as emphasised in the folkeskole act danish students are to acquire not only subjectspecific knowledge but also crosscurricular learning goals such as imagination confidence collaboration and citizenship skills the common objectives provide a fairly broad curricular frame and the folkeskole reform again emphasises the importance of crosscurricular learning and the acquisition of competencies relying on a complex integration of knowledge skills attitudes and action according to houlberg et al although danish teachers use a wide range of student assessment methods in the classroom shewbridge et al