About the project
Central questions in this project were:
- To what extent can we use student questionnaires to measure teaching quality?
- To what extent is high-quality teaching associated with students’ well-being, motivation, or achievement?
- To what extent do certain type of teaching practices work better for some group of students?
Background and design
Theoretically, the project was built on previous research identifying four important dimensions of teaching quality:
- classroom management
- supportive climate
- cognitive activation
- instructional clarity
The project mainly used data obtained from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science (TIMSS) study in Norway in 2019, which were analyzed through Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling.
The project was associated with the Large-scale Educational Assessment (LEA) research group and the Unit for Quantitative Analysis in Education (EKVA). The preliminary time frame for the project was from February 2020 until May 2024.
Financing
The project was financed by the Norwegian Research Council (the FINNUT program).