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(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This open access book is the first account of the whole diversity of teacher education in the Nordic region: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, the Åland Islands and Sápmi (where the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Mange evalueringer har vist, at lærerstuderende bruger beskeden tid på at studere. I denne undersøgelse undersøger vi indflydelsen fra udvalgte faktorer, som er relateret til lærerstuderendes studieintensitet, baseret på ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Artikkelen har som mål å synliggjøre og skape bevissthet omkring læreplanens vektlegging av bærekraftig utvikling for elever på yrkesfag. I Opplæringslova er det et uttalt mål om at elever og lærlinger skal handle etisk ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Teacher education comprises subject education, pedagogical studies and training in schools. This complexity is demanding for all teacher training institutions. The present study examines empirical relationships in teacher ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This study presents what reflections science teachers express when they shared experiences after trying out a new teaching method in science in an online synchronous professional learning community (PLC), and how they ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Studies have indicated that the learning results are closely related to how much effort a student puts into the course and how effectively the student works with the learning material. Adequate time-on-task is crucial for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Bakgrunn: Gode kunnskaper i anatomi, fysiologi og biokjemi (AFB) er nødvendig for at sykepleierstudenter skal kunne utvikle et klinisk blikk. Resultater fra nasjonal eksamen i AFB viser at mange sykepleierstudenter strever ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A way to facilitate schools in adapting to a changing society, is through teachers’ professional development in learning communities. This study followed a group of primary school teachers in a professional learning community ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract This article utilizes a framework for classifying different scientific methods suggested by a philosopher of science (Brandon Synthese , 99, 59–73, 1994) called Brandon’s Matrix. It presents findings from teachers ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Background
Accurate and precise measures of health literacy (HL) is supportive for health policy making, tailoring health service design, and ensuring equitable access to health services. According to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Low cost, non-invasive instruments for the identification of high academic potential in early childhood education and care are scarce, and the complexity of cognitive development indicates that combinations of screening ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The focus in this study is on the antecedents of Icelandic student teachers’ instructional self-efficacy in classroom management and ability to support learner engagement. We examine how student teachers’ instructional ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Competent mathematics teachers who have knowledge of gifted students’ needs can challenge them in math and prevent boredom and possible underachievement. This retrospective study explores how Norwegian gifted students ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Context-based science teaching aims to increase students’ motivation for science learning by demonstrating the personal and societal relevance of science knowledge and practices. However, designing and implementing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Developing students’ understanding of the nature of science (NOS) is seen as critical for educating scientifically literate citizens, and has emerged as an important curricular goal internationally. In Norway, a new ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Kritisk tenking er beskrevet som en avgjørende kompetanse elever må tilegne seg for å kunne bidra til et bærekraftig samfunn. I denne studien undersøker vi derfor koblingen mellom kritisk tenking (KT) og bærekraftig utvikling ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Understanding Nature of Science (NOS) is a requisite for improving scientific literacy, and as such, it is increasingly being included in science curricula worldwide. It is now therefore important that teachers understand ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Aim
The aim of this study was to explore bachelor-level nursing students’ experiences with concept cartoons as an active learning strategy and formative assessment to develop conceptual understanding in anatomy and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In this study, we introduce an analytic framework for effective professional development programmes (PDPs) that has been synthesised and derived from the literature. The framework acknowledges that certain design features ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Background
Teaching and learning of nature of science (NOS) is an explicit goal in the core science curriculum in Norway. Yet there is little understanding of how the content of the current textbooks in certain educational ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Kritisk tenking (KT) er beskrevet internasjonalt som en sentral kompetanse elever må tilegne seg og det er også inkludert i den norske læreplanen. Forskere fra ulike fagtradisjoner definerer KT noe ulikt, men de er enige ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
If students are to acquire deep learning in science, they need to know about the nature of science (NOS), particularly not only the cognitive-epistemic but also the social-institutional aspects of NOS. In this paper, we ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Scientific practices are introduced in curricula around the world, replacing the more general concept of inquiry. There are many different definitions of scientific practices, and the purpose of this article is to contribute ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Dette kapitlet retter et kritisk, men konstruktivt blikk på naturfag, og foretar en gjennomgang av naturfag og naturfagdidaktikk innen forskning og i praksis. Kapitlet starter med å beskrive og diskutere naturfagets ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The purpose of this study was to explore antecedents of Finnish and Norwegian student teachers’ prospective commitment to work as teachers or pursue other careers. Are student teachers’ perceptions of coherence between the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Research indicates that prospective commitment to a vocation is important to sustaining good professional practices. The purpose of the study was to explore, among Icelandic student teachers, how student teacher experiences ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Background: The paper discusses how the design of summative assessments of practical science can be enhanced through the use of robust theoretical models that capture the diversity of scientific methods. The developments ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Teacher education for primary and lower secondary school has received harsh criticism in many countries, also in Denmark. Teacher education programmes experience high dropout rates and has low appeal to potential students. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The purpose of this paper is to accentuate teachers’ voice and examine what teachers consider as useful professional development for promoting 21st century skills as presented in educational reforms. The teachers participated ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
