This study examines work with an academic concept in a multicultural classroom where a microblogging tool was used to facilitate dialogues. The analysis of extracts from classroom talk shows how one teacher prompted students ...

We know from previous research that teacher questions can influence reading comprehension development; however, we know less about the reading processes that are required of students through the use of questions. The present ...

The concept of school climate has received much attention as a predictor of educational outcomes, including students’ well-being, academic achievement, and motivation. To measure this concept, international large-scale ...

Like muligheter til god leseforståelse? 20 år med lesing i PISA presenterer forskning basert på PISA-undersøkelsen 2018. Hovedresultatene fra undersøkelsen ble presentert i en kortrapport i desember 2019, og denne antologien ...

Across the world, teachers’ classroom assessment tasks and responsibilities are becoming more diverse due to increased migration. In this review, we address how migrant students are affected by assessment, both summative ...

This article investigates amounts and contexts of target language (TL) use by teachers and pupils in French-as-a-foreign-language classrooms in Norway, an educational context in which a communicative approach to language ...

In this article, we explore the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC) as a living, distributed bio-geography—that is, as the diversity of ways in which the lab exists today in and through research-practice work ...

The Nordic countries are known to have small differences between schools, and educational policies that promote equity. However, there are indications that in many Nordic countries, the influence of students’ socio-economic ...

Recent studies have demonstrated how teachers can draw on students' multilingual resources in teaching English writing, even in monolingually oriented policy settings. However, limited research has been conducted outside ...

Previous research has demonstrated the potential of examining log‐file data from computer‐based assessments to understand student interactions with complex inquiry tasks. Rather than solely providing information about what ...

The main aim of this two-step mixed-method study was to explore the effectiveness of the strategies used to prepare pre-service teachers for technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). Specifically, we focused on ...

Rooted in the sociocultural tradition, this article examines how one teacher helps her eighth-grade students build agency through dialogic teaching supported by technology. Students' agency is essential for their participation ...

Translation has recently been revived as an approach to language learning that builds on students’ linguistic repertoires, particularly in linguistically diverse classrooms. However, few studies have examined how students ...

The concept of school climate has received much attention as a predictor of educational outcomes, including students’ well-being, academic achievement, and motivation. To measure this concept, international large-scale ...

Sammendrag: Denne artikkelen drøfter aspekter ved perspektivtaking som kjerneelement og kompetansemål i de nye læreplanene i KRLE og Religion og etikk. Perspektivtaking sees i lys av læreplaner og religionsvitenskapelige ...

This paper analyses students’ conceptual sense-making of two representations of protein synthesis: animations and static visualizations. Even though several studies have focused on the effect of animations versus static ...

Increasingly, school leaders and teachers are being expected to use digital technologies to collect data to analyze, plan and organize teaching and learning. Such expectations can be traced to a number of policy initiatives ...

Third year geoscience students were introduced to digital tools for fieldwork, Fieldmove on iPads, in a capstone field mapping course at Oslo University, Norway. Despite little prior experience with digital tools for ...

Purpose: Few studies have examined student teachers’ perceptions of teaching materials on democracy. For the purpose of addressing how teacher education in social science might contribute to student teachers’ qualifications ...

For å styrke kvaliteten på praksisopplæringen i lærerutdanningen og fremme FoU-kompetansen i skolene, har Kunnskapsdepartementet (2017) løftet frem etablering av utvidede partnerskap mellom lærerutdanningsinstitusjoner, ...

Learner agency is a key factor in success with technology-infused Innovative Learning Environments (ILEs). Focussing on informal practices unrelated to the learning agenda (off-task practices) and considered undesirable ...

Translanguaging has gained prominence as a way to understand multilingual practices and draw on these in additional language teaching, but questions remain regarding its application in various educational contexts. This ...

Students struggle with observing scientifically and connecting observations to scientific theory. This study investigates how students actually use observation in rock classification – a classical practical task in science ...

Purpose: In this study, we explore students’ views and experiences in relation to education about, through, and forhuman rights, peace, and sustainability in the global north and south. We investigate what students after ...

This paper presents a survey of student perceptions of feedback in English writing in a context where formative assessment is mandatory. The study comprises 329 first year upper secondary school students from seven schools ...

This chapter examines Dickinson v. Mälardalen University as an empirical manifestation of state action for creating and maintaining world-class universities (WCUs). It advances the argument that while litigation has long ...

This study employs interviews and observations to investigate instructional rationales of two purposefully sampled teachers with divergent classroom discourse practices in Swedish-speaking Finnish lower secondary mathematics ...

Although previous research has contributed to the body of literature in education for democracy by addressing deficits in policies in equalizing students’ life chances, less attention has been paid to how accomplishing a ...


 
 
 The main objective of this study was to examine whether a Rater Identity Development (RID) program would increase interrater reliability and improve calibration of scores against benchmarks in the ...

Global mobility and economic and political crises in some parts of the world have fuelled migration and brought new constellations of ‘cultural diversity’ to European classrooms (OECD 2019). This produces new challenges ...

