National assessment in Mathematics for students with Intellectual disabilities, an implementation study. (NaMId)

External project members
Anette Bagger, professor Högskolan Dalarna and Daniel Östlund, professor Högskolan Kristianstad.

The project provides new insights into how students' knowledge and assessments are influenced over time and how assessments can be made fairer and more accessible for students in Compulsory Schools for Students with Intellectual Disability.

Project objective

The purpose of this ethically vetted pilot project (diarenummer här) is to contribute knowledge on the governing and implementation of national assessment in mathematics for students with intellectual disabilities (ID), or more precisely students who are following the Curriculum for Compulsory Schools for Students with Intellectual Disability (CSSID). A second aim is to develop theory and methods that is valid for the school form, its culture and national assessment in that setting.

Attention and research on mathematics as a subject and national assessment for students with ID is scarce and knowledge is lacking at the same time as this school form is undergoing big changes. The project adopts a practice-based close approach and design in the exploration of teachers' work with the assessment material before, during, and after the assessment. In prolongation, the project contributes knowledge that might support fair and supportive national assessment in mathematics for students with intellectual disabilities (ID).

The study is conducted as a collaboration between Mälardalen University, through the principal investigator Assistant Professor Anna-Lena Andersson, Dalarna University through Professor Anette Bagger, and Kristianstad University through Professor Daniel Östlund.