The aim of this study is to investigate how teachers in Sweden and Vietnam provides formative feedback to their pupils. It is our ambition to find out what differences and similarities there are in how and why teachers work with formative feedback, in both countries. Moreover, the last aim is to look at how Swedish teachers and Vietnamese teachers can learn from each other. We will interview two teachers from Sweden and two from Vietnam to see how they work with formative feedback. All interviewees are English teachers and work in primary school. We found that formative feedback is something all four teachers work with, more or less. However, they all express that oral formative feedback occur more often than written. Of course there are a lot of differences of the implementation of feedback but we can find multiple similarities as well. Furthermore, differences are many in the two countries, for example, the amount of pupils in classes. Another example is that the teachers in Vietnam had no knowledge about formative feedback before our interviews. Still, they manage to implement formative feedback in different ways, without the proper terms.

Recent research has shown that summative feedback has a negative effect on pupils’ learning, because the feedback given lacks information sufficient to pupils. This compared to formative feedback which has shown positive results on pupils learning (William 2019). Despite the positive research results, it is problematic to implement the method in to practical teaching (Grevholm 2012). The purpose of this study is to analyze how formative feedback is used in mathematical teaching for grades 4-6 in Swedish schools. The study aims to answer the following questions: How is formative- and summative feedback in mathematics given? How is verbal feedback in mathematics used? This study has used the qualitative methods observation and interview to get a deeper insight of individual choices made by teachers. To analyze the collected materials, the theory of formative feedback in different levels have been used. The results show that the most common used formative feedback was in a verbal form. Verbal formative feedback was preferred since it involves direct communication, seldomly misunderstood. The results also show that written formative feedback was rarely given because it was considered time-consuming. Verbal formative feedback was mostly given to the pupils on a self-regulation level.

This essay approaches the different kinds of feedback that teachers in Spanish give to their secondary level students in Sweden. The purpose of the study is to investigate how feedback is perceived by students and how students would like feedback to be. Classical studies about assessment divide feedback into two categories: formative feedback and summative feedback. Our study intends, on the one hand, to analyze if students perceive receiving one of these kinds of feedback more than the other. On the other hand, the study intends to find out if students prefer summative or formative feedback. Furthermore, we aim to analyze if there is a link between the students´ perceptions and preferences and their level of proficiency in the Spanish language. The study was carried out with 190 students from Småland (Sweden) that were studying Spanish as a foreign language at school. We used questionnaires in order to gather information about the feedback they get in their Spanish lessons and the feedback they personally prefer. The results of the study show that students do perceive receiving more summative feedback than formative feeback. The students who perceive a higher reception of formative feedback are those who have a higher proficiency in Spanish, and this fact was proved to be statistically significant. The results of the study show as well that students like to get formative feedback as much as summative feedback. Nevertheless, the higher achivers do prefer getting formative feedback in a higher grade than the lower achievers, even though this could not be proved as statistically significant.

This study investigated teacher supervision methods in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the absence of state mandated requirements. The literature supports the use of formative and summative feedback, multiple data sources and methods, collaboration between teacher and supervisor, professional growth goals linked to school improvement, and measures of student learning.A web-based questionnaire was used to survey 229 public elementary school teachers across Virginia regarding which teacher supervision methods are used, teacher perception toward those methods, and whether teacher perceptions vary with the method, supervisor's leadership style, or teacher characteristics. The data suggest that a majority of school division supervision programs in Virginia used formative and summative methods with an emphasis on formative, and multiple data sources that measures of student learning and standardized test scores. A majority of supervision programs also emphasize collaboration between supervisor and teacher, and individual professional growth goals. Weak to moderate correlations and significant differences were found between measures of the dependent variable, teacher perceptions of supervision, and measures of the independent variable, method of supervision and aspects of the supervisor's leadership style.

The purpose of this literature study is to summarize current research to get insight in the use of digital tools for educational purposes in school. As the digital world integrates more into school and society, this can be considered to be an interesting and current topic. The main question to investigate here is therefore whether working with digital tools can promote students' mathematics skills or not. In order to get a substantiated answer, the inquiry also lies on the basis of two sub-questions: "How can you use digital aids during mathematics lessons?" and "What are the advantages and disadvantages of digital tools?". To answer these questions, several databases have been searched with various keywords. In total, 10 different articles, that discuss different aspects of the subject, make out the basis of analysis. Results show that digital use can promote mathematics skills, depending on how and for what purpose it is used. There are also several approaches to the use, as well as several advantages and disadvantages with each of these.