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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...


 
 
 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...