News

(10 September 2026)

We have set up repositories to openly share materials and data from the project  

(31 August 2026)

Project researcher Laoura Ziaka attended the 23rd European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2026) and presented work from the project.

(July 2026)

Members of the project team attended the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading and presented work from the project.

Martijn Meeter is a Professor of Education Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. He will be a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo from April 15th to June 15th to collaborate with BetterReading researchers.

(3 & 5 June 2026)

In connection with the project's closing seminar, a group of top researchers from Europe and the US discussed their cutting-edge research on topics related to reading fluency in a two-day symposium at CREATE.

(4 June 2026)

Teachers, school principals, PPT consultants, and other professionals in education and special education attended the project's closing seminar for practitioners 

(30 March 2026)

Victoria Adedeji is an Early Career Fellow at the University of Leicester. She holds a PhD from Bournemouth University. She will be a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo until May 1st to collaborate with BetterReading researchers.

Seminar for practitioners, June 4th 2026

Topic: Reading fluency and effective reading intervention

(21 November 2025)

Project researcher Laoura Ziaka attended the 66th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society and presented work from the project.

(3 September 2025)

The project director attended the 24th biennial conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology and presented work from the project.

(23 November 2024)

Members of the project team attended the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society and presented work from the project.

(21 June 2024)

Following the third and last assessment period for our second cohort of second graders, we are delighted to announce the completion of the second phase of the project, which concerned administration of intervention and data collection from comprehensive assessment before and after intervention. 

(4 June 2024)

This year the project has again been enriched with several capable master students in special needs education who gathered additional data and wrote their master’s theses.

(4 April 2024)

The week after Easter our international collaborator Jochen Laubrock from the University of Potsdam visited Oslo.

(20 December 2023)

We are delighted to report that we have completed the intervention program for our second and final cohort of 5th graders in the three participating schools.

(17 November 2023)

Members of the project team attended the 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society and presented posters of current research work from the project.
 

(17 August 2023)

Schools are starting, and we are ready to take on a new cohort of 5th graders.

(August 2023)

We are very happy to welcome a new member to our BetterReading team! Helene Raunholm has joined us to help with intervention and assessment during the 2nd year of the project’s intervention program.

(22 July 2023)

Kristin Simonsen attended the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Society of Reading and presented a poster on the development of two of our new tests.

(27 June 2023)

Following completion of intervention for our first cohort of 2nd graders and their final assessment phase, we enjoyed a Greek dinner on the terrace.

(February 1, 2023)

Great to see two groups of cheerful 2nd graders getting started on reading our exciting story of planet Tiruna.

(20 January 2023)

We must unfortunately cancel reading intervention with 2nd graders at Fjellhamar school during spring 2023 due to illness.

(10. January 2023)

It is now time to begin work with second grade. Thank you all who have agreed to participate.

(January 2023)

We are delighted to report that we have completed the final assessment of our first groups of 5th graders in the participating schools.

(December 2022)

Despite small delays due to illness and various school activities, almost all participating children have now successfully completed the intervention program with at least 20 reading sessions.