Formativ bedömning i historieämnet : En kvalitativ intervjustudie av lärares uppfattningar om formativ bedömning i historieämnet

Sammanfattning: In my research, I conducted semi-structured interviews with the help of a qualitative method to investigate how formative assessment is applied by teachers and what the pros and cons they experience there are. The interviewed teachers have presented several different methods and strategies for how they apply formative assessment in the history subject, they have also presented the advantages and disadvantages of formative assessment in the history subject. The methods presented by the teacher include two stars and a wish in which the teacher gives students formative feedback in the form of a comment on what can be improved and two comments on what was good about the work. Another method is self-assessing in which students can judge themselves on a scale of 1-10 where 10 is that they have worked to the best of their ability. The advantages presented by several teachers are that the formative assessment helps students to advance their learning, it develops into the tool that helps students to develop the ability to reflect and analyze their own knowledge development. Some disadvantages presented are that teachers find it more difficult to work with assessment in the history subject because of the substance and it becomes harder for the teachers to motivate their students to learn compared to other subjects. Another disadvantage is that skills must be developed in the subject of history and the teachers find that it can be difficult to take on what abilities it is that should be developed and how to proceed.