In this article, we explore how values in education are negotiated and partly redefined by teachers, school leaders and local administrators with data use and accountability. Two dilemmas are prominent for the teachers: ...

I dette kommentarkapitlet vurderes lesing i PISA 2018 opp mot den reviderte norsklæreplanen i LK20. Kapitlet gir en gjennomgang av hva lesing er og har vært i norskfaget, og hvilke forskningsinnsikter denne antologien kan ...

In this article, we explore how children and youth participating in a multicultural festival in Norway construct space and place. Such events respond to the call to action for reducing prejudice and stereotypes, and they ...

I dette kapitlet avklarer vi begrepet kritisk leseforståelse og undersøker hvordan elevenes evne til å lese kritisk måles i PISA 2018 og nasjonale leseprøver. Vi finner at flertallet av elevene verken foretar reelle ...

This article explores the postqualitative notion of “ethics of becoming” through a critique of common understandings of ethical approaches to research. By applying Deleuze's reading of Spinoza, the ethics of becoming are ...

Preparing young people for becoming responsible citizens is an important educational aim. The school subject of social studies contributes to this wider educational aim by focusing on knowledge, skills and values to support ...

The rapid emergence of information and communication technology (ICT) has had implications for the education system and initial teacher education (ITE) in particular. This study investigated the extent to which teacher ...

I dette kapitlet redegjør vi for begrepene metakognisjon og strategier og forklarer hvordan strategier er definert og måles i PISA-undersøkelsen. Vi presenterer norske elevers svar på spørsmål om strategier – og ser ...

PISA 2018 viser at de langsiktige trendene for norske leseresultater er stabile. I dette kapitlet ser vi norske elevers lesekompetanse i lys av nordiske og internasjonale trender. Vi finner at Norge er et av landene som ...

I dette kapitlet ser vi på sammenhengen mellom prestasjoner i lesing og bakgrunnsvariabler som sosioøkonomisk status, kjønn og om elevene har majoritets- eller minoritetsbakgrunn. Resultatene viser at det er en svakere ...

In this PhD thesis I study recontextualizations of environmental ethical values in moral education. The three considered values, claimed by United Nations within the Sustainable Development Agenda, are the concerns for ...

Drawing on 178 video-recorded lessons from 47 lower-secondary classrooms with high technological infrastructure in Norway, the present study sheds light on how and for what purposes teachers use technology in their everyday ...

Å trekke slutninger er nødvendig for å forstå tekster, både i skjønnlitteratur og i sakprosa. I dette kapitlet analyserer vi elevers svar på oppgaver i PISA 2018, og blant oppgavene som gir elevene de vanskeligste ...

PISA-undersøkelsen måler om 15-åringer har lesekompetansen som trengs for å delta i vårt tekstbaserte samfunn. I dette kapitlet gjør vi rede for hvordan lesekompetanse måles i PISA, og hva som er nytt i rammeverket for ...

Norske elevers lesevaner og holdninger til lesing har utviklet seg i negativ retning siden PISA 2000. Da svarte en tredel at de ikke leste i fritiden, mot halvparten av elevene i 2018. Elevene leser sjeldnere lange tekster, ...

Recent trends in language education have promoted the use of students’ linguistic repertoires in the classroom. However, research is lacking into how languages are actually used in target language instruction. This study ...

Dette kapitlet omhandler læreres undervisningspraksis, undervisningskvalitet og tekstaktiviteter i norskfaget. Mange studier har funnet sterk positiv sammenheng mellom tett oppfølging fra læreren, tydelig instruksjon og ...

Previous research has shown that adults from migrant backgrounds often have lower numeracy competence than do their majority counterparts, even though many were educated in their host country. Leaving secondary education ...

This qualitative study examines reading comprehension instruction and students’ metacognitive knowledge of reading in one L1 classroom at the lower secondary level. The data comprises four consecutive videotaped lessons ...

This paper examines emerging epistemologies in the wake of increased digitalization and the extent to which student teachers are prepared for such epistemologies in their teacher education (TE) programs. Alt-hough there ...

This chapter focuses on informal language learning in Sweden. Sweden has a long tradition of teaching foreign languages in school, but formal language learning is currently in many ways being “challenged” by informal ...

Artikkelen er en studie av hvordan elever i videregående skole reviderer tekst etter å ha fått skriftlige tilbakemeldinger fra norsklæreren. Å kunne revidere tekst er en viktig del av en godt utviklet skrivekompetanse, men ...

This study aims to investigate textbook tasks in the Norwegian school subject Natural sciences and the views of science that the tasks mediate to the pupils. Natural science is an interdisciplinary subject taught in Years ...

Research on the professional development of school leadership often highlights the value of partnerships across institutions. Increasingly, partnership has been labeled boundary work. However, few empirical studies have ...

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 ...

Grønne greier. Om natur og miljø og sånn (2018) av miljøjournalist Ole Mathismoen og illustratør Jenny Jordahl er en samling ensides tegneserier fra Aftenposten junior der karakterene Ole og Jenny samtaler om ulike temaer ...

