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Matematiklärares syn på examination i högre utbildning: Validiteten i underläge
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Learning.
2025 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
Mathematics teachers’ views on summative assessment in higher education : Validity at a disadvantage (English)
Abstract [sv]

Syftet med detta examensarbete är att utforska hur lärare i grundläggande matematikkurser på ett tekniskt lärosäte ser på examination.

Studien utfördes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex stycken lärare. Intervjuerna transkriberades och för analys av datan användes tematisk innehållsanalys. Från analysen skapades sju stycken teman: kunskaper och förmågor, viktigt i bedömning, utmaningar, hinder, utformning, utveckla, samt kritik och problematisering.

I diskussionen av resultatet identifierades två övergripande spänningar i lärarnas syn på bedömning. Den första är konflikten mellan kunskapssyn och bedömningspraktik. Detta innebär att det finns en ambition om att bedöma mer komplexa kunskaper och förmågor, men examinationen tenderar att fokusera på lägre ordningens kunskaper. Den andra konflikten är att reliabilitet värderas högre än validitet. Lärarna har ett stort fokus på att studenters lösningar ska bedömas på ett likvärdigt sätt, alltså att bedömningen ska ha hög reliabilitet. Detta värderas högre än validiteten i bedömningen, det vill säga om bedömningen faktiskt utvärderar det som man avser. Eftersom fokuset ligger på likvärdig bedömning blir det svårt för lärarna att uppnå ambitionen att bedöma mer komplex kunskap.

Utifrån diskussionen dras slutsatsen att lärarna behöver kompetensutveckling för att kunna diskutera och utveckla examinationen på ett genomtänkt sätt.

Abstract [en]

The aim of this thesis is to explore how teachers in introductory mathematics courses at a technical university view assessment.

The study was conducted through semi-structured interviews with six teachers. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed with thematic content analysis. Seven themes were created from the analysis: knowledge and abilities, important in assessment, challenges, obstacles, design, develop, and criticism and problematization.

In the discussion of the result, two overall tensions were identified in the teachers’ view of assessment. The first is the conflict between the view of knowledge and assessment practice. This means that there is an ambition to assess more complex knowledge and abilities, but the examination tends to focus on lower order knowledge. The second conflict is that reliability is valued higher than validity. The teachers have a strong focus on students’ solutions being assessed in an equal way, meaning that the assessment must have high reliability. This is valued higher than the validity of the assessment, meaning whether the assessment actually evaluates what is intended. Since there is an ambition to assess more complexly, a conflict is identified between this and the focus on equivalent assessment.

Based on the discussion, it is concluded that teachers need competence development to be able to discuss and develop the examination in a well-thought-out way.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2025. , p. 43
Series
TRITA-ITM-EX ; 2024:586
Keywords [en]
assessment, teachers’ views, mathematics, reliability, validity, digitalization, higher education
Keywords [sv]
bedömning, lärares uppfattningar, matematik, reliabilitet, validitet, digitalisering, högre utbildning
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Other Engineering and Technologies Other Educational Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-360507OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-360507DiVA, id: diva2:1940569
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Master of Science in Engineering - Engineering and of Education
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Available from: 2025-02-26 Created: 2025-02-26 Last updated: 2025-02-27Bibliographically approved

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