The purpose of this study is to conduct a survey on primary school teachers who teach civic education from grades 2-9 and how they reason about individual development plans, written assessments and formative assessment as well as the correlation between them. The aim is also to see how these reasoning is consistent with the Education Act and to determine what development opportunities exist within the area. The results show that teachers perceive a lack of guidance from the Swedish Board of Education in terms of direction of how these documents will be used and how they are designed. The teachers also felt that a government standardization might be needed to expand and clarify student documentation, and develop and improve the formative features of these documents. The results indicate that the teachers' attitudes and perceptions of IUP, written assessments and formative assessment are in line with the Education Act (Department of Education, 2010).