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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

This paper provides an analysis of the implementation of a blended learning approach in a newly revised part-time teacher education program at the University of Oslo, Norway. A digital learning platform was implemented in ...

Formålet med denne studien var å undersøke elevers opplevde nytte av norsklærerens tilbakemeldingspraksis i skriftlig norsk. På bakgrunn av omfattende internasjonal forskning innen feltet ‘Vurdering for læring’ (VfL) er ...

Vurdering for læring (VfL) er et stadig voksende forskningsfelt, og det har hatt betydelig innflytelse på norsk utdanningspolitikk gjennom både lovendringer og større satsinger der det er investert mye i undervisningsressurser, ...

In this paper, using gender as the topic in focus, we argue that transferring items and surveys from one cultural context to another might be highly problematic. For instance, in the Nordic context, gender issues are ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Pädagogisches und fachdidaktisches Wissen gelten als zentrale kognitive Elemente professioneller Kompetenz von Lehrkräften. Der Erwerb entsprechenden Wissens soll daher möglichst schon im Lehramtsstudium erfolgen. Wie ...

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 ...

Denne artikkelen setter søkelyset på flerspråklige lærere i danske og norske skoler. Artikkelens empiriske materiale og teoretiske og analytiske fundament hentes fra doktoravhandlingene våre (Daugaard, 2015; Dewilde, 2013), ...

This article explores an international week in a Norwegian primary school from the perspective of the different participants. Such international weeks are typically organized in connection with the United Nations Day, to ...

This chapter is about sixteen-year-old Bahar (pseudonym) who grew up in Afghanistan and moved with her family to Norway at the beginning of her teens. Bahar is transnational in the sense that she has “moved bodily across ...

In recent years, governing regimes in education that emphasize ‘data’ and ‘evidence’ as a basis for decision making, performance management and accountability have been introduced in several countries, including the Nordic ...

Currently, the issue of inequality is one of the most pressing concerns in education and educational research. Factor such as increased socio-economic inequality, movement of people across national boundaries, and refugees, ...

This paper examines how teachers’ knowledge relations and the profession's epistemic infrastructure shape collective autonomy. Professionals' autonomy derives partially from their responsibility for a specific knowledge ...

The professional digital competence (PDC) of teachers is of growing importance in classrooms, now that digital resources and digital media are becoming important parts of teachers’ everyday practice. This study explores ...

From 2017 the Norwegian teacher education in primary and lower secondary school will be a five-year master education. UiT - The Norwegian Arctic University started a master education already in 2010. The main differences ...

Current debates on students' use of information and communication technology (ICT) have brought to attention profiles and purposes of ICT use in either school-related or recreational contexts. Examining these two contexts ...

Worldwide, teacher educators and policymakers call for teacher preparation that is more deeply linked to practice. Yet, we know little about how such linkages are achieved within different international programs. We examine ...

This article reports on the findings from a literature review of research on data use in education published in English, German and Scandinavian languages. The review is inspired by methods for systematic mapping. The ...

The provision for every pupil in schools of 1:1 digital devices such as tablets and laptops is claimed to offer a range of benefits, both practical and educational. Opinions are still divided as to whether the benefits for ...

The duration of on-campus academic engagements is an uncertain and highly debated indicator of study input. Researchers adopt this indicator with the expectation that student teachers must invest an amount of time and ...

De norske PISA-resultatene i 2015 viste en framgang i lesing for norske 15-åringere, men andelen elever på det laveste nivået var fortsatt uendret. Denne artikkelen studerer de norske elevene i denne kategorien når det ...

Studies have shown that school leaders are important in work with large-scale policy reforms in schools. However, the issue of how school leaders and teachers discuss and enact policy is under-studied. This article explores ...

Denne avhandlingens formål er å undersøke hvordan elever på ungdomstrinnet forstår og bruker skriftlige lærerkommentarer de får på tekster de skriver i norskfaget. Avhandlingen er artikkelbasert og består av tre artikler ...

This study examines teaching evaluation based on student feedback which is intended to contribute to teachers’ professional development. Although studies have highlighted that teaching evaluation is a potential source of ...

In school settings, self-control is central to the ability of learners to complete their academic work successfully. Learners’ self-control is directly influenced by the ways in which educators execute their work, including ...

Samarbeid mellom universitet/høgskole og skole om lærerutdanning har som ideell målsetting å utvikle studentenes lærerprofesjonalitet. En forutsetning for slik profesjonalitet er å kunne forholde seg til og bruke ulike ...

This longitudinal study examines connections between 110 teachers’ perceived professional competence acquired during professional preparation and later perceptions as schoolteachers in Norway. The results indicate that ...

