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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
In educational contexts, it is assumed that mathematical competence can be viewed as a trait. However, studies have yet to examine whether mathematical competence is actually a stable personality characteristic or rather ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Professional competences of teachers for fostering creativity and supporting high-achieving students
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2016)
This paper addresses an important task teachers face in class: the identification and support of creative and high-achieving students. In particular, we examine whether primary teachers (1) have acquired professional ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Objective The 12-item Partners in Health scale (PIH) was developed in Australia to measure self-management behaviour and knowledge in patients with chronic diseases, and has undergone several changes. Our aim was to assess ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Intelligence and complex problem solving (CPS) are two strongly overlapping constructs. In contrast to conventional intelligence tests, CPS-assessments provide process data concerning the interactions between the problem ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This study examined the level, structure and cognitive, educational and psychological determinants of beliefs about the relevance and nature of mathematics, about gender-stereotypes with respect to mathematics abilities ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Untersucht wird, inwieweit Unterrichtsvideos für den Erwerb situationsspezifischer Fähigkeiten im Bereich der Klassenführung sowie für den Zuwachs an pädagogischem Wissen bei Lehramtsstudierenden lernwirksamer sind als ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Im Unterschied zur Lehrerforschung ist über das professionelle Wissen frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte kaum etwas bekannt. Der Beitrag stellt eine Testbatterie vor, die auf die Diagnose unterschiedlicher Ausprägungen des ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
In this paper, the state of research on the assessment of competencies in higher education is reviewed. Fundamental conceptual and methodological issues are clarified by showing that current controversies are built on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
To answer the calls for stronger evidence by the policy community, educational researchers and their associated organizations increasingly demand more studies that can yield causal inferences. International large scale ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The goal of this study was to investigate sources of evidence of convergent validity supporting the construct interpretation of scores on a simulation-based information and communication technology (ICT) skills test. The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Technology acceptance has been widely discussed and examined in educational contexts. Despite the variety of models and measures describing teachers' technology acceptance, two key assumptions persist in the existing body ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Personal characteristics such as test anxiety or test-taking motivation might weaken the validity of results that are obtained in proficiency tests for school (self-) evaluation. Person fit statistics make it possible to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article examines the stability of Norwegian prospective preschool teachers’ enjoyment of mathematics and their mathematics-related self-efficacy before, during, and after a teacher-education examination. In addition, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
When children first enter school, they face simultaneous changes in their physical settings, social relationships, and learning expectations. The present study adds to the limited literature on children’s transitions from ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Studies suggest that affluence poses a risk for adolescents, but this has rarely been studied outside the United States. We examined the unique and additive roles of family and school affluence for adolescent outcomes among ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Literature on school leadership is relatively scarce in terms of measurement and international comparisons, but fairly straightforward in terms of the importance of school leadership for the improvement of student learning. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This study investigated regional and gender differences in academic achievement in Ethiopia, and examined whether these differences can be explained in terms of unequal educational opportunities (EO). Educational opportunity ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Collaborative problem solving (ColPS) skills are considered crucial to succeed in work, education, and life in a knowledge-rich society. Nevertheless, research on the assessment of ColPS is at its initial stage; specifically, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This study aims at evaluating the psychometric properties of the antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) criteria in a large sample of patients, most of whom had one or more personality disorders (PD). PD diagnoses were ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Background: Previous studies have found significant associations between maternal prenatal and postpartum depression and child behavior problems (CBP). The present study investigates whether associations remain in a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Many adolescents feel confident about using information and communication technology (ICT) and believe that it can help them to learn and achieve. However, recent research also shows that some adolescents are reporting ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Argumentation is considered crucial in numerous disciplines in schools and universities because it constitutes an important proficiency in peoples' daily and professional lives. However, it is unclear whether argumentation ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
This doctoral thesis scrutinizes the content dimension of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) to explore: “What content-specific profiles can we obtain about the students’ strengths and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article provides an overview of the R package lsasim, designed to facilitate the generation of data that mimics a large scale assessment context. The package features functions for simulating achievement data according ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Literature reviews have concluded that extensive time in early child care is associated with frequent externalizing behavior problems in children. In this article, we address three domains of validity in the work underlying ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Background
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is widely used as an outcome measure in the evaluation of treatment interventions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In order ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This study investigated an adaptation of the Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) measure of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills into a European context for the Norwegian language, which has a more transparent ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
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, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Research on educational effectiveness most often uses student assessments of classroom instruction for measuring aspects of teaching quality. Given that crucial inferences on the success of education are based on these ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Despite the frequent use of state-of-the-art psychometric models in the field of medical education, there is a growing body of literature that questions their usefulness in the assessment of medical competence. Essentially, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
The Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework – a framework which proposes a set of knowledge domains that are essential for effective teaching with technology – has gained considerable attention ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Purpose: Examining item usage is an important step in evaluating the performance of a computerized adaptive test (CAT). We study item usage for a newly developed multidimensional CAT which draws items from three PROMIS ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background
Complex problem-solving competence is regarded as a key construct in science education. But due to the necessity of using interactive and intransparent assessment procedures, appropriate measures ...
