availability of results of national assessments in denmark who has access to the results consequently students parents and teachers can use assessment results to follow an individual student s acquisition of knowledge and skills and municipalities and schools can use the results to compare themselves against the national average and to aid decisionmaking but results cannot be used as a basis for systematic benchmarking and sharing of best practice among different schools and municipalities or for ranking municipalities or schools houlberg et al the national assessments were conceived i to provide a pedagogical tool for teachers against testable areas of the common objectives and ii to provide a tool for monitoring national progress over time through a national performance profile showing national average test results and to enable municipalities to monitor their schools against this national profile