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No Name, No Game: Challenges to Use of Collaborative Digital Textbooks
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Grönlund, Åke; Wiklund, Matilda; Böö, Rickard – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Collaborative digital textbooks--comprehensive materials covering entire curriculums--are developing from being books in pdf format to becoming collaborative digital environments where teachers and students can communicate, engage in feedback and discussions, share and manipulate materials, test knowledge, and monitor results. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Educational Technology
Longitudinal Analysis of Links between Bullying Victimization and Psychosomatic Maladjustment in Swedish Schoolchildren
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Hellfeldt, Karin; Gill, Peter Edward; Johansson, Björn – Journal of School Violence, 2018
Cross-sectional studies of bullying mask variability in categories of and persistence of bullying victimization. Longitudinal, individual-level data offers a greater insight into schoolchildren's psychosomatic maladjustment as a consequence of bullying. Swedish schoolchildren (n = 3,349), with unique identifiers, in 44 schools (4th-9th grade),…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Victims, Psychosomatic Disorders, Foreign Countries
A Case Study on Pupils' Perceptions of Attending a Choral Class: You Get to Know One Another and Reach a Community
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Ehrlin, Anna – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2016
Music activities can have a positive impact on pupils' schooling. It is therefore interesting to obtain more knowledge about pupils' perceptions of different kinds of music activities in school and how these activities affect their schooling. The study was conducted in Sweden at a municipal elementary school where pupils are offered choral lessons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Singing, Student Attitudes
Cultivating Awareness at School. Effects on Effortful Control, Peer Relations and Well-Being at School in Grades 5, 7, and 8
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Terjestam, Yvonne; Bengtsson, Hans; Jansson, Alexander – School Psychology International, 2016
Effects of a mindfulness-based program, Compassion and Attention in the Schools (Compas), were studied in 358 pupils in grades 5, 7, and 8 in Sweden. An experimental group undertook Compas practices in class three times a week during an eight-week period. A control group undertook content area academic lessons . Pre-/post-intervention analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
Self-Reported Peer Victimization: Concordance and Discordance between Measures of Bullying and Peer Aggression among Swedish Adolescents
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Hellström, Lisa; Beckman, Linda; Hagquist, Curt – Journal of School Violence, 2013
The current study examined concordance and discordance between a measure of bullying and measures of peer aggression with respect to the number of students identified as victims. Swedish adolescents (N = 1,760) completed a web-based questionnaire. A measure of bullying and measures of peer aggression were compared in order to elucidate the unique…
Descriptors: Victims, Peer Relationship, Bullying, Aggression
Teachers' Views on Risk Factors for Problematic School Absenteeism in Swedish Primary School Students
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Gren-Landell, Malin; Ekerfelt Allvin, Cornelia; Bradley, Maria; Andersson, Maria; Andersson, Gerhard – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2015
In the present online survey, 158 teachers in regular and special education teaching in grades six to nine were asked to rate the importance of probable reasons for problematic school absenteeism. On average, the teachers estimated that among their students, 19 students had presented with problematic school absenteeism over the last five years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Attendance Patterns, Online Surveys