Teachers are pressured to raise score.

Sweden12 October, 2016 06:06

Teachers are pressured by their bosses to put a higher grade than they thought. It is also the case that principals change in the ratings behind the backs of the teacher, shows SVT’s uppdrag granskning.

Teachers are pressured by their bosses to put the higher score, shows the Mission Review in the evening. Arkivbild.Image: Jessica Gow/TT

at the same time that Swedish students show up all the worse knowledge in international organizations, knowledge measurements have betygssnittet been raised. Mission Review shows in tonight’s episode, an important explanation for the betygsinflationen: school directors – both independent and municipal schools – want to have happy students and parents, and are prepared to compromise on regulations for fulfilling the wishes. Otherwise, the risk is that the families choose a different school.

In the program testify to several teachers about how the neighborhoods of their managers to put higher score than what they themselves believe is right and proper. In a sound recording, made surreptitiously, you hear a president explain to one of his teachers that if a student at a single time performed at the highest level, so it is enough for a final grade of A. A line of reasoning that is rejected by the experts. However, the current teacher fell to little and raise the grades, in some cases with multiple steps.

In a survey answered by 682 teachers report 218 to the experienced that the principal attempted to influence their grading.

the Mission Review also provides examples of when the principals themselves, have raised the score, without the teacher’s knowledge, which is a violation of the education act. But betygsfrågor has not a high priority of the Inspectorate, but when a notification of the grading will be prompted the principal to make an investigation.

The national tests to help schools to put fair score. But neither the enough. A couple of students says in the program that they are already ahead of a national test were promised a certain grade, so long as they are not performed too poorly on the test. In an audio recording is also heard a principal explain to a student that perhaps he should not write the test, because he then risks getting a lower score.