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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Meta-analyses and international large-scale assessments (ILSA) are key sources for informing educational policy, research, and practice. While many critical research questions could be addressed by drawing evidence from ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
This article-based thesis focuses on academic resilience in the context of international studies using international large-scale assessment data. It investigates theoretical, empirical, and methodological aspects of defining ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This study examined the impact of two questionnaire characteristics, scale position and questionnaire length, on the prevalence of random responders in the TIMSS 2015 eighth-grade student questionnaire. While there was no ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Abstract Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are crucial for advancing research, yet they are time-consuming and resource-demanding. Although machine learning and natural language processing algorithms may reduce this ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Over the past decade, there has been an enormous upsurge in the use of educational apps in primary schools. However, few studies have examined how children interact with these apps and how their interaction patterns relate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
We investigated two research questions: which students are more likely to respond inconsistently to mixed-worded questionnaire scales, and which country samples have larger shares of inconsistent respondents? We defined ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
In survey scale design, a mixed-worded format intends to ensure attentiveness as respondents need to take into account the wording direction when answering an item. However, some respondents tend to deliver inconsistent ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Different data types often occur in psychological and educational measurement such as computer‐based assessments that record performance and process data (e.g., response times and the number of actions). Modelling such ...
(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, 2023)
Background
The Home and Community Social Behavior Scales (HCSBS) is a rating scale that assesses social competence and antisocial behavior among children and youths between ages 5–18. The present study aimed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic had a disruptive effect on higher education. A critical question is whether these changes affected students’ learning outcomes. Knowledge gaps have consequences for future learning and may—in health ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
In the present study, we tested the common assumption that teachers with more experience consider themselves better prepared for online teaching and learning (OTL). Utilizing the data from a survey of 366 higher-education ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
To unfold the potential of learning with technology in classrooms, teachers must be prepared to integrate it meaningfully and with high instructional quality. Professional development (PD) is an important avenue for preparing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Given the ongoing development of computer-based tasks, there has been increasing interest in modelling students’ behaviour indicators from log file data with contextual variables collected via questionnaires. In this work, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Gender gaps in school enrollment and achievement are usually investigated as separate facets of gender inequality in education. This study suggests that they might be linked by design. If boys and girls differ in their ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The Covid-19 pandemic provided a critical opportunity to understand how teachers experienced and perceived online practices, as they transitioned to emergency remote teaching. However, how these experiences relate, and how ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Process data from educational assessments enhance the understanding of how students answer cognitive items. However, effectively making use of these data is challenging. We propose an approach to identify solution patterns ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Gender differences are one of the most contentious issues in educational research. This study analyzes long-term changes in gender gaps in reading comprehension at the end of primary school in 63 education systems. It links ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education’s student self-reported learning outcomes measure assesses the learners’ satisfaction with their learning outcomes using ten generic items. The aggregate scores are ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In 2015, the United Nations introduced the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, one of which was to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to take action for sustainable development. Action ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract The digitalisation of education has been emphasised over the last two decades, affecting and developing both the theories and practices of teaching and learning. Considering these developments, the need for ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Mixed-worded survey scales are commonly used to ensure respondent attentiveness. Respondents need to switch response scales according to the wording direction (i.e., positive or negative wording) when answering an item. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This research was conducted to address the paucity of comparative studies on different methods for estimating standard errors with Laplace approximated maximum likelihood in multidimensional item response theory models. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
When grade point averages (GPAs) are used for admission into tertiary education, there is an implicit assumption that the GPA of any two students relate to the same level of academic competency. However, this assumption ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract This study aimed to determine the dimensionality of morphological knowledge by examining different sources of variance. According to the Morphological Pathways Framework ( Levesque et al., Journal of Research in ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Problem-solving is a critical aspect of intelligence that has become increasingly important in modern society. Mapping out the determinants of success in problem-solving helps understand the underlying cognitive processes ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Problem-solving skills, especially problem-solving skills in technology-rich environments, are critical in today's world as one of the 21st-century skills. International large-scale assessments, such as the OECD's Programme ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Feeling uncertain when you deal with fractions? You are not alone! Dating back more than 4,000 years, fractions have always played a major role in society. Despite its importance, research shows that many pupils, students, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract In this paper, we report on teachers’ and principals’ shared perceptions regarding beliefs, rules, trust, and encouragement of new initiatives. Collectively, these are aspects of leadership for learning (LFL) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Ignorable likelihood (IL) approaches are often used to handle missing data when estimating a multivariate model, such as a structural equation model. In this case, the likelihood is based on all available data, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A computationally efficient method for marginal maximum likelihood estimation of multiple group generalized linear latent variable models for categorical data is introduced. The approach utilizes second-order Laplace ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to examine quality of life (QOL) and its relation to language skills in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). This was examined by comparing QOL to a control group ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
During the last years, the “Great Online Transition” has brought to light large variation in teachers' readiness for online teaching and learning (OTL). Drawing from an international sample of 731 higher-education teachers, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The use of empirical prior information about participants has been shown to substantially improve the efficiency of computerized adaptive tests (CATs) in educational settings. However, it is unclear how these results ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A general validity and survey quality concern with student questionnaires under low-stakes assessment conditions is that some responders will not genuinely engage with the questionnaire, often with more random response ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Gender differences in item nonresponse are well-documented in high-stakes achievement tests, where female students are shown to omit more items than male students. These gender differences in item nonresponse are ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
This thesis explores two specific applications of null baseline model comparisons in the context of quantitative research in international large-scale educational assessments. Both applications make use of a null baseline ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Differences in performance can be related to the item format. This is a controversial issue that poses a problem for the validity of test-score interpretations. Using the mathematics items of PISA 2018, organized in rotated ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract Poor metaphor comprehension was considered a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but recent research has questioned the extent and the sources of these difficulties. In this cross-sectional study, we ...
