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Originally Posted by ma-skis.com
I'll provide a comment here since I ended up working in Swedens education system for a couple years.
Another side note, since the topic of diploma marking is occuring. National exams are marked by the individual schools in June. Every September an article in the newspaper comes out listing specific schools that either marked too hard or too easy on the National test. Interesting times with education over there. I always heard that Sweden had a good educational system, and maybe they did a long time ago, but right now it seems to be having quite a few issues and despite all of our complaints, Alberta isn't doing as poorly as we may tend to think. The fact that so many people in this forum have questions, concerns and comments on this is a very good thing for the state of education in the province.
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thanks for the input.
I see this marking your own national exams as a terrible idea to evaluate students. Teachers are incentivised to inflate grades as it will improve their school performance and personal performance. The Alberta model of centralized grading will get much better results.
There was a recent case of this in Calgary where a private schools marks consistently had higher gaps between the 50% of the school grades than the diploma exam grade. At least with central marking you can identify these trends.