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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.

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Published Aug. 17, 2023 11:26 AM

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).

Published June 7, 2023 10:58 AM

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!

Published June 7, 2023 10:51 AM

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

Published June 7, 2023 10:24 AM

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.

Published Apr. 24, 2023 1:02 PM

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.

 

Published Mar. 14, 2023 1:36 PM

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.

Published Feb. 28, 2023 11:02 AM

In the weeks to come, both the TIMSS and ICILS projects are starting with their main survey data collection. In preparation for this, the projects will do a training with some of the test administrators on the 7th of March.

Published Feb. 21, 2023 8:47 AM

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.

Published Jan. 30, 2023 12:29 PM

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.

Published Nov. 16, 2022 9:49 AM

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.

Published Oct. 25, 2022 2:34 PM

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.