The overall aim of this thesis is to explore challenges and opportunities with teaching and learning through scientific practices in the laboratory in biology education. This thesis is based on three articles that are ...

This thesis comprises three articles and is situated in the field of cross-national observation research on instructional quality in mathematics education. It investigates patterns of instructional quality in lower secondary ...

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 ...

Denne rapporten presenterer en analyse av sensorreliabilitet ut ifra de foreløpige karakterene på skriftlig eksamen i videregående opplæring. Analysene er basert på karakterforslagene fra de to sensorene som foretok ekstern ...

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 ...

This article comprises a scoping review of partnerships as third spaces for professional practice (2010–2019). The purpose of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview of relevant research regarding the emergence ...

This paper reviews and analyzes the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research’s Action Plan for Digitalization in Primary and Secondary Education and Training (AP20). Policy papers are often intended for administrative ...

Lesing som grunnleggende ferdighet har vært sentralt i Kunnskapsløftet (K06), og det har vært stor satsing på å øke læreres lesedidaktiske kompetanse de siste tiårene. Det overordnede målet for denne avhandlingen er å ...

Abstract Causal relationships are traditionally examined in quantitative research. However, this article informs the discussion surrounding the potential use of qualitative data to explore causal relationships qualitatively ...

This article aimed to investigate how student podcasts, under specific circumstances, can constitute a novel and potentially powerful format for student agency. We examined a specific teacher education programme in which ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced an unprecedented global shutdown that closed schools for months. In many nations, schools were closed to students, and teachers directed educational activities remotely via digital devices or ...

Over the last decade, the lack of qualified teachers in schools has been the subject of both research and political debate in many countries. In this study, we have investigated the factors that predict beginning teachers’ ...

This article-based thesis is a linguistic ethnography of the use and positioning of students’ multilingual resources in secondary-level English writing instruction in Norway. The study spans 4 different instructional ...

Dark matter is one of the most intriguing scientific mysteries of our time and offers exciting instructional opportunities for physics education in high schools. The topic is likely to engage and motivate students in the ...

In this chapter, we report on questions in the TALIS 2018 survey concerning information and communication technology (ICT). Teachers were asked how they use digital technology for student activities, how prepared they are ...

Schools today face the challenge of preparing students to live, work, and prosper in a rapidly changing world. As a response to this global challenge, Norway has adopted a national curriculum focusing on the development ...

This thesis investigates grammar feedback in English writing teacher education. It uses a qualitative multimethod design, drawing on a single-case study of a lecturer’s written corrective feedback and subsequent writing ...

STEM partnerships are popular initiatives but can be challenging to implement in practice. Accordingly, within the context of a nationwide, cross-setting STEM partnership program in Norway – Lektor2 – a co-design tool was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...


 
 
 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The aim of this article is to understand biology teachers’ challenges with laboratory work in the light of tensions between the different cultures, or discourses, in biology teacher education. The data material in this ...

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Norskfaget har et hovedansvar for å gi barn og unge meningsfylte møter med skjønnlitteratur. Men hvilken litteratur leses egentlig i norsktimene? I denne artikkelen utforsker vi hvilke skjønnlitterære tekster som blir lest ...

This chapter investigates how a national-level assessment initiative may improve equity in early years numeracy education, taking the Norwegian mapping tests for primary grades 1–3 as an example. Three assessments, one ...

PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) is one of two large scale international comparative projects of student assessment that now exert considerable influence upon schoolscience education policy, the other ...

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 ...

This article presents a study of how teenage immigrant students, newly arrived in Norway, constructed themselves discursively through a number of identity texts. Drawing on theories from New Literacy Studies, Critical ...

I PISA 2015 undersøkes elevers ferdigheter i problemløsing ved samarbeid. Problemløsing ved samarbeid er en innovativ del av PISA-undersøkelsen og kommer i tillegg til lesing, matematikk og naturfag. Den innovative delen ...

Sweden has a reputation for its equality work, but at the same time mathematics is still considered a male domain. We studied grade nine students’ attitudes about who could be considered best in mathematics, both from an ...

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 ...

Although the use of digital technologies in teacher education has reached advanced stages in the developed world, it is still in its infancy in many developing countries, including Uganda. In their struggle to advance the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Zusammenfassung Die Verbreitung von Mixed-Methods-Studien in der Mathematikdidaktik wirft die Frage nach disziplinspezifischen Voraussetzungen und Qualitätskriterien auf. Derartige Studien sollten daher nicht nur ...

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 ...

Since the 1980s the United Nations has called for a sustainable development, responding to the challenges of ecological crisis, global warming, and continuous social inequity. Within the sustainable development agenda ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even though equity is an important aim for the Nordic countries, for many of these countries, the effect of a student’s home background on their achievement seems to increase over time. If the aim is to reduce the effect ...

Virtual reality applications turn abstract concepts into experienceable phenomena and present exciting opportunities to transform science education and public outreach practices. While research has started to look into the ...

This paper discusses the use of video data in reading research and describes potential directions and application of video data in this area of scholarship. The chapter describes existing literature and trends in video ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the mid 1990s, the OECD started the planning of the Program for International Student Assessment, now well known as PISA. 1 The first PISA testing took place early in 2000, and the results were published in December ...