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Muhrman, Karolina; Andersson, Per – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2022
The aim of this study is to describe and analyse how municipal adult education (MAE) in Sweden is enacted at the intersection of course organisation, student selection and course content. For this analysis, the data consist of a nationwide survey sent to Swedish municipalities, interviews with school leaders from 20 municipalities and in-depth…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Commercialization, Foreign Countries, Municipalities
Liljenberg, Mette; Andersson, Klas – Education Inquiry, 2021
This study addresses a fundamental but neglected aspect of efforts to ensure quality and improvement in a decentralised school system: the relationship between the local education authority (LEA) and local school principals. Empirically, it is based on analysis of relevant documents and interviews with key actors in a Swedish LEA (a municipality),…
Descriptors: Correlation, Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Educational Quality
Vaculíková, Jitka; Kalenda, Jan; Kocvarová, Ilona – Cogent Education, 2023
Non-formal adult education (NFE) provides adults of all ages with the opportunity to acquire skills, knowledge, and expertise. However, there is currently a lack of validated instruments that measure the factors of NFE non-participation in European countries, particularly their barriers. One exception is the Non-participation in Non-formal…
Descriptors: Validity, Cross Cultural Studies, Informal Education, Adult Education
Warfvinge, Per; Löfgreen, Jennifer; Andersson, Karim; Roxå, Torgny; Åkerman, Christina – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a global disruption to higher education, especially in engineering education, where many teaching and learning activities are difficult or impossible to conduct online. This study examines the changes in the students' experiences of this disruption using a 26-item process-oriented course experience questionnaire (CEQ)…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Attitudes, Student Experience
Mufic, Johanna; Fejes, Andreas – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
This article focuses on how 'problems' regarding quality in adult education are constituted as particular sorts of 'problems'. The analysis takes its point of departure in a poststructural analytic strategy called 'What's the problem represented to be?'. The material analysed consists of various policy documents concerning contemporary Swedish…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Barriers
Segerholm, Christina; Lindgren, Joakim; Novak, Judit – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The rise in the use of scientific evidence as a basis for educational policymaking has been a noticeable feature globally. In this study, we describe and discuss how educational research is used to make policy and governing evidence-based. To illustrate this, we use the Swedish Schools Inspectorate (SSI) as a case and focus on two of the processes…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Administration
Evertsson, Jakob – History of Education, 2022
This paper examines the role of school inspection in the early (1861-1910) professionalisation of Swedish elementary school teachers. International research on school inspection has focused on educational reform, but rarely on the role of inspection in teachers' theoretical and practical development. The paper's theoretical assumption is that…
Descriptors: Inspection, Institutional Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Intervention
Bejnö, Hampus; Bölte, Sven; Linder, Nina; Långh, Ulrika; Odom, Samuel L.; Roll-Pettersson, Lise – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
In Sweden, young autistic children typically attend community-based preschool programs, which may not be adapted to their needs. In the current study, stakeholders to autistic children receiving Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention were interviewed following a quasi-randomized study (#NCT03634761) aimed at improving the preschool program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Education
Lundqvist, Johanna; Larsdotter Bodin, Ulrika – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
The Inclusive Classroom Profile (ICP) is a structured observation instrument. It has been developed to support high-quality early childhood inclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities. The aim of this study is to examine the cultural validity of the instrument in Swedish preschools and to investigate its perceived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Classroom Observation Techniques, Profiles
Lohmander, Karlsson Lohmander; Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2020
Since the beginning of the 1970s, quality early childhood education and care (preschool) has been a national priority in Sweden. Over the years, policy changes such as the marketisation of the welfare system with increased state regulation and a focus on cost-effectiveness and performativity have resulted in modifications to the services offered.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Large Group Instruction, Educational Environment
Kirikkaleli, Dervis; Ertugrul, Hasan Murat; Sari, Arif; Ozun, Alper; Kiral, Halis – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The purpose of this study is to determine the direction of causality between the quality of education and technological development for the selected Northern European countries over the period 2006-2017. To this end, we employ the bootstrap panel causality test. The findings of our study indicate that the quality of education leads to changes in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation, Technology Uses in Education
Lind, Patrik; Mellander, Erik – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
We examine if the OECD survey of adult skills, PIAAC, can provide information about the relative quality of education and training in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We find that the average population scores are inappropriate while the mean scores of natives well approximate the skills of individuals that had the chance to attend the…
Descriptors: Scores, Problem Solving, Information Technology, Immigrants
Håkansson, Jan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
This article presents the results of a qualitative study with the aim of contributing to an understanding of preschool managers' leadership in systematic quality work in a Swedish context. In line with the Education Act and the preschool curriculum, systematic quality work is compulsory in all Swedish preschools. This consists of several steps,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Administrators, Leadership
Koçak, Deniz; Türe, Hasan; Atan, Murat – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
Education is the core of the factors that improved people for a better lifestyle and increases the level of society' development. Quality education is one of the most vital goals of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) due to actualizing these factors. Using relational network data envelopment analysis (DEA), which have three interrelated…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Measurement, Data Analysis, Educational Quality
Rubio-Alcalá, Fernando D., Ed.; Coyle, Do, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2021
This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of bilingual education found in internationalised higher education institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse and identify the many factors that account for quality multilingual degree programmes. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Bilingual Education, Educational Quality, International Education