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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Aggressive adolescents are preferable in some Western cultures, whereas Confucianism places great emphasis on the inhibition of aggressive behaviors in Chinese culture. Using the longitudinal social network analysis, we ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Abstract
Purpose
The Severity Indices of Personality Problems 118 (SIPP-118) is a self-report questionnaire that aims to measure core components of (mal)adaptive personality functioning that can change over time. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Children with conduct problems and callous-unemotional (CU) traits are at risk for multiple problems. Outcome research and mediation analyses testing for mechanisms of change in CU traits have been limited. We examined ...
(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 / 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, 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 / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This study aims at modeling the self-reported test-taking motivation items in PISA and TIMSS Advanced studies for Swedish students using an IRT approach. In the last two cycles of the assessments, six test-specific items ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)
This dissertation provides a thorough discussion of the results from three different empirical studies on inequalities in educational outcomes and equity policy in Ethiopia. Specifically, the studies focus on gender and ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Despite the sensitivity of fit indices to various model and data characteristics in structural equation modeling, these fit indices are used in a rigid binary fashion as a mere rule of thumb threshold value in a search for ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
What encourages an innovative environment in schools and what does that imply for teaching?
An innovative environment is important for a school’s ability to adapt to societal changes and for students’ ability to cope with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Zusammenfassung. In dieser Softwareinformation werden die Möglichkeiten zur Konstruktion, Administration und Auswertung kriteriumsorientierter, computerisierter adaptiver und nicht-adaptiver Tests mit der R-basierten ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic led to numerous governments deciding to close schools for several weeks in spring 2020. Empirical evidence on the impact of COVID-19-related school closures on academic achievement is only just emerging. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract Academic resilience refers to students’ capacity to perform highly despite a disadvantaged background. Although most studies using international large-scale assessment (ILSA) data defined academic resilience with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract Early childhood teacher education is considered crucial for the development of professional knowledge. However, little is known about the impacts of teacher educators, especially with respect to domain-specific ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
With the aim of developing an assessment more appropriate for low-income countries, in 2013 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development initiated the Programme for International Student Assessment for ...
(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, 2024)
Learning strategies have been recognized as important predictors of mathematical achievement. In recent studies, it has been found that Asian students use combined learning strategies, primarily including metacognitive ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Questionnaire scales that are mixed-worded, i.e. include both positively and negatively worded items, often suffer from issues like low reliability and more complex latent structures than intended. Part of the problem might ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This paper addresses the development of performance-based assessment items for ICT skills, skills in dealing with information and communication technologies, a construct which is rather broadly and only operationally ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The purpose of this study is to examine leadership for learning practices across the world by establishing profiles of leadership at school and country levels. Consequently, the study brings to our attention the (ir)relevance ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
In the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), instructional leadership is measured by the self-reports of principals on three items only. When this measure is investigated together with teacher satisfaction ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The study examines beginning teachers’ and pre-service teachers’ motivation to teach in China. Data are drawn from questionnaires completed by 107 beginning teachers (full-time teachers with fewer than six years’ working ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract It is widely assumed that teachers play a key role in providing high-quality learning opportunities to students and fostering students’ learning. Yet it is still unclear how specific teacher knowledge facets as ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This study examined absolute and relative judgment accuracies of German early childhood (EC) teachers with respect to the mathematical skills of the children under their supervision. The two types of judgment accuracies ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This eye-tracking study investigates how novice and expert teachers' noticing of classroom management events differs in two formats of instruction. 20 novices and 20 experts participated in the study, watching short video ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
In this chapter, we explore how pre-service early childhood teachers' mathematics pedagogical content knowledge, their skill in perceiving math-related situations and the skill in planning math-related actions within such ...
(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 ...
(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)
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)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Questionnaire scales often include a combination of both positively and negatively worded items such as “I make friends easily at school” and “I feel lonely at school”. In this case, a respondent with a high sense of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This study examines homeroom teachers’ motivation and morality in their classroom-level leadership in China. Data are drawn from questionnaires completed by 137 junior middle school homeroom teachers from Tianjin city, and ...