The Relations Among School Climate, Instructional Quality, and Achievement Motivation in Mathematics
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Written exams in higher education are highly relevant for students, because success in their studies and access to the labour market depend on the exam results. But typical written exams do not do justice to this high ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The paper presents the challenges of cross-country and cross-cultural research on the motivation to become a mathematics teacher based on data from the “Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M)”. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Background
On the basis of a ‘problem solving as an educational outcome’ point of view, we analyse the contribution of math and science competence to analytical problem-solving competence and link the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The relation between teacher knowledge and skills and how these were influenced by teacher education was examined with 171 secondary mathematics teachers. Six paper-and-pencil and video tests were applied to assess content ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Beginning primary teachers’ knowledge and beliefs were assessed at the end of teacher education and 4 years later. In addition, they reported about their school context and job satisfaction and took a video-based assessment ...
Process mediates structure: Relation of preschool teacher education to preschool teachers’ knowledge
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Data about processes and outcomes of preschool teacher education is scarce. This paper examines the opportunities to learn (OTL) of prospective preschool teachers (N = 1,851) at different types and stages of preschool ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
In the current paper, we employ the most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data to calculate a less-biased estimate of poverty on US achievement. The PISA was specifically chosen as it is an ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Objective: The aim of the current paper was to investigate the association between the patterns of duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to low family income during childhood, and symptoms of mental health problems ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This study aims to identify profiles of pre-service teachers in order to explore their readiness to integrate technology in education. The assumption is that pre-service teacher characteristics such as technological ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In this article I advocate for a new discussion in the field of international large-scale assessments; one that calls for a reexamination of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) and their use. Expanding on the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Background: Progress testing is a longitudinal assessment that aims at tracking students' development of knowledge. This approach is used in many medical schools internationally. Although progress tests are longitudinal ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
We provide a tutorial on differential item functioning (DIF) analysis, an analytic method useful for identifying potentially biased items in assessments. After explaining a number of methodological approaches, we test for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The analysis of longitudinal neuroimaging data within the massively univariate framework provides the opportunity to study empirical questions about neurodevelopment. Missing outcome data are an all-to-common feature of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion, 2017)
This three-year longitudinal study examines which teacher and school characteristics contribute to teachers’ commitment to stay in the profession. 3,000 beginning teachers from Germany, Taiwan and the USA were assessed at ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The depth of medical students’ knowledge of human anatomy is often controversially discussed. In particular, members of surgical disciplines raise concerns regarding deficits in the factual anatomical and topographical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
I denne longitudinelle studien ble 131 grunnskolelærere (1. til 4. trinn) fulgt opp fra det siste året i lærerutdanningen og gjennom de fire første årene i lærerjobb. Lærerne tok standardiserte tester i matematikk ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Background
Fair comparisons of educational systems in large-scale assessments can be made only if the differences in curricula have little impact on the outcomes. This study investigated the sensitivity ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Students are exposed to vast amounts of information and knowledge that is rapidly changing. This exposure requires them to be adaptive, that is, to constantly adjust their thinking, behavior, and even their affect to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The ability to offer constructive feedback to students concerning their errors is an indispensable requirement for mathematics teachers, for the purpose of providing cognitively challenging learning opportunities. However, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
How teacher characteristics are related to student outcomes may indicate ways to improve the effectiveness of schooling. This paper examines how consistent such relations are by utilizing TIMSS data on five teacher ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Previous studies of fetal death with maternal influenza have been inconsistent. We explored the effect of maternal influenza-like illness (ILI) in pregnancy on the risk of fetal death, distinguishing between diagnoses ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The aim of the research described in this paper was to identify qualitatively different profiles of teachers’ general pedagogical knowledge (GPK) as a central component of their competence. We applied a mixed Rasch model ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Accurate item calibration in models of item response theory (IRT) requires rather large samples. For instance, [Formula: see text] respondents are typically recommended for the two-parameter logistic (2PL) model. Hence, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The study presented in the paper has the following goals. The first is to review and compare teacher competence frameworks developed in Eastern (Chinese) and Western (German) contexts, exemplified for the domain of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Artikkelen presenterer de mest sentrale verktøyene for kvalitetsmonitorering som har blitt innført som en del av det «Nasjonale kvalitetsvurderingssystemet for grunnopplæringen» (de nasjonale prøvene, kartleggingsprøvene ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Although multidimensional adaptive testing (MAT) has been proven to be highly advantageous with regard to measurement efficiency when several highly correlated dimensions are measured, there are few operational assessments ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
