalization of the national exams, the Swedish National Agency for Education can better synchronize the work with other reforms,” the authority writes.
Lotta Edholm tells Ekot that it is “the very idea” that the grading system will be rolled out in three years, and that after this, digital national exams may become relevant again.
Echo: But it’s not certain that it will be like that?
– We must analyze all these problems that have occurred now and come back with an answer, says Lotta Edholm, to Ekot
Why are digital national exams being stopped?
Lott a Edholm has a hard time pointing out whose fault it is or where the responsibility lies.
The Swedish National Agency for Education was commissioned in 2017 to develop and prepare for digital national exams, which according to Ekot has cost nearly one billion kronor.
– We can conclude that the task of introducing digital national tests is a complex and challenging one that we have unfortunately not succeeded in. A re-launch is now needed to ensure that the school system receives secure, user-friendly and stable digital tests, says Joakim Malmström, Director General of the Swedish National Agency for Education .
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