Although teacher educators may perceive their program and courses to be coherent, the question remains to what extent student teachers also are able to perceive the linkages within their programs. Coherence within teacher ...

Developing students’ digital skills and self-confidence in their ability to purposefully use online learning opportunities is considered important for achieving educational objectives. This study empirically explores ...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the role of coding and observation manuals in classroom studies. While observation manuals have been a part of the methodological toolkit for measuring various aspects of instruction for ...

Despite its rich learning potential, outdoor science activities are challenging to integrate in classroom teaching. Therefore, this paper synthesizes theory, findings and experiences from 20 years of research – and development ...

Internasjonalt er det gjennomført en rekke studier som undersøker hvordan skolen, skoleledere, elever og skolesamfunnet for øvrig blir påvirket av ulike former for statlige styringsverktøy. I norsk sammenheng, som i andre ...

In light of a growing emphasis on student-centred learning approaches, feedback is viewed as an activity that has potential to facilitate higher education students’ explorations of knowledge contents and practices. However, ...

The implementation of mathematical competencies in school curricula requires assessment instruments to be aligned with this new view on mathematical mastery. However, there are concerns over whether existing assessments ...

Living in complex knowledge societies requires citizens who master multiple literacies involving both cognitive and social skills. Thus, all individuals should be offered relevant educational opportunities and teachers ...

The research question addressed in this paper is: How do the activities of writing mediate knowledge of writing, disciplinary knowledge, and professional knowledge as intertwined sites of learning? To conceptualise the ...

This article presents a qualitative study concerning student teachers’ understanding of differentiation for high-achieving secondary school students. Predominantly using focus group interviews of Norwegian student teachers ...

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. ...

Acta Didactica Norge ble etablert som fritt tilgjengelig tidsskrift for fagdidaktikk og lærerutdanning på nivå 1 i 2007 etter initiativ fra Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning ved Universitetet i Oslo. Det var ...

Repeated reading has been successfully used to enhance reading fluency in L1, but little is known about how (and to what extent) this strategy impacts reading in foreign language classrooms. Our paper reports the results ...

In this debate, in arguing for the position that ‘Research should not inform teaching.’ we present three lines of reasoning. First, we observe that despite many years of research, research has had very little impact on ...

In more and more countries, the goal of mathematics education is to develop students’ mathematical competence beyond procedural and conceptual knowledge. Thus, students need to engage in a rich variety of tasks comprising ...

In this paper, we investigate a new national collaborative Benchlearning program for principals in Norway and Sweden. The Benchlearning program, which has been offered to 40–50 principals in the two countries, is a ...

I artikkelen diskuteres hva som kjennetegner en profesjonell lærerutdanning. I internasjonal forskning om profesjonsutdanning, er forholdet mellom de tre aristoteliske kunnskapsformene episteme, techne og fronesis satt på ...

Both civil society in China and research on Chinese civil society have developed profoundly over the last three decades. Research on Chinese civil society can be classified into two categories: a structure-oriented approach ...

This article provides an analysis of the integration of assessment for learning principles in the newly revised five-year Master of Education programme at the University of Oslo, Norway, across didactic subjects, pedagogy ...

The present investigation aims to fill some of the gaps revealed in the literature regarding the limited access to more advanced and novel assessment instruments for measuring students' ICT literacy. In particular, this ...

The paper focuses on investigating the dropout phenomena and the need for its prevention and reduction within Serbian pre-university education. Understanding dropout as a multidimensional and system-level phenomenon, we ...

For å studere undervisningskvalitet vil det være en fordel å kombinere data fra et makro og meso- nivå med detaljerte studier av hva som skjer i klasserommet. Flere har etterlyst studier som ser på sammenhenger mellom ...

This study examines teachers’ instructional practices during seatwork in primary Norwegian Language arts classrooms. Although seatwork is a common activity in classrooms, our knowledge about what teachers actually do during ...

Discretion is described as a hallmark of professional work. Professional discretion rests on trust in the ability of certain occupational groups to make sound decisions ‘on behalf’ of societal authorities. It has been ...

This paper provides a basis for a tentative framework for guiding future research into principals' identity construction and development. It is situated in the context of persisting emphases placed by government policies ...

Students' perceptions of instructional quality are among the most important criteria for evaluating teaching effectiveness. The present study evaluates different latent variable modeling approaches (confirmatory factor ...

Instructional quality is considered to be an important classroom variable, as it is significantly related to student achievement and motivation in mathematics. Existing studies in educational effectiveness furthermore ...

I denne rapporten presenterer vi resultater fra PISA 2015. Undersøkelsen er utført ved Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning ved Universitetet i Oslo, på oppdrag fra Utdanningsdirektoratet. I PISA-undersøkelsen ...

