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(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 / 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, 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 / 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, 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)
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 ...
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 / 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 ...
(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, 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 ...
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, 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, 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, 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, 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 / 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, ...
(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, 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)
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 / 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 / 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 ...
(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 / 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 / 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 ...
(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 / 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, 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 ...
(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, 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, 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 / 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 / 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, 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, 2020)
Der Erfassung von Unterrichtsqualität durch Beobachterratings ist in den letzten Jahren viel Aufmerksamkeit zuteilgeworden. Erste Evidenz liegt dabei auch zu deren Variabilität zwischen mehreren Unterrichtsstunden vor. ...
(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 / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Assessment matters. Indeed, scientific progress largely depends on the extent to which assessments can provide reliable and valid measures of variables – be it well-defined and observable variables in the natural sciences ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Technology and computers change and penetrate our lives to an extent that was unthinkable 30 years ago, and it is the mission of Computers in Human Behavior to advance our knowledge on how humans interact with, make use ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Few studies have focused on the importance of peers for child language development in the preschool years. The aim of this study was to assess whether peer expressive language skills predict language ability of preschool-aged ...
(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 ...
(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 / 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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(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 / 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 / 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)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(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 / 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 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, ...
(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 / 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 / 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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(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 ...
(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)
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 ...
(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 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 ...
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)
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 ...
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 ...