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Thunborg, Camilla; Bron, Agnieszka; Edström, Eva – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2013
Changes in higher education (HE) in Sweden, from elite to mass education, with an increased number of students and institutions, has raised questions about the role of HE in society. Relating to conflicts between discourses of employability, democracy, traditional academic norms and experiences of non-traditional students, the aim of this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Students, Student Experience, Student Motivation
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Svennberg, Lena; Meckbach, Jane; Redelius, Karin – European Physical Education Review, 2014
Research shows that teachers' grading is influenced by non-achievement factors in addition to official criteria, such as knowledge and skills. Some grading criteria are internalised by the teacher, who is sometimes unable to verbalise the criteria used and refers to what is called a "gut feeling". Therefore, transparency, validity and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Grading
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Eklöf, Hanna; Pavešic, Barbara Japelj; Grønmo, Liv Sissel – Applied Measurement in Education, 2014
The purpose of the study was to measure students' reported test-taking effort and the relationship between reported effort and performance on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Advanced mathematics test. This was done in three countries participating in TIMSS Advanced 2008 (Sweden, Norway, and Slovenia), and the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Correlation
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Berglund, Ingrid; Loeb, Ingrid Henning – International Journal of Training Research, 2013
This article builds on results from studies of two new pathways in Swedish upper secondary VET. A major reform was launched in 2011 and the restructuring was presented by the Minister of Education as a "renaissance for VET education". The conclusion of the Upper Secondary Commission is that "students shall be more specialised within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Secondary Education, Educational Change
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Fägerstam, Emilia; Samuelsson, Joakim – Education 3-13, 2014
This study aims to explore the influence of outdoor teaching among students, aged 13