The Relation between Mathematics Anxiety and Achievement: A Study of the Moderating Role of Immigration Background on PISA 2012 Norwegian Students Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Background
Cognitive inflexibility and compulsive behaviours are commonly observed in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and are often considered to be caused by impairments in executive functioning and visuospatial ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Mixed worded scales contain both positively and negatively worded items. These are introduced in some questionnaires to reduce response style, which is a tendency to answer items regardless of their content. When a respondent ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The low-stakes character of international large-scale educational assessments implies that a participating student might at times provide unrelated answers as if s/he was not even reading the items and choosing a response ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract Whether boredom is a unitary construct or if multiple types of boredom exist is a long-standing debate. Recent research has established the existence of boredom types based on frequency observations of boredom by ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
A great number of studies have investigated science teaching and learning (STL) using data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract In psychometrics, the canonical use of conditional likelihoods is for the Rasch model in measurement. Whilst not disputing the utility of conditional likelihoods in measurement, we examine a broader class of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The relative school achievement of female and male students varies over time and domains. During the last decades, female participation in primary schooling has increased in countries at the low end of the income scale. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The world is changing, and successful adaptation to novelty lies through openness, curiosity, confidence, and a growth mindset – in other words, adaptability. Nevertheless, how can we say if one is adaptable or not? Can ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This note serves as a reminder that incremental fit indices are a form of standardized effect sizes and hence, all reservations with respect to interpretations of standardized effect sizes also transfer to their interpretation. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
In standardized testing, equating is used to ensure comparability of test scores across multiple test administrations. One equipercentile observed-score equating method is kernel equating, where an essential step is to ...
Team Innovativeness in Nordic Schools: Do Distributed, Instructional Leadership and Teacher Professional Collaboration Matter? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 indicate large international differences in gender gaps in mathematics achievement. Interestingly, countries with a high proportion of ...
Oaxaca Blinder Decomposition of Gender Differences in Reading: An Analysis of Finland and Norway in PISA 2018 Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Children with low performance in early numeracy are at risk of facing learning difficulties in mathematics, but few trials have examined how this can be ameliorated. A total of 120 first-grade children ( M age = 6.4 years) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Fixed and growth mindsets represent implicit theories about the nature of one's abilities or traits. The existing body of research on academic achievement and the effectiveness of mindset interventions for student learning ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The prerequisite for meaningful comparisons of educational inequality indicators across immigration status is the comparability of socioeconomic status (SES) measures. The Programme for International Student Assessment ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The certainty of response index (CRI) measures respondents' confidence level when answering an item. In conjunction with the answers to the items, previous studies have used descriptive statistics and arbitrary thresholds ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Introduction
The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has started to be used in longitudinal investigations to measure cognition trends but its measurement properties over time are largely unknown. This study aimed to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Reliability of scores from psychological or educational assessments provides important information regarding the precision of measurement. The reliability of scores is however population dependent and may vary across groups. ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Computational advancements in the last couple of decades have brought forth a new era of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) in which the administration of computer-based tests is becoming the norm. Beyond ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Enabling comparable scores across grades is of interest for policymakers to evaluate educational systems, for researchers to investigate substantive questions, and for teachers to infer student growth. This study implemented ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This longitudinal study examined the development of 129 German early childhood teachers’ knowledge and epistemic beliefs in mathematics from teacher education to practice. The test and questionnaire data have been analyzed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Background
The present study addresses the equality of school effectiveness across schools. One central aim of compulsory education is for students to learn equally well at all schools in a country even ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Value-added (VA) models are used for accountability purposes and quantify the value a teacher or a school adds to their students’ achievement. If VA scores lack stability over time and vary across outcome domains (e.g., ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The study examines two types of pre-service teachers’ teaching motivation and perceptions of teacher morality in China through the following three research questions: (1) What are pre-service teachers’ teaching motivations ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Objective To assess the effects (quantitatively) and the utility (qualitatively) of a COVID-19 online forward triage tool (OFTT) in a pandemic context. Design A mixed method sequential explanatory study was employed. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
This study investigates the relations between working environment and teachers' job satisfaction, perceived work-related stress, as well as work-related self-efficacy. The sample consisted of 226 mathematics teachers from ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Research on intelligence and competence has developed widely independent of each other. The present paper aims at relating these traditions and at integrating the dominant models to fill gaps in the respective theories. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Abstract Emotions play an essential role in educational processes. Previous research has mainly dealt with achievement emotions which are experienced in specific situations such as exams or learning situations in mathematics ...
