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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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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, 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 ...
(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, 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 / 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)
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 / 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 / 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 ...
(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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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, 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 / 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, 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 ...
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, 2015)
(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, 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
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 ...
(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 / 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 ...
(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 / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
(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 ...
(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, ...
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 / 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 ...
(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 / 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, 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)
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 / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In psychology, mixed-effects models and latent-curve models are both widely used to explore growth over time. Despite this widespread popularity, some confusion remains regarding the overlap of these different approaches. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Item context effects refer to the impact of features of a test on an examinee's item responses. These effects cannot be explained by the abilities measured by the test. Investigations typically focus on only a single type ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
We aimed to identify factors associated with perceived economic well-being (PEWB), and examine its association with symptoms of depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. In the Norwegian youth@hordaland ...
(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 / 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, 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 / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The increasing digitalization in the field of psychological and educational testing opens up new opportunities to innovate assessments in many respects (e.g., new item formats, flexible test assembly, efficient data ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 / 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) ...
(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 ...
(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, 2017)
Current debates on students' use of information and communication technology (ICT) have brought to attention profiles and purposes of ICT use in either school-related or recreational contexts. Examining these two contexts ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In countries with universal access to early childhood education and care (ECEC), child participation is high across a range of socioeconomic groups. However, ECEC quality is often varying, and many children spend much time ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Crafting a validity argument is crucial for the development of any assessment of ICT literacy. In about the context of studying gender differences in ICT literacy, it has therefore become essential to ensure that gender ...
(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 / 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)
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 / 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)
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, 2018)
(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 / 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 / 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 / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
International large-scale assessments are very successful. One key factor of this success is their rigorous methodological and psychometric basis. Because education systems worldwide are subject to rapid changes, international ...
(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)
The development of a computerized adaptive test is considered a labor-intensive and time-consuming endeavor. This paper illustrates that this does not have to be the case—by demonstrating the steps taken, the decisions ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This chapter provides a brief overview of national and international large-scale assessment in Norway. Embedded in a range of assessment tools that consist of mapping tests in grades 1–4, national assessments in grades ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Die Fähigkeit, mathematische Inhalte in Spielsituationen der Kindertagesstätte zu identifizieren, um diese für eine angemessene Förderung mathematischer Kompetenzen bei Kindern zu nutzen, kann als ein wesentlicher Bestandteil ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Computer coding—an activity that involves the creation, modification, and implementation of computer code and exposes students to computational thinking—is an integral part of today's education in science, technology, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Mixed-worded scales require a more careful reading and answering process than scales with only one type of wording. The present study is about the unintended consequences of using such scales, because typically, not all ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract The use of response formats in assessments of medical knowledge and clinical reasoning continues to be the focus of both research and debate. In this article, we report on an experimental study in which we address ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In recent years, exclusion rates in PISA have risen in many countries, including a sharper-than-average rise in Norway. This article focuses on Norway’s experience with exclusion rates in PISA, including an analysis tracking ...