The doctoral thesis is written within the field of educational psychology, and has examined issues related to task-oriented reading processes with multiple documents in upper-secondary school students. More specifically, ...

This thesis comprises three articles and investigates students’ perceptions concerning the theme of democracy and politics in social studies in upper secondary school in Norway. It uses a multiple methods approach to study ...

The extent to which teachers adopt technology in their teaching practice has long been in the focus of research. Indeed, a plethora of models exist explaining influential factors and mechanisms of technology use in classrooms, ...

Et mål med innføringen av Kunnskapsløftet i 2006 var å styrke fremmedspråkenes forholdsvis svake stilling i ungdomsskolen. For å nå dette målet ble reglene for elevenes fagvalg skjerpet inn. Dessuten ble faget praktisk ...

This article-based thesis draws on research in the fields of science education and international large-scale assessments. It investigates theoretical, methodological, and empirical aspects of inquiry as an instructional ...

In the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2015, the educational systems from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium (Flanders), Germany, and Norway included scales capturing three dimensions of instructional quality ...

This chapter reports a doctoral study (Brevik, 2015) that investigated the practices involved in developing reading comprehension in English as a second language in upper secondary school; focusing specifically on reading ...

This thesis is about the perceptions of current feedback practices in English writing in a context where formative assessment (FA) is an underlying pedagogy. It investigates both teacher and student perspectives. The study ...

This study investigates the use of literary texts in 178 video-recorded LA lessons across 47 lower-secondary Norwegian classrooms. It offers a systematic overview of how literary texts are read, used, and discussed across ...

Are students transitioning from the secondary level to university studies in mathematics and engineering adequately prepared for education at the tertiary level? In this study, we discuss the prior mathematical knowledge ...

Avhandlingen utforsker hva som karakteriserer elevers samtaler underveis i et gruppearbeid i samfunnsfag på sjuende trinn. Analysene av samtalene har hatt til hensikt å få fram kunnskap som har relevans for å kunne forstå ...

Background This paper discusses a framework for analyzing the dependence on mathematical theory in test items, that is, a framework for discussing to what extent knowledge of mathematical theory is helpful ...

Worldwide, scholars and policymakers have called for teacher education to link fieldwork and coursework. This article examines teacher candidates’ opportunities to talk about field placement within their campus coursework ...

One major concern relating to teaching scientific inquiry is that many teachers show epistemologically naive beliefs about nature of science (NOS). In this study, we use in-depth interviews to identify an upper secondary ...

A large body of literature suggests that attitudes toward technology and its educational use are important determinants of technology acceptance and integration in classrooms. At the same time, teachers' Technological, ...

This study was conducted at the university of Oslo Department of Teacher Education and School Research. The thesis focusses on science education and particularly learner-active involvement in science learning. It aims to ...

Technology has become an ever-present factor in virtually every contemporary situation, and digital media has gained a significant role in the lives of young people. This article explores and compares the antecedents for ...

This thesis comprises three published articles and investigates the micro policy making of school principals, senior leaders, and teachers in Norwegian lower secondary schools. The first article investigated the stories ...

Formålet med denne avhandlingen i norsk fagdidaktikk er å undersøke norsklæreres vurderings- og særlig tilbakemeldingspraksis i lys av Vurdering for læring (VfL)-teori. Overordnet forskningsspørsmål er: Hva kjennetegner ...

Purpose: This paper examines teachers’ reported experiences, practices, and attitudes on the use of national test results in a low-stakes accountability context. Whether the stakes are high or low, teachers and school ...

Avhandlingen plasserer seg innenfor skriveforskning og skrivedidaktikk, og dreier seg om arbeid med argumenterende skriving i samfunnsfag og faget religion, livssyn og etikk (RLE) på grunnskolens ungdomstrinn. Den overordnede ...

Elever i norske videregående skoler har vanligvis tilgang til datamaskiner med internett-tilgang mens undervisningen pågår. Teknologitilgjengeligheten kan ha betydning for læreres mestringsforventninger til faglig undervisning. ...

Denne studien undersøker hvilke organisasjonsmessige faktorer som er relatert til læreres kollegiale hjelpsomhet med IKT i undervisning og læreres forbedringsbestrebelser. Analysen baseres seg på et utvalg av lærere i ...

Over the last decade, many countries have implemented assessment systems meant as tools for school improvement. This article examines how school leaders in Norway respond to the expectations of national authorities regarding ...