Opening up the black box: Teacher competence, instructional quality, and students’ learning progress
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Existing research indicates inconsistent or at best weak predictive effects of teacher knowledge on student achievement. Data from Germany were used to examine the relation between teachers' content and pedagogical content ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In psychological and educational tests, aberrant behaviors may cause errors in proficiency estimation, and artificially inflate the estimates. It is essential that the test administration can perform data forensic analysis, ...
School Innovativeness: How Teachers' Team Innovativeness and Target Teaching Class Composition Interact on Teachers' Teaching Quality in TALIS 2018? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Objectives:
The vocabulary of children with cochlear implants is often smaller than that of their peers with typical hearing, but there is uncertainty regarding the extent of the differences and potential risks and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Communication of International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) results is dominated by reporting average country achievement scores that conceal individual differences between pupils, schools, and items. Educational research ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
The current study examined clinicians’ utilization of the SCID-5-AMPD-I funnel structure. Across 237 interviews, conducted as part of the NorAMP study, we found that clinicians administered on average 2-3 adjacent levels ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
There is a widespread belief that older teachers have less innovativeness than younger ones; however, the evidence backing this is contradictory. This study examined the relation between age and teacher innovativeness—that ...
(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)
Background
Children with low-income parents have a higher risk of mental disorders, although it is unclear whether other parental characteristics or genetic confounding explain these associations and whether it is true ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Complex problem solving (CPS), one of the most prominent 21st century skills, is an important educational goal. Previous studies have demonstrated that varying levels of proficiency in students’ problem solving processes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(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, 2021)
This study examines academic teachers' agency and emergency responses, prompted by the physical closure of universities and university colleges due to the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic-related lockdown accelerated the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Although large-scale assessments (LSA) of school achievement claim to measure domain-specific achievement, they have been criticized for primarily measuring domain-general abilities. Numerous studies provide evidence that ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Background:
Measurement advances are needed to enable the study of dyadic-level processes impacting couples coping with cancer. This study sought to develop and empirically examine a Dyadic Efficacy Scale for Cancer ...
Identifying School Climate Variables Associated with Financial Literacy Outcomes in PISA 2018 Data: En metode for strukturell flernivåmodellering Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Gjentatte finanskriser og den nåværende pandemisituasjonen avslørte de alvorlige konsekvensene av manglende økonomisk kunnskap i en betydelig andel av befolkningen. Selv om kompenserende tiltak har vist seg å være mest ...
(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 / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
We examined the concurrent relationship between narrative skills (the Renfrew Bus Story Test) and core language measures (vocabulary, grammar and verbal memory) at age 4 and the longitudinal relationship between core ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract Research to date on the effects of between-school tracking on inequalities in achievement and on performance has been inconclusive. A possible explanation is that different studies used different data, focused on ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2021)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Several studies have conceptualized neuropsychological dysfunction as part of the core pathology and defining behaviors seen in the eating disorder anorexia nervosa (AN). The aim of the current review was to synthesize the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Compositional items – a form of forced-choice items – require respondents to allocate a fixed total number of points to a set of statements. To describe the responses to these items, the Thurstonian item response theory ...
Shortening the Test? A Comparison of Test Shortening Strategies Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Sesjon is a general entrance exam to the Norwegian Armed Forces. Due to time limitations, it would be necessary to shorten some parts of sesjon to add new assessments. This study investigates whether it is feasible to ...