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Mats Tegmark; Monika Vinterek; Tarja Alatalo; Mikael Winberg – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The purpose of this study is to develop understanding of the relation between instructional practices and students' reading amount. As part of a larger mixed-methods study of reading practices across the curriculum in Swedish compulsory school, a selection of 14 classes from Grades 6 and 9 were observed over a total of 59 lessons. The data…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
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Annika Thyberg; Konrad Schönborn; Niklas Gericke – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The aim of this study is to investigate students' meaning-making of multiple visual representations of epigenetics at different levels of biological organisation, and to discern what visual aspects of the multiple visual representations might influence students' reasoning. Adopting an exploratory approach, we analysed how students made meaning of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Science Education, Genetics
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Alexander Jansson; Gunilla Brun Sundblad; Suzanne Lundvall; Johan R. Norberg – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
School grades are among the most common measurements used to analyze equality of outcome in education. Large or increasing 'gaps' in school grades between boys and girls and between students with different migration background are considered strong indicators of inequality. Based on students' school grades, several studies have shown that equality…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Migration, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education
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Eduardo Tapia – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Previous studies investigating how the school choice paradigm shapes school segregation have found that students' ethnic school preferences drive school segregation by leading students to rank and change current schools following ethnic homophily orientations. This study investigates an intermediate moment in which these preferences contribute to…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Educational Change, Grade 9, High School Students
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Per Nilsson; Andreas Eckert – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2024
This study contributes to the call for influencing practice by increasing attention to how learning environments can be designed to support learning in statistical inference. We report on a design experiment in secondary school (students 14-16 years old), that resulted in a set of lessons with the learning goal of teaching students how to apply…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Hypothesis Testing, Secondary School Students
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Pantea Rinnemaa – Social Studies, 2024
This article examines Swedish civics teachers' perspectives on difficulties and opportunities that their second-language (L2) students encounter when reading textbook texts in civics. The study is based on individual semi-structured interviews with teachers in Grade 9. Civics teachers report uncertainty about identifying the source of difficulties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Teacher Attitudes, Student Diversity
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Thea Klapp; Alli Klapp; Jan-Eric Gustafsson – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The study aimed to investigate students' psychological, cognitive, and social well-being in 6th Grade and the relations to academic achievement in compulsory school, as measured by grades in 9th Grade. Due to reports from Swedish authorities and research, students' self-reported well-being has decreased during the last decade. Data from the…
Descriptors: Well Being, Grade 6, Grade 9, Academic Achievement
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David Rosenlund; Magnus Persson – Curriculum Journal, 2024
In the study presented in this article, the aim is to further the understanding regarding the differences between pupils (aged 15-16) from schools with low or high socio-economic status (SES), regarding the amount and diversity of content knowledge in history that they have acquired by the end of compulsory schooling. Following a definition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, History Instruction, Socioeconomic Status
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Maria Levlin; Lacey Okonski; Kirk P. H. Sullivan – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This longitudinal case study examines reading difficulties identified in Grade 2 and Grade 6 national assessment test (NAT) scores in relation to Grade 9 NAT in Swedish (L1) and English (L2). A norm-referenced screening was used in Grade 2 to assess word reading and reading comprehension. In line with the simple view of reading, four subgroups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Swedish, English (Second Language)