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Tossavainen, Timo; Faarinen, Ewa-Charlotte – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
Background: In Sweden, the introduction of new national curricula for primary and secondary schools has implied, for example, that programming has become a compulsory part of mathematics education since August 2018. We study Swedish fifth and sixth graders and the distributions of their motivational values related to studying mathematics with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Sporre, Karin – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
The purpose of this study is to describe, critically analyse and discuss the Swedish system of assessing ethics education in compulsory school through national tests. The publicly available tests from 2013 for grades six and nine have been studied as have the assessment instructions for teachers. Staff responsible for the test construction have…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests
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Klapp, Alli; Cliffordson, Christina; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – Educational Psychology, 2016
The purpose of the study was to investigate how grading of students in primary school affected achievement measured by grades one year later, and how the effect varied as a function of cognitive ability, gender and socio-economic status. The data derive from The Evaluation Through Follow Up longitudinal project. Through a national curriculum…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compulsory Education, Gender Differences, Cognitive Ability