While it is generally assumed that the aim of teacher evaluation is to formatively support teachers’ professional development, research finds that teacher evaluation practices are predominantly summative. This paper describes ...

Denne artikkelen undersøker hvordan kunnskapsområder samvirker i lektorstu-denters undervisningspraksis og refleksjon over praksis. Hensikten med studien har vært å få en nyansert forståelse av hvordan kunnskapsintegrasjon ...

I dette kapitlet har vi sammenliknet naturfagskompetanser i rammeverket for PISA 2015 og den norske læreplanen i naturfag. Resultatene viser stor grad av samsvar mellom dokumentene. Det er størst samsvar mellom naturfaglæreplanen ...

The literature on successful schools has revealed that a school culture of high expectations is beneficial for student achievement and that leaders may exercise significant influence on their school’s success trajectory. ...

This paper investigates the experiences of students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) during their first year in higher education, based on 874 Danish and 1314 Norwegian students’ responses to an ...

Tema for denne studien er lektorstudenters vurderinger av veiledning i praksis. Data er innhentet fra studenter ved en lektorutdanning for 8–13. trinn når studentene er noe over halvveis i studiet: de har gjennomført faglig ...

Kartleggingsprøver i regning for småskoletrinnet ble innført i 2009 og kan sees som ett av tiltakene som skal hjelpe skolene med tidlig innsats. Prøvene skal brukes til å identifisere og følge opp elever under en ...

The aim of this article is to explore similarities and differences in teacher candidates’ perceptions of their opportunities to enact practice in university courses in five teacher education programmes, located in Norway, ...

In educational contexts, assessments may be designed to target students, preservice teachers, or teachers, either as individuals or as representatives of a group, and for a multitude of purposes. One key aim of assessment ...

Observation systems are increasingly used around the world for a variety of purposes; 2 critical purposes are to understand and to improve teaching. As observation systems differ considerably, individuals must decide what ...

Scholarship on Chinese civil society has produced rich empirical studies, but there have been few attempts to theorize the empirical knowledge acquired. Moreover, the question of how to conceptualize the political agency ...

The purpose of this study was to validate a new inventory designed to measure epistemic beliefs concerning the justification of knowledge claims encountered on the Internet. Confirmatory factor analysis of the scores of ...

In this article, we approach large questions regarding justice and equality in the Nordic classrooms. A substantial body of previous research emphasises the importance of student engagement in teaching and learning. Drawing ...

To support pupils’ learning, teachers must understand what and how their pupils have learned, and teacher education should teach candidates how to do this. This article reports on survey data (n = 270) from three programmes ...

Modern society requires people with positive attitudes toward science and who have science-related competences. This article will focus on Nordic students’ enjoyment in learning science, their self-efficacy in solving ...

Teacher educators and policymakers worldwide have called for a practice-based teacher education. However, the body of research on teacher education is limited, as is the knowledge about practice-based teacher education. ...

State school inspection in Norway has undergone multiple reform initiatives from the state level, a system predominantly aimed at controlling legal compliance of school districts and individual schools. Rather than focusing ...

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to explore how 16- to 17-year-old students’ experiences within the social studies classroom and their online political communication are related to their perceptions of citizenship ...

The study aimed to investigate variations in addition and subtraction fluency by observing grade three students in Norway (n = 253, Mage = 8.38 y.) and Finland (n = 209, Mage = 9.35 y.) while controlling for their age and ...

As digital technologies continue transforming the time and space boundaries that traditionally had been ascribed to different educational settings, the very notion of learning context also is being challenged in educational ...

This chapter focuses on the value dimension of sustainability and environmental education, pinpointing the concern for non-human life forms and future generations formulated by UNESCO at the outset of the United Nations ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how different styles of mentoring in teacher education relate to mentor characteristics. Pre-service teachers often want practical advice. However, in Norway, school mentors ...

This article addresses the policy implications of participation in international large-scale assessments (ILSAs), particularly the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and the ways in which such implications ...

This paper reports on a study of teacher support in experimental computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) settings where students engage with graphs in real-time labs within the context of school science. Real-time ...

In international research on medical education the concepts of professionalism and professional development have been increasingly focused. The article problematizes and discusses these concepts in relation to the Aristotelian ...