Teachers’ integration of information and communication technology (ICT) has been widely studied, given that digital competence is considered to be a crucial outcome of twenty first century education. In this context, ...

Prosesskvalitet handler om kvaliteten på læringsprosessen, og er det aspektet ved utdanningskvalitet som er av størst betydning for studentenes læring. Imidlertid er det mangel på etablerte indikatorer for prosesskvalitet. ...

I artikkelen argumenteres det for at studenter i norsk høyere utdanning aktivt må forberedes for et arbeidsliv hvor de vil trenge det som kalles en dobbel kompetanse, dvs. en akademisk grad i kombinasjon med avanserte, ...

Denne artikkelen utforsker hvilke forståelser av skjønnlitteratur og sakprosa elever kan utvikle gjennom oppgavene i lærebøker i norsk. Dette blir undersøkt gjennom en kvalitativ innholdsanalyse av 1943 oppgaver fra tre ...

To stimulate individualised learning and give students some autonomy and responsibility in relation to their own schoolwork, Norwegian teachers often use work plans as an instructional tool. A work plan is a document that ...

Når elever skriver tekster i norskfaget, får de ofte skriftlige tilbakemeldinger fra norsklærer. Responsforskning viser at elevene i stor grad leser og verdsetter slike tilbakemeldinger, men at noen typer tilbakemeldinger ...

I internasjonal forskning ser vi en økende interesse for den aristoteliske kunnskapsformen fronesis, praktisk klokskap, når det gjelder utvikling av profesjonalitet i ulike utdanningskontekster. I artikkelen blir fronesis ...

Denne avhandlinga har sidemålsopplæring på nynorsk i vidaregåande trinn som emne og høyrer til under fagfeltet norskdidaktikk. Monografien undersøker og dokumenter korleis nynorsk som bruksspråk kan fungere som innfallsvinkel ...

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) er en internasjonal studie i matematikk og naturfag for grunnskolen, som fra og med 1995 har blitt gjennomført hvert fjerde år. Norge har deltatt hver gang ...

Undervisningskvalitet måles og analyseres i dette kapitlet gjennom de fire dimensjonene 1) god klasseromsledelse, 2) støttende lærer, 3) tydelige intensjoner og 4) faglige/kognitive utfordringer. Data hentes fra ...

Research literature shows that Roma children’s literacy skills are less developed compared with their non-Roma peers. This situation represents a major deterrent in integration of Roma within the majority of countries of ...

In this contribution, we employ an ecological approach as a resourceful means of revisiting the notion of learning in the knowledge society in general and in higher education in particular. Learning is re-conceptualised ...

Artikkelen analyserer revidert studieplan for profesjonsstudiet i medisin ved Universitetet i Tromsø, Norges arktiske universitet. Vi spør i hvilken grad og på hvilken måte den nye studieplanen ivaretar profesjonalitet. ...

The present study examines English use and needs in Norwegian government ministries and how these are reflected in ministerial job advertisements. It builds on a survey of 846 ministerial staff by Hellekjær (2010), and a ...

This study investigated teacher cognition and behavior in a high-stakes, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) school context where no common rating scale exists. 24 EFL teachers at the upper secondary level in Norway were ...

This thesis investigates practices of how teachers teach and readers read involved in developing reading comprehension in English in Norwegian upper secondary school. It is an article-based thesis comprising three articles ...

ProTed utvikler integrerte studiedesign som ivaretar lærerstudentenes profesjonslæring i lærerutdanningen. I dette kapitlet viser vi hvordan man kan jobbe med integrasjon innad i et fag, ved å presentere arbeidet med en ...

This paper reports on a case study of the teacher's role as facilitator in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) settings in science. In naturalistic classroom settings, the teacher most often acts as an important ...

This article provides an introduction to what it means to adopt a view of literacy as social practice for science education. This view of literacy builds on the idea that reading and writing are best regarded as situated ...

Denne artikkelen handler om hvordan elever på ungdomstrinnet forstår og bruker skriftlige lærerkommentarer på heldagsprøvebesvarelser i norsk. Slike kommentarer gis ofte på sluttprodukter. I vurderingsforskning antas ...

There is growing research interest in school inspection throughout Europe; however, there have been few comparative studies between Swedish and Norwegian school inspectorates. Such a study is necessary since little is known ...

This study examines the effects of schools’ implementation of a new system for testing on student reading. Data on seven Norwegian primary schools were obtained through participant journals and interviews conducted throughout ...

This study investigates school leadership in innovative work in the context of school development processes in Norway. The aim of the study is to develop new insight into the complexities involved and the functions of ...