LEA members connected to the research project "kartleggingsprøver i regning" presented at the biennial FREMO 2023 conference (see below for more details). The conference was organized by the Centre of Educational Measurement (CEMO) at the University of Oslo and took place at the Oslo Science Park.
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LEA members are engaged in several activities, ranging from developing and evaluating educational assessments to informing researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers about issues related to large-scale assessments.
More news can be found on LEA's Norwegian webpage
LEA member Nani Teig received funding for her project titled "Rising to the challenge: Academic resilience in mathematics and science among disadvantaged students (ARISE)". The project received funding from the Norwegian research council (NFR) and more specifically, from the Research Projects for Young Talents (Thematic Prioirity Call). More information on the project can be found below.
LEA member Nani Teig was invited by the Eurasia Foundation to participate in a two-day virtual workshop on the importance of data in informing education policymaking in Iran. The workshop targeted school teachers and education advocates from Iran and aimed to improve the understanding of the role of data in informing education policy.
More specifically, Nani presented the importance of data in monitoring progress towards international education targets using the TIMSS study and her work on academic resilience. Her presentation was live-translated from English into Persian (Farsi).
Two LEA members, Trude Nilsen and Xin Liu, contribute with paper presentations to the ECER 2023 conference in Glasgow (see below for more details).
LEA member Xin Liu contributed to an article investigating students' digital competence in the context of Chinese higher education and its relationship with students' career adaptability. More information on the study and its findings can be found below.
Two LEA members, Jelena Radisic and Mark White, contribute with paper presentations to the EARLI 2023 conference in Thessaloniki (see below for more details).
LEA member Jelena Radisic has published a book chapter in an open-access book on The Evolution of Research on Teaching Mathematics. Jelena's book chapter discusses, among other things, how we use student (learning) outcomes to assess students' mathematical understanding. (See below for more information).
Nhu Truong, who is currently pursuing her PhD in Science Education at Stockholm University, will be joining LEA for a research stay from 12-23 June 2023. She is interested in using PISA data to study educational equity and academic resilience with a special focus on science education. We're excited to have Nhu on our fifth floor, let's give her a grand LEA welcome!
UNESCO and McGill University Canada host a full-day hybrid research seminar on Comparative and Case Study Insights on Educational Equity in SDG 4 on 9 June 2023 at 14:30-22:00 CEST. Nani will present her work on "Embracing teachers’ role in promoting equity in the classroom: Global patterns and evidence of academic resilience from 58 countries".
Check out the full program, list of presenters and discussants, and registration here
LEA research group and CEMO proudly announce the new special issue "Leveraging large-scale assessments for effective and equitable school practices: The case of the Nordic countries," published in the journal Large-scale Assessment in Education. Edited by Nani Teig LEA and Isa Steinmann, this special issue offers valuable insights into school practices with a focus on equity and effectiveness in Nordic countries.
Bas Senden has, together with Trude Nilsen and Nani Teig, published the first article of his PhD project. The article assesses the extent to which students in primary and secondary school can provide reliable and valid ratings of teaching quality.
The world-renowned professor Andrew Martin is scheduled to visit Oslo from 19-23 June as part of Nani Teig's CAS project. Andrew is an educational psychologist who specializes in motivation, engagement, achievement, and quantitative research methods. During his visit, he will first present about Generation-Disrupted (Gen-D). Afterwards, there will be a PhD forum, where PhD’s and Postdocs will be given the opportunity to present their ongoing work and receive feedback from Andrew.
Trude and Nani are working - together with a large international team of researchers - on a EU horizon application that focuses on the mapping of longitudinal data and assessment of inequalities in education, training and learning achievements. The application is part of the call for inclusiveness in times of change and pertains to addressing long-standing educational inequalities that have been pervasive across the European Union and have been further aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The deadline for the application is the 14th of March.
Several LEA members associated with the national project "Kartleggingsprøver i regning" are presenting at the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) 2023 conference in Oslo. Our members contributed to the conference in the form of one article presentation and one poster presentation (see underneath for more details).
Nani Teig presented at a symposium at the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) 67th annual conference. The symposium was titled: "insights from the GEM Report Fellows 2022: Comparative and case study insights on education monitoring and equity". The symposium was led by Dr Priyadarshani Joshi and supported by UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report. Within this symposium, Nani presented on "Embracing teachers’ role in promoting equity in the classrooms: Global patterns and evidence from 58 countries". A full abstract of the presentation can be found underneath.
Guri - on behalf of the Norwegian numeracy mapping test - presented at the FLIP+ webinar. Using data from cognitive labs, pilot studies and the first test administration, the presentation discussed how students are affected by test design, and how valid and reliable digital numeracy assessments can be developed for young students. The presentation was recorded and can be watched here. Guri's presentation starts at around 20 minutes into the webinar. More about what was discussed in the presentation can be found underneath.
Jelena has contributed to an article which reports on the psychometric properties of the expectancy-value scale — an instrument intended to measure students' motivation in mathematics. More information on the study and its findings can be found underneath.
Three of our LEA members – Andreas, Maria, and Marte – recently attended the Autumn academy 2022 in Berlin organized by the IEA-ETS Research Institute (IERI). The academy focused on assessment design, the use of Item Response Theory (IRT), and Population Modelling in Large-scale Assessments.
Two of our LEA members: Jelena and Xin have contributed to an article investigating contextual effects on students’ achievement and academic self-concept in the Nordic and Chinese educational systems. More information on the study and its findings can be found underneath.
LEA welcomes Xin Liu, who has started as a postdoctoral fellow with the MATHMot project. Her research focused on student, teacher, and school characteristics affecting academic performance, evaluating teacher effectiveness and instructional quality, and investigating relationships between working conditions and teacher well-being. Methodological issues, such as multilevel analysis, structural equation modelling, and longitudinal analysis are of interest to her.
Several LEA members associated with the national project "Kartleggingsprøver i regning" have attended the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Assessment – Europe (AEA-Europe 2022). Our members contributed to the conference in the form of two poster presentations and a discussion group (see underneath for more details).
Three of our LEA members: Trude, Hege, and Anne-Catherine, have published an article in which they examine school factors related to declining performance in mathematics. Their study shows that declines in aspects of school climate and student self-concept were related to the declines in achievements from 2015 to 2019. More information on the study can be found underneath.
The International Handbook of Comparative Large-scale Studies in Education: Perspectives, Methods and Findings is published. This is a handbook containing a large body of knowledge about international large-scale studies, including underlying theories, historical and political perspectives, methodology, and findings from studies using large-scale data. LEA member Trude Nilsen edited the handbook together with Agnes Stancel Piatak from the IEA and Jan-Eric Gustafsson from the University of Gothenburg. Several LEA members contributed to the book. A list of chapters in which LEA members were involved can be found underneath.
Several LEA members are collaborating across the Nordics to shed light on effective and equitable teacher practice in mathematics and science education. The Nothern Lights on TIMSS book is funded by the IEA and the Nordic Council of Ministers and is expected to be published in 2023.