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(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 / 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 / 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 / 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, 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 / 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 ...
(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, 2018)
While most early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs taken to scale in the United States have served socially disadvantaged 3- to 5-years-olds, Norway scaled up universal ECEC from age 1. We investigated the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
There is an increasing emphasis on the importance of social competence for children's development, well-being, and learning. Thus age- and context-appropriate measures are needed. This study addresses the structural validity ...