The value of oral corrective feedback for the development of metalinguistic knowledge has been acknowledged in the research literature for decades. Yet, teachers in second language teacher education programmes still tend ...

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 ...

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, ...

The main purpose of a current Norwegian educational policy is to stimulate secondary learners’ basic skills. This study focuses on writing skills in schools’ content areas. Teachers’ collaborative activities across school ...

The purposes of this study are to examine the relation between playing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) games in the wild and L2 English vocabulary and to offer comparisons with non-gamers’ vocabulary. Data were collected ...

The aim of this study is to establish an in-depth understanding of how art and design teacher educators (TEs) develop digital competences in teacher training institutions in Uganda. The study utilizes perspectives from Jan ...

The study of gender differences in academic achievement has been one of the core topics in education, especially because it may uncover possible gaps and inequalities in certain domains. Whereas these differences have ...

This meta-analysis synthesized the relation between measures of socioeconomic status (SES) and students' information and communication technology (ICT) literacy—a skillset that has found its way in educational curricula. ...

The rapid technological advancements and the digitalization in almost all areas of our lives, including education, have turned the attention of researchers to the factors that explain a person's technology acceptance. This ...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to an understanding of the school strikes for climate, initiated in August 2018 by the Swedish student Greta Thunberg, soon to become a global social movement involving hundreds of ...

This edited volume presents 30 years of English didactics research (1988-2017) in Norway. As a collection of chapters, each representing a doctoral study, the book is a complete overview of all doctoral research within the ...

In this chapter, central ideas of Mixed Methods Research are presentedin which qualitative and quantitative research methods are combined or integrated.In addition to the explanation of common Mixed Methods terminology, ...

Frafall blant studenter som er i starten av studiet, er en stor utfordring for lærerutdanninger, og det er få norske studier som har undersøkt tiltak som kan imøtekomme frafallsproblematikk. Artikkelen belyser hvordan ...

Socio-political, environmental, cultural, and digital changes require literacies that will be crucial for facing complex challenges. This article contributes to a notion of digital literacies as agentic and transformative ...

During the past two decades, rhetoric has been included in the national curricula in all the Scandinavian countries. However, it is not unproblematic to take an academic discipline out of its historical context and integrate ...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is crucial for academic success; therefore support, to enhance and maintain SRL skills is important. In blended adult education, the heterogeneity of adults creates diversity in SRL abilities, ...

Fokuset i denne artikkelen er på veiledere for lærerstudenter og nyutdannede lærere. Formålet med artikkelen er å belyse hvilke forventninger som rettes mot veilederutdanningens påvirkning på utøvelse av veilederrollen ...

Unit of analysis is a methodological staple in the constitution of any learning theory, determining how different frameworks lead to different kinds of empirical observation. In this regard, emerging ecological—sociocultural ...

The aim of this study is to investigate the role of personal digital devices for negotiating assignments during collaborative work in school. Using video recordings of the peer-to-peer interactions in two math and Norwegian ...

The purpose of this research was to identify the barriers that upper-secondary school science and mathematics teachers face during the teaching process in economically disadvantaged regions (Hakkari, Turkey and Swansea, ...

This case study explores how teacher educators use digital technologies in teaching Art and Design (A&D) in a developing country. It uses semi-structured interviews and non-participant observations to gather qual-itative ...

In this article, I investigate poetry written by two young Muslim people during their spare time. Adopting Shahab Ahmed’s (2016) understanding of Islamic in its plenitude and complexity, I ask how Islamic their texts are. ...

Noen videregående skoler har prøvd ut en ordning med karakterfritt semester for at elever skal kunne ha sterkere fokus på forbedringsinnsats på basis av lærernes formative tilbakemeldinger og mindre fokus på prestasjonsmessig ...

Department heads are increasingly responsible for instructional leadership. Therefore, it is important to understand the antecedents of self-efficacy in their work, which can motivate them to increase their leadership ...

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 ...

Mentoring of pre-service teachers in their school practicum is vital to integrating different parts of the educational programmes and supporting the pre-service teachers to become educational professionals, but for mentors ...

Group coaching is emerging as an approach with a strong potential for developing leadership competencies. However, there is little research on its use in the professional training of school leaders. In this study, we ...

Research suggests that developing deep understanding of text requires sustained emphasis on reading comprehension instruction and scaffolded strategy practices. However, although research has shown explicit teaching of ...

High-quality classroom dialogues improve students’ capacities to learn school subjects and help them develop more general skills such as collaboration and critical thinking. In this chapter, we take a sociocultural stance ...

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is a key model describing teachers' intentions to use technology. This meta-analysis clarifies some of the contradictory findings surrounding the relations within the TAM for a sample ...

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 ...

This chapter explores the issue of agency as a central feature of makerspaces, and the challenges and opportunities that may emerge in that regard when such spaces are designed targeting young learners. Educational research ...