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Hietanen, Mika; Svedholm-Häkkinen, Annika M. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study aims to describe the challenges that faculty faced in the transition to distance education in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. The study presents the results from a nationwide questionnaire, answered by 1,963 individuals, concerning the transition among university faculty in Sweden. The results highlight the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Adjustment (to Environment), Distance Education
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Karlsson Häikiö, Tarja – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2022
The article problematizes conditions for visual arts education in Swedish compulsory school. This, by discussing the syllabus for visual arts (Sw. Bild) and through giving examples of teaching in the subject, based on interviews with visual arts teachers, carried out in connection with the production of two Assessment Guides on behalf of The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Arts, Art Education, Course Descriptions
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Boström, Erika; Palm, Torulf – Assessment Matters, 2019
Formative assessment has been shown to have the power to positively affect student achievement, but professional-development initiatives for teachers to substantially develop their formative assessment practices have been frequently unsuccessful. In this study, a random selection of Year-7 teachers participated in a professional-development…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes
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White, Brian – English Education, 2011
Educational researchers are accustomed to institutional review board (IRB) requirements (e.g., protecting participants) with students often identified as the only "vulnerable population" for IRB purposes. However, as practitioner research has gained more prominence, the vulnerability of teacher-researchers themselves has begun to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Research, Teacher Researchers, Teacher Motivation
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Lundvall, Suzanne; Meckbach, Jane – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: On a normative level as a subject physical education and health seems to adjust rapidly to changes in society, whereas at the practical level it seems receptive to limiting factors such as time, facilities and dominating inherited practices. How can the structuring components and processes relating to the shaping, transformation and…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Physical Education, Educational Practices, Classification