Skoleklima dreier seg om organisatoriske, fysiske og atferdsmessige forhold ved skolen. På bakgrunn av en systematisk kunnskapsoversikt mener Wang og Degol (2015) at skoleklima kan beskrives gjennom fire hovedområder med ...

Worldwide, teacher educators and policy makers have called for teacher preparation that is more deeply linked to practice. Yet we know little about how such linkages are achieved within different international programs. ...

I denne studien har vi analysert 22 av de totalt 91 innspillene som ble sendt til ministeren i forbindelse med utformingen av Stortingsmelding 16 (2016-2017) Kultur for kvalitet i høyere utdanning (Kunnskapsdepartementet, ...

Artikkelen rapporterer resultater fra en studie av veiledningssamtaler mellom 4 mentorer og 26 nyutdannede lærere som alle deltok i den norske veiledningsordningen for nyutdannede lærere. Foreløpig finnes det lite forskning ...

TIMSS og PISA måler fire dimensjoner av undervisningskvalitet: klasseledelse, støttende lærer, tydelige intensjoner og kognitive utfordringer. Dette kapitlet oppsummerer og diskuterer viktige funn fra analysene av norske ...

Likeverd er et viktig aspekt ved norsk skole, og forskjeller i prestasjoner knyttet til hjemmebakgrunn er små i Norge sett i et internasjonalt perspektiv. Likevel er det mye som tyder på at dette kanskje er i ferd med å ...

Research suggests that student development as writers requires a supportive environment in which they receive sustained opportunities to write. However, writing researchers in general know relatively little about the actual ...

In this qualitative study, we aimed at exploring acurriculum development process that took place at theMedical School of the University of Tromsoe during aperiod ofseven years. We applied the literature onorganizational ...

The paper aims to analyse how pupils’ equal educational opportunities are warranted. We focus on how regulations of adapted education and the right to special needs education provide school leaders’ and teachers’ room for ...

The contribution of Piotr Galperin (1902–1988) to cultural - historical theory and related approaches to pedagogy remains little known in the West and is often reduced to listing the phases of the formation of mental ...

Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i en kvalitativ studie blant ungdom i alderen 15-19 år i Groruddalen. Datamaterialet viser at de unge vurderer religion som et av skolens viktigste fag. De formidler at religionsfaget bidrar med ...

This study analyses reading proficiency, strategy use, and interest in English as the second language (L2) of 463 upper secondary students (16/17-year-olds). They were identified among a national sample of 10,331 students ...

TIMSS 1995 kan regnes som den første internasjonale undersøkelsen av sitt slag, og i de mer enn 20 årene som har gått, har vi sett en framvekst av flere og mer varierte internasjonale undersøkelser. I dette kapitlet gir ...

Does computer programming teach students how to think? Learning to program computers has gained considerable popularity, and educational systems around the world are encouraging students in schools and even children in ...

I TIMSS-undersøkelsene har spørsmål om motivasjon for naturfag (og matematikk) inngått i elevenes spørreskjema fra den første undersøkelsen i 1995 til den foreløpig siste i 2015. Motivasjon er delt opp i de tre aspektene ...

Et sentralt krav for den nasjonale rektorutdanningen i Norge er at den skal ha en praksisnær tilnærming til læring av ledelse. I denne artikkelen ser vi nærmere på hvordan begrepet «praksisorientering» kan forstås. Dernest ...

School leaders are faced with an unprecedented growth in school data accompanied by expectations that they use this data to improve their institutions. Current technologies enable complex processes of unifying and analysing ...

Worldwide, scholars and policymakers emphasise the importance of basing teacher education in practice. Scholars have therefore suggested to extend the amount of fieldwork. Still, research has shown that the fieldwork ...

The present paper looks at the issue of standardization in L2 oral testing. Whereas external examiners are frequently used globally, some countries opt for test-takers’ own teachers as examiners instead. In the present ...

Nasjonale prøver i nåværende form, hvor Item Response Theory (IRT) benyttes for å bestemme oppgavenes egenskaper og hvor man måler utvikling over tid, har vært gjennomført siden 2014. Prøvene har vist seg å være stabile ...

This article reports from a study of interrater reliability of constructed response items in standardized tests of reading. Two panels of raters (lower secondary teachers and test developers) were asked to rate student ...

Since publication of the first PISA results in 2001, the PISA scores have become a kind of global “gold standard” for educational quality. Climbing on the international PISA rankings have become a high priority for national ...

