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Research groups

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The BESD research group aims to develop research-based knowledge about psychosocial difficulties, reasons for these difficulties, and relevant interventions in both national and international contexts.

 

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COSER focuses on the relationship between education and contemporary complex issues related to sustainable development.

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Welcome to Communicative Processes (ComPros), the research group dedicated to understanding communicative developmental and learning processes in typical and atypical populations across the lifespan. Our main goal is to contribute to developing effective interventions for individuals with language and communication difficulties. 

How do actors at school level collaborate to realize the overarching societal mission of schooling? This is one of the questions the group will be focusing on. Illustration photo of school leaders talking by : Shane Colvin/ UV.

The research group provides academic insights into vital educational policy issues of national and international significance.

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FREMO serves to build up an internationally recognizable profile in the field of educational measurement, and address issues of specific relevance for measurement in the Norwegian context.

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The research group Humanities Studies in Education (HumStud) engages primarily in philosophical and historical analysis of formal and informal education.

ComPros members are involved in a range of ongoing research projects, of which many are externally funded. All members bring their ongoing research projects into the research group. Our short-term goal is therefore to complete ongoing projects and achieve a synergy effect from these ongoing projects.  

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The HEDWORK group consists of senior researchers and research fellows who conduct research in higher education and work settings.

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The research group “Large-scale Educational Assessment” (LEA) is aimed at developing and validating large-scale assessments, addressing relevant questions in education based on large-scale assessment data, and disseminating the findings obtained from large-scale assessment data analysis to a broad audience.

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LiNCon is a research group which aims at providing academic and broader audiences with research-based knowledge about the context in which children develop and acquire literacy and numeracy skills.  

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Living and Learning in the Digital Age (LiDA) is a multidisciplinary research group that explores children and young people’s learning, use of technology and socialization in formal and informal learning contexts.

The research group's interest in instructional practices and students’ learning has led to a particular focus on classroom studies (Photo of classroom: colourbox).

How do knowledge cultures and instructional practices across subjects and settings promote student learning? What impact can different models of instruction have on student learning? These are two central, overarching questions for the research group SISCO.

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The TEPEC research group is dedicated to the study of teachers’ professional development in educational programs.

The research group focus on different aspects of literacy, such as literacy among language minority children, beginning reading skills, oral discourse as a precursor for literacy, text comprehension among postsecondary students, and reading of multiple sources.