High-stakes, standardized testing has become the central tool for education reform and regulation in many countries. In Sweden, students’ scores on international tests like PISA and TIMSS have been decreasing year by year. The Minister of Education argues that the poor international test results are putting the Swedish economy at risk, and he has decided to reintroduce national tests in mathematics and Swedish for younger children as a way to overcome this “failure.”
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