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“There are signs that a disproportionately large number of students have been excluded from the sample, and that Sweden has a high dropout rate of students who do not show up on exam day,” says Audit Director Sofia Sandgren Massih in a comment. written to TT.
Education Minister Anna Ekström (S) has previously asked the international cooperation organization OECD to review the student data in the Pisa survey again.
A message from the OECD is expected in the very near future: “at the end of September”.
The background of the two The reviews are that Sweden had an unusually high proportion of students who were excluded from writing the test in 2018: eleven percent. The limit is actually five percent.
The Swedish National Agency for Education, which is responsible for Pisa in Sweden, explained the high proportion that Sweden has received many young refugees who have not had time to learn Swedish, noting that the OECD has given its approval.
But according to Expressen, which examined the measurement methods, Swedish schools had also eliminated students who should have written the Pisa test, and that the National Education Agency had made incorrect calculations.
That was the situation in which the Minister of Education addressed the OECD.
On the question of the National Audit Office sees the risk that the OECD review is not enough, Sandgren Massih responds:
“The National Audit Office has other and better opportunities to receive information from the Swedish authorities and schools than the OECD. Our assessment is that our review can provide added value in addition to the OECD review. “
– It is an extremely important message that the National Audit Office, as an independent actor, enters and analyzes whether both the National Education Agency and the government have handled the Pisa survey correctly, says liberals education policy spokesman Roger Haddad.
Liberals and moderates, with the support of Christian Democrats and Swedish Democrats, have initiated an initiative in the Riksdag’s Education Committee on an independent review of student selection.
Those parts are critical to the government’s decision to let the OECD handle the review, as the OECD is primarily responsible for the Pisa survey globally.
This afternoon, however, the Riksdag is expected to vote against the initiative of M, L, KD and SD.
– We can’t do more in the Riksdag, says Haddad.
– That is why we welcome the fact that the National Audit Office is now taking the initiative.
The National Agency for Education and the Ministry of Education were already informed on September 21 about the initiative of the National Audit Office. However, the review has not been widely known until today, when Expressen reported on it.
OECD: s Pisamätningar they are known in most of the world. Measurements are generally considered robust, and individual country results often affect national education policy.
This is especially true in Sweden, which took a deep dive in terms of results in Pisa in 2012, with a series of political initiatives as a result. Since then, Sweden has reversed the trend.
In the latest Pisa survey, which was conducted in 2018 and released in December 2019, Swedish students performed better than in Pisa 2015. But the question is whether the result was fair.
The director general of the Swedish National Agency for Education, Peter Fredriksson, says that he has continued to trust the Pisa survey.
– I have no reason to question the Pisa study and the experience available at the OECD.
Does this also apply to the selection at Pisa 2018?
– Based on what we know so far, I see no reason to distrust the study. We have not seen any irregularities, nor did the OECD see them in the samples taken before the results were approved. Now we have to wait for the reviews that are relevant, says Peter Fredriksson.