I Norge har naturfagprestasjoner på ungdomstrinnet i lang tid ligget under de andre nordiske landene, og de falt i tillegg med 13 poeng fra 2015 til 2019, noe som tilsvarer omtrent et halvt års skolegang. Derfor handler ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This paper describes the development of two nomination scales designed to measure parents’ and teachers’ perceptions of high academic potential among young children, and how the scores correlate with assessed high potential. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Sufficient self-efficacy is useful for prospective teachers to put themselves on the track of continued efforts to improve their teaching skills. This study explored the strength of statistical associations between 1438 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Education for sustainable development (ESD) provides crucial opportunities for young people to be involved in complex sustainability issues. This study contributes to existing knowledge about primary school teachers’ ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Typical preservice teachers will experience a number of demanding teaching situations during their school-based teaching practice. In such situations, peer support from fellow students may be an important factor. A ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Background
To reflect the health literacy (HL) skills needed for managing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in everyday life, HL in people with T2DM should be measured from a broader perspective than basic skills, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Understanding the nature of science (NOS) has emerged as a core curricular goal since at least the 1960s. While science education reforms around the world have shed light on various epistemic and social underpinnings of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article reports from a 1,5 yearlong co-design process where mainly one researcher and four science centre educators collaboratively designed a controversy-based educational programme for upper secondary school in a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The aim of the current study was to examine the associations among perceived teacher emotional support, reader self-concept, and reading achievement in a sample of children (n = 2888) at the end of first grade. Structural ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Objectives: Scientific literacy is assumed necessary for appraising the reliability of health claims. Using a national science achievement test, we explored whether students located at the lower quartile on the latent trait ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The curriculum in school science for vocational students has three different purposes: 1) prepare the students for later participation in society and coping with everyday life; 2) qualify the students for further studies; ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Background
Over the recent past, there has been an increase in nutrition information available to adolescents from various sources, which resulted into confusion and misinterpretation of the dietary advice. ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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 ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Background and Purpose: The functional, communicative, and critical health literacy (FCCHL) scale is widely used for assessing health literacy (HL) in people with chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Despite ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Despite an increased focus on education for sustainable development (ESD), many teachers still report insecurity in how to implement ESD in their practice. This study examined teachers’ reflections from using the local ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Background
The European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) is widely used in assessing health literacy (HL). There has been some controversy whether the comprehensive HLS-EU-Q47 data, reflecting ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Objectives: To describe the development of the Claim Evaluation Tools, a set of flexible items to measure people's ability to assess claims about treatment effects.
Setting: Methodologists and members of the community ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Background: The Claim Evaluation Tools database contains multiple-choice items for measuring people’s ability to apply the key concepts they need to know to be able to assess treatment claims. We assessed items from the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Background and Objective: Adolescents are frequent media users who access health claims from various sources. The plethora of conflicting, pseudo-scientific, and often misleading health claims in popular media makes critical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
The dioxin and dioxin-like compounds are regarded as one of the most toxic group of environmental contaminants. Food for the commercial market is regularly monitored for their dioxin levels and the concentration allowed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Objective The present study validates a revised scale measuring individuals’ level of the ‘engagement in dietary behaviour’ aspect of ‘critical nutrition literacy’ and describes how background factors affect this aspect ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2015)
Aims and objectives The aim of this paper is to describe how selected demographic characteristics ‘explain’ the observed variance in the distribution of maternal health literacy estimates in adolescents attending antenatal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2015)
Background and Purpose: The purpose of this article is to test the requirement of “local independence” in the newly developed “Maternal Health Literacy” (MaHeLi) composite scale measuring health literacy in pregnant ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
A number of evaluations have shown that Norwegian student teachers spend little time studying on their course. In this study, we investigate the influence of selected antecedents of student teachers' time-on-task, based ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
A typical preservice teacher will experience demanding teaching situations during practicum. In such situations, interpersonal support from fellow students may be an important factor if experiences gained during teaching ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
This paper reports on student peer collaboration in an online environment in an international shared curriculum, the Global Climate Exchange. Four cohorts of students (age 16 -19) from Canada, China, Norway and Sweden ...