Up to Standard? : A CEFR-related comparative study of Swedish and Norwegian model texts for assessing the national exam in written English for 9th graders

Description

This study aims at exploring the quality of the Swedish and Norwegian national tests using their respective model texts for assessing. The study does so by relating them to the CEFR and the grading tool Write & Improve within the context of the two countries and the field of language testing. The study finds there to be a set of inconsistences between what the national tests want to do and what they actually do. In particular, the study finds the Swedish national test not to be up to its own standards.

Links & Downloads

1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-90531

Tags

standardized testing

Sweden

Norway

model text

CEFR

write & improve

language testing

Pedagogy

Pedagogik

General Language Studies and Linguistics

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-90531
Date	January 2019
Creators	Almqvist, Adam Simon
Publisher	Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess