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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Lesing av skjønnlitteratur er en sentral del av norskfaget. Med innføringen av K06 ble listene over verk og forfatterskap fjernet fra norskplanen, og valg av tekster ble med dette opp til den enkelte lærer – et prinsipp ...

Under ASLA-symposiet hölls för första gången ett panelsamtal om forskningsbehov i språkämnena där lärare, språkforskare och gymnasieelever deltog. I detta kapitel situerar vi idén med panelsamtalet i studier av lärares ...

Considerable research has demonstrated that teachers’ self-efficacy plays a major role in implementing instructional practices. Only few studies, however, have examined the interplay between how teachers’ self-efficacy and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contrary to the opinion that formative and summative assessment approaches are not compatible, this article presents a theoretically grounded way in which different forms of assessment can be combined and integrated in ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...