Several errors have been discovered – which means that students will instead take replacement tests in the traditional way (paper and pen) or on the schools' own platforms.
Robin Smith, vice chairman of the Swedish Teachers' Association, says that he is one of the teachers affected by the Swedish National Agency for Education's decision. It means double work.
I and my colleagues are frustrated about all the work we have put in and the resources the school has invested in organizing this, he says.
Smith simultaneously describes "a bit of relief".
Now we can at least take the test in forms we are familiar with.
A few weeks ago, the grading inquiry was presented, which proposed digital national final exams.
It's not many years away. If you think about it, the Swedish National Agency for Education has been working for seven years to try to come up with this relatively simple solution that still doesn't work. Then you can wonder how to solve that task, says Smith.
The work on digitizing the national tests has been ongoing since 2017 and the Swedish National Agency for Education's costs for the project amount to 697 million kronor so far.