In computerized adaptive testing (CAT), item parameter estimates are assumed to be known and valid for all the positions that items can be presented on in the test. This assumption is problematic since item parameter ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
A new response time-based method for coding omitted item responses in computer-based testing is introduced and illustrated with empirical data. The new method is derived from the theory of missing data problems of Rubin ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
The present paper aims to discuss how data from international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) can be utilized and combined, even with other existing data sources, in order to monitor educational outcomes and study the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Background: Maternal postpartum distress is often construed as a marker of vulnerability to poor parenting. Less is known, however, about the impact of postpartum distress on parenting an infant born prematurely. The present ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Hvilke roller har eksamen i norsk grunnopplæring? I Forskrift til opplæringslova framgår det blant annet at eksamenskarakteren skal fastsette kompetansen til eleven ved slutten av opplæringen i faget. Denne artikkelen viser ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Computer-based assessments open up new possibilities to measure constructs in authentic settings. They are especially promising to measure 21st century skills, as for instance information and communication technologies ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The estimation of high-dimensional latent regression item response theory (IRT) models is difficult because of the need to approximate integrals in the likelihood function. Proposed solutions in the literature include using ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Obwohl die Befähigung zu eigenständiger Forschung ein zentrales Ziel des Studiums ist, fehlt es in den Sozialwissenschaften an einem theoretischen Modell von Forschungskompetenz. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde ein fach- ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This meta-analysis maps the evidence on the effectiveness of instructional approaches and conditions for learning computer programming under three study conditions: (a) Studies focusing on the effectiveness of programming ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
We applied latent class analysis and the rule space model to verify the cumulative characteristic of conceptual change by developing a learning progression for buoyancy. For this study, we first abstracted seven attributes ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Previous studies of individual differences have revealed strong correlations between children's vocabulary and grammatical abilities, and these data have been used to support theoretical accounts positing direct developmental ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
To investigate the domain-specifi city of research competencies, higher education students from the social sciences were assessed with a standardized test in four disciplines: (a) sociology, (b) political science, (c) ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Previous studies has found that the youngest students perform more poorly, on average, than older peers in school. This phenomenon is known as the relative age effect (RAE). In Norway, the age difference within a grade ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
Background
The Faces Pain Scale-revised (FPS-r) has been developed as an interval scale. For other pain measurement instruments, several studies found evidence for and against an interval level of measurement.
Object ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The final version of this research has been published in Science Education. © 2017 Wiley
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Position effects (PE) cause decreasing probabilities of correct item responses towards the end of a test. We analysed PEs in science, mathematics and reading tests administered in the German extension to the PISA 2006 study ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Abstract There are multiple item characteristics, some unrelated to mathematics, that can have an impact on item difficulty. Research into the effect of item characteristics such as number of words and comparative language ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The item response theory (IRT) framework is commonly used for scoring and equating in high stakes tests to classify individuals into performance categories. However, IRT model misspecification such as assuming unidimensional ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
A large research gap exists between psychological research about intelligence on the one hand and educational research about competence on the other hand. Both constructs are only rarely examined within one study. From an ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Children develop their mathematical competencies already during their early years. Therefore, effective learning environments provided by early childhood teachers are required. Early childhood teachers’ professional ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Reporting the reliability of the scores obtained from a scale or test is part of the standard repertoire of empirical studies in psychology. With reliability being a key concept in psychometrics, researchers have become ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Structural equation modelling (SEM) has become one of the most prominent approaches to testing substantive theories about the relations among observed and/or unobserved variables. Applying this multivariate procedure, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
It is currently not entirely clear to what degree the research on multidimensional computerized adaptive testing (CAT) conducted in the field of educational testing can be generalized to fields such as health assessment, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Openness-Fluid-Crystallized-Intelligence (OFCI) model describes how these different constructs interact over time. One fundamental element in the model is the Environmental Enrichment Hypothesis, which states that more ...