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Western, Inger M.; Skårdal, Madelene; Ask, Anne M. S.; Øverby, Nina C. – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2017
This study examined the association between dietary habits and behavioural problems at school among adolescents in Norway. Participants in this study included 517 adolescents and 336 of their parents. Students attended schools in the south of Norway, where the study was conducted. In 2012, adolescents completed a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ)…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Behavior Problems, Dietetics, Adolescents
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Borg, Elin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Latent profile analysis was used to identify different categories of students having different "profiles" using self-reported classroom behaviour. Four categories of students with unique classroom behaviour profiles were identified among secondary school students in Oslo, Norway (n = 1570). Analyses examined how classroom behaviour…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Gender Differences, Secondary School Students, Student Behavior
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Vangsnes, Øystein A.; Söderlund, Göran B. W.; Blekesaune, Morten – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The Norwegian language has two written standards, Bokmål (majority variety) and Nynorsk (minority variety), and children receive their schooling in one or other of them. Pupils schooled in Nynorsk acquire the Bokmål variety simultaneously through extracurricular exposure and thus develop what may be termed "bidialectal literacy". In this…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Literacy, Language Variation, Dialects
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Federici, Roger A.; Skaalvik, Einar M.; Tangen, Truls N. – International Education Studies, 2015
This study explores relations between students' perceptions of the classroom goal structures, their personal goal orientations, mathematics anxiety, and help-seeking behavior in mathematics classes. The respondents were 309 Norwegian middle school students. The data were analyzed by means of structural equation modeling (SEM). The analyses…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Goal Orientation, Mathematics Anxiety
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Høigaard, Rune; Kovac, Velibor Bobo; Øverby, Nina Cecilie; Haugen, Tommy – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
This study investigated the effects of proximal and distal constructs on adolescent's academic achievement through self-efficacy. Participants included 482 ninth-and tenth-grade Norwegian students who completed a questionnaire designed to assess school-goal orientations, organizational citizenship behavior, academic self-efficacy, and academic…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, School Psychology, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires
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Hatlevik, Ove Edvard; Guðmundsdóttir, Gréta Björk; Loi, Massimo – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine factors predicting lower secondary school students' digital competence and to explore differences between students when it comes to digital competence. Results from a digital competence test and survey in lower secondary school will be presented. It is important to learn more about and investigate what…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Secondary School Students, Technological Literacy, Competence