The call is made in a debate article in Svenska Dagbladet and the background is the U-turn the National Agency for Education was forced to make last week. A number of partial tests in the national tests that were to be conducted on the National Agency for Education's nationwide test platform were cancelled after student assignments leaked to teachers at other schools.
The students will have to write the tests in hastily printed paper booklets instead.
But already earlier, there have been repeated delays, technical obstacles and "enormous difficulties" in getting the test system to work in classrooms, according to the debaters.
To continue hoping that the National Agency for Education's current digital test system can ever be fully implemented would be "naive to the point of negligence", write, among others, Professor Johan Magnusson at the University of Gothenburg and Jenny Sellberg, former project manager for the pilot project with digital national tests.
To stop the tests in their current form is to take responsibility. "The Minister of Education must act and show leadership in an issue that affects hundreds of thousands of students and teachers every year", write the debaters.
