ICT and assessment

in Denmark

Steen Lassen, Danish Ministry of Education

steen.lassen@uvm.dk
Fig. 1: Student in the classroom
Fig. 2: Student during exam
Upper secondary education
• Age 16-19, preparation for higher education
• Three 3-year academic programmes
• General upper secondary programme
• Commercial upper secondary programme
• Technical upper secondary programme
• Carried out in special institutions for upper
secondary only
• Selfgoverning institutions run by a board
• Statefunded, per capita grants
• MoE draws up curricula for subjects and multi-
subject courses and organizes examination
ICT in Upper Secondary Education
• 100% of the schools have LMS
• 100% of the schools have a website
• 87% of the teachers use the internet when preparing
for lessons
• 70% of the teachers use ICT for communication with
students at least every week
• 98% of the teachers use ICT in class
The ministerial orders and ICT
• Use of ICT mandatory in all curricula
• Up 25% of the lessons can be spent on virtually
organised teaching
• The definition of written homework now include
multimedia-products and powerpoint – not only
paperbased writing
• All use of ICT is allowed during all examinations,
oral or written (no connection to internet)
ICT and exam
• 1994 option in a few subjects, mainly word processing
• 1997 in commercial and technical: permitted in all
written examinations
• 2000 allowed in all programmes
• 2000 in commercial: 98% of the students used a pc at
the written examination in Danish
ICT-based exam assignments
• Since 2001 in the programmes hhx and htx
(commercial and technical upper secondary)
• Subjects: Danish, Math, Business Economics,
Physics and English
• CD-rom, no connection to the internet
• Student paper still printed on paper
 Eksempler på opgaver, dansk

• Opgave A
Laurits Munch-Petersen: "Tre på en motorcykel".
New media Kortfilm, 2001.
Vist på DR1, august 2002.
Varighed: 7 min. 58 sek.

Foretag en analyse og fortolkning af ”Tre på en

motorcykel”.
 • Opgave C

Karen Blixen: ”De blå øjne”.

Oprindelig en del af novellen "Peter og Rosa" fra "Vintereventyr", 1942.

Edvard Munch: ”Jalousi”, 1894-95.

Oliemaleri, 66,8 x 100 cm.
Foretag en analyse, fortolkning og sammenligning af ”De blå øjne” og
”Jalousi”.

More facts for Inspirationsmateriale:

inspiration Præsentation af ”Vintereventyr”.
Fra ”Kulturkanon”, udgivet af Kulturministeriet og Politikens Forlag, 2006.
Edvard Munch.
Opslagsartikel fra "Den Store Danske Encyklopædi", bd. 13, 1999.

Ekspressionisme.
Uddrag fra Johannes Fibiger og Gerd Lütken: "Litteraturens veje", 1996.

Fantastisk litteratur.
Uddrag fra Lars Tonnesen og Andreas Tonnesen: ”Litteraturens Begreber”,
2004.
Eksempel på opgave, fysik
Opgave 1: Model af broklap

For at undersøge en planlagt bro er der blevet lavet en model, der skal vise hvor stærk og
holdbar broen er. Den består blandt andet af en broklap, der kan hæves og sænkes.
Først er det blevet undersøgt, hvordan broklappen bevæger sig, når den er blevet løftet, og
falder ned igen uden modstand.

Figur 1
Broklap der er hævet (til venstre) og sænket (til højre)

Vedlagt er data fra en måling af broklappens fald, dels som tekst fil og dels i Excel
1.000 datas for
format. Dataene består af 5 kolonner: Tid efter start på faldet, broens oververflades vinkel
med vandret både i radian og i grader, vinkelhastigheden og endelig tyngdekraftens
calculations
kraftmoment på broklappen om broklappens hængsel.
 Cross curricular
exam assignment
for two subjects:
a case-study with a
portrait of a Danish
enterprise including
a large amount
of information
Experiences
• Students find it more motivating with more visual
and non-linear materials
• Teachers and students are pleased with the new
media: shortfilms, websites, sound etc.
• Teachers and students are pleased with the new
possibilities in the student’s paper: cut&paste…
• The new assignments has increased the use of ICT
and new media in the classroom
New pilot project: access to internet

• The limitations are the prohibition against use of the

internet, control when wireless connection – and the
missing link to the students daily use
• New pilot project with ICT-based exam assignment
with access to the internet
• 3 subjects in general upper secondary (first time) and 3
subjects in commercial upper secondary (hhx)
• Start January 2008, first exam assignments in June
2010
• The subjects are in General Upper Secondary:
Danish, Math and Social Science
• - and in Commercial Upper Secondary: Business
Economics, Marketing and International Economics
How to avoid cheating?
• The problem is not new, students have always been
cheating
• Teach the students academic standards (part of the
curriculum: how to use the Internet, rules for
quotation etc)
• Type of assignment, testing competences/use and
not just repetition
• Focus on the consequences: exclusion from exam –
next possibility June next year
• All exam papers will go through copy-control /
plagiarism control on the internet, some exam
papers log file showing the traffic on the internet
As much involvement as possible
• Four test-assignments made for use at the pilot
schools. Sent to all schools for information
• Meeting each year in all subjects between the pilot
teachers and the examinations committee
• Conference each year in all subjects open for all
teachers to discuss the pilot and the test-
assignments
Digitalizing the whole process
• Today the process is partly paperbased. We try now
to digitalize the whole process
• The examinations committee only work digitally, the
assignment completely digital, the exam paper com-
pletely digital and the marking completely digital
• The entire process from the first idea in the
examination committee to the student get their marks
will be digital