How do students who succeed with their studies go about studying? What characterizes good teaching that promotes appropriate ways to study? This article highlights these issues by describing and comparing contributions ...

Over the past 15 years, the assessment of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is sponsored by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has become a strategically ...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is now an integrated and central element of modern life, and its rapid emergence is changing the execution and organization of work and learning. Digital technology is also ...

Students deal with large amounts of digital information each day, which, clearly, they need to be able to evaluate. Teachers can play pivotal roles in fostering students' evaluation of digital information. Here, using ...

I artikkelen gis en litteraturreview av forskningsartikler publisert i Journal of Transformative Education. Reviewens analytiske formål er å utvikle innsikt om hvordan transformativ læring innrammes og hvilken kunnskap som ...

I 2014 ble andre generasjon av de statlige kartleggingsprøvene i regning tatt i bruk på 1.–3. trinn i småskolen i Norge. Disse prøvene skal brukes til å identi-fisere elever som kan ha behov for ekstra oppfølging, og skal ...

This study offers curriculum developers, teachers and science education researchers a fine-grained profile on strengths and weaknesses in specific science domains and topics. The study involved a representative sample of ...

I dette kapitlet undersøker vi sammenhengene mellom læreres kvalitet, deres undervisningskvalitet samt -kvantitet og elevers prestasjoner i naturfag på 5. trinn. TIMSS 2015-rapporten undersøkte en del av disse relasjonene ...

The traditional exam has a strong holding within Norwegian higher education and is very often the preferred way of assessing students. Digital technology opens up for alternatives to the traditional exam, but so far focus ...

I Norge går alle barn født det samme året på samme klassetrinn, med veldig få unntak. Dette betyr at forskjell i alder kan være bortimot tolv måneder på det samme trinnet. I idrett og utdanning viser eksisterende litteratur ...

Cette étude examine le rapport entre connaissances explicites de grammaire et usage de ces connaissances dans la production écrite libre chez 40 lycéens norvégiens apprenants du français L3. Les questions de recherche ...

I de siste årene har nasjonale utdanningsmyndigheter initiert flere skole-utviklingsreformer. En av disse reformene er «Ungdomstrinn i utvikling»: en nasjonal satsing med tilbud om støtte til lokalt utviklingsarbeid i ...

State school inspection in Norway is currently changing with targeted schools becoming subject to more complex methods of inquiry. Not only school principals but middle leaders are exposed to this shifting system, for the ...

This article explores the methodological approaches offered in grammar exercises in a selection of French as a foreign language textbooks produced for the Scandinavian market. It investigates the extent to which developments ...

Skal religionsundervisningen ta hensyn til elevenes personlige livssyn og verdier? Eller skal undervisningen avgrense seg til rent faglig kunnskap og refleksjon? Spørsmålet om religionsundervisningen skal ta hensyn til ...

The aim of this dissertation was to describe and analyze collective knowledge advancement (CKA) as a pedagogical practice in teacher education. The background is that Internet permits new types of authentic knowledge ...

This article presents a qualitative study focusing school science in two vocational classes, upper secondary school, Norway. The fact that many vocational students find little meaning in school science forms the backdrop. ...

Being able to engage with science representations, such as graphs, drawings, animations, gestures and written and verbal texts lies at the heart of scientific literacy. This article introduces the design-based research ...

The program of TSG 46 focused on three themes: 1. Conceptualization and theorization of knowledge in/for teaching mathematics at the secondary level. 2. Methods for measuring, assessing, evaluating and comparing knowledge ...

This introductory article attempts to set a conceptual stage for the special issue on identities of school leaders. We do this by beginning with a discussion of identity – its definition, philosophical roots, nature, and ...

The 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education in Hamburg was not only a scientific experience for researchers in mathematics education from all over the world. As Convenor and Local Chair of ICME-13, we are ...

Especially in the case of longitudinal evaluations, mixed-methodological approaches appear to be useful, since the studies are basically suitable for evaluating evaluation objects of a high degree of complexity, such as, ...

I dette kapitlet analyserer jeg tekster som 16-17 år gamle elever i norsk videregående skole har skrevet i etterkant av et samfunnsfagprosjekt om bærekraftig utvikling. Tekstene er analysert med tanke på hva slags forståelser ...

The act of newly qualified teachers leaving the profession is a growing challenge, both in Norway and internationally. To address recruitment difficulties, there is a need for further knowledge of prospective teachers’ ...