Denna studie undersöker bedömning och strategier i bildundervisningen. Forskningsfrågorna syftar till att synliggöra vad verksamma bildlärare bedömer i elevernas arbeten, vilka bedömningsstrategier de använder sig av samt vilka utmaningar som kan urskiljas vid bedömningsarbete och betygssättning. Studiens empiri består av kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju bildlärare där materialet har bearbetats och analyserats utifrån en innehållsanalys och med studiens två teorier, läroplansteorin samt ramfaktorteorin, som utgångspunkt. Resultatet visar att det som lärarna bedömer är arbetsprocessen och slutresultatet, planering och självständighet samt närvaro under lektionstid. De bedömningsstrategier lärarna använder i formativ- och summativ bedömning är: observationer och frågor, sortering i betygsnivåer, färgkodning, matriser, digitala portföljer och kollegial sambedömning. Slutligen visar studien de utmaningar som förekommer vid bedömningsarbete och betygsättning, som främst handlar om olika ramfaktorer. Dessa är tillgången till bildsal och material, digitala verktyg, elevantal, tidsaspekt, kursplanens formulering samt avvägning vid bedömning.

This explorative research paper looks at the attitudes and experiences of four EFL teachers towards assessment of English as a foreign language. The study was carried out using qualitative research with semi-structured interviews. The paper discusses factors that impact attitudes towards assessment. Our findings show that assessment is affected by a variety of factors, including colleagues, the head teacher and guiding documents. Furthermore, this paper identifies the need for more teacher education regarding the process of assessment, specifically formative assessment.

Previous research shows that English teachers in Sweden struggle with the assessment of oral proficiency. The reasons for this are several but most of them have occurred in the gap between the intended and perceived curriculum. English teachers interpret the knowledge requirements within oral proficiency differently because of their pedagogical background and experience. This study investigates teachers’ interpretations of the intended presentation of interaction and fluency in the oral proficiency knowledge requirements. The study also investigates what methods and procedures the teachers use when assessing the two abilities and what views the teachers have on the syllabus and assessment support. Semi-structured interviews were organized with four different English teachers with extensive experience in teaching and assessing English in Sweden. The data from the interviews were analyzed through the use of qualitative content analysis in order to find potential links between results and earlier conducted research. The results suggest that the English teachers interpreted, valued, and assessed interaction and fluency differently in relation to the knowledge requirements. The teachers also promoted the knowledge requirements from the Oral National Test since these simplified the interpretation of aspects such as interaction and fluency. The teachers did not present the syllabus as poor or complex, but their exclusive use of Oral National Test knowledge requirements and assessment material suggested something else. Along with this result, all teachers criticized the assessment support that comes with the knowledge requirements in the syllabus. The assessment support was thus something several of the teachers mentioned as key along with the implementation of co-assessment for future reliability within oral proficiency assessment.