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)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Background
Emergency Department (ED) visits and health care costs are increasing globally, but little is known about contributing factors of ED resource consumption. This study aims to analyse and to predict the total ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
The expanding access and use of digital devices among young students led to ongoing debates about the advantages and disadvantages of such use. Educational organizations in particular were concerned about the impact of ICT ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The ability to construct meaning from texts is the core of reading. We report a meta-analysis and a systematic review of 64 longitudinal studies tracing the development of reading comprehension from preschool. Previous ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This article contributes to the field of reading assessment in English as a second language (L2). Few reading studies have been carried out at the upper secondary school level, and the present study provides insight into ...
(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, 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 ...
(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 ...
(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)
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)
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 / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Large‐scale assessments such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have field trials where new survey features are tested for utility in the main survey. Because of resource constraints, there is a ...
Oaxaca Blinder Decomposition of Gender Differences in Reading: An Analysis of Finland and Norway in PISA 2018 Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(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 ...
Team Innovativeness in Nordic Schools: Do Distributed, Instructional Leadership and Teacher Professional Collaboration Matter? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
(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)
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, 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 ...
(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 / 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)
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 ...
(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. ...
(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 ...
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 ...
(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, 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 / 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)
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, 2024)
Common indicator-based approaches to identifying careless and insufficient effort responding (C/IER) in survey data scan response vectors or timing data for aberrances, such as patterns signaling straight lining, multivariate ...
(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, 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 ...
(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)
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)
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)
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 ...
(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, 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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
I dette kapitlet undersøker vi sammenhengene mellom læreres kvalitet, deres undervisningskvalitet samt -kvantitet og elevers prestasjoner i naturfag på 5. trinn. TIMSS 2015-rapporten undersøkte en del av disse relasjonene ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The aim is to describe the development of achievement in compulsory school in the Nordic countries from the 1960s. The study relies on published results concerning literacy and numeracy from the international large-scale ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
In a very short time, secondary school education across the globe transitioned to online learning and teaching, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This study aims at identifying teacher profiles in secondary education ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This study offers curriculum developers, teachers and science education researchers a fine-grained profile on strengths and weaknesses in specific science domains and topics. The study involved a representative sample of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Research on teacher noticing in the field of mathematics education research has increased in the last decade; however, only a few studies have investigated the social and cultural impact on teachers’ noticing. This paper ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Teaching practice and its representation by videos are a central part of many empirical studies concerning the field of teaching and learning. In order to analyze how videos can help to investigate aspects of teachers’ ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The current study aims to examine the psychometric properties of the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders Module I (SCID-5-AMPD-I) assessing the Level of Personality ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
As there is currently a marked increase in the use of both unidimensional (UCAT) and multidimensional computerized adaptive testing (MCAT) in psychological and health measurement, the main aim of the present study is to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Several approaches have been proposed for latent class modeling with external variables, including one-step, two-step, and three-step estimators. However, very little is known yet about the performance of these approaches ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Likeverd er et viktig aspekt ved norsk skole, og forskjeller i prestasjoner knyttet til hjemmebakgrunn er små i Norge sett i et internasjonalt perspektiv. Likevel er det mye som tyder på at dette kanskje er i ferd med å ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
TIMSS 1995 kan regnes som den første internasjonale undersøkelsen av sitt slag, og i de mer enn 20 årene som har gått, har vi sett en framvekst av flere og mer varierte internasjonale undersøkelser. I dette kapitlet gir ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
TIMSS-undersøkelsene har vist at norske elever på 4. og 8. trinn har hatt en framgang i matematikk- og naturfagprestasjoner siden 2003. Dette kom etter en tilsvarende stor tilbakegang fra 1995 til 2003. I dette kapitlet ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
I Norge går alle barn født det samme året på samme klassetrinn, med veldig få unntak. Dette betyr at forskjell i alder kan være bortimot tolv måneder på det samme trinnet. I idrett og utdanning viser eksisterende litteratur ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)