The national strategy ‘Tett på realfag. The national strategy for Science and Mathematics in kindergarten and primary and secondary education (2015-2019)’ shall be evaluated during the period 2017 — 2021. The evaluation shall include several levels: municipalities and counties, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools encompassing management, teachers and students, as well as use of competence and professional resources from national centres, science centres and the Higher Education sector.

The challenges in the evaluation shall follow the strategy's four goals and include the seven main concepts of the strategy. An evaluation and investigation of the status prior to the implementation of the strategy with data from 2014-2017 that shall be analysed against the performance measures in 2019/2020. The current research which measures changes in student performance over time in accounting and science and mathematics, as National tests, TIMSS and PISA is relevant in this context in addition to our own collected data in 2017 and 2020. The implementation of the strategy's initiatives and the management dialogue between government, owner level, kindergarten and school level shall be followed and analysed. Children and students' motivation for science and mathematics, along with student results shall be examined. Furthermore, skills upgrading in science and mathematics amongst school teachers and kindergarten teachers in nursery schools, as well as for other personnel shall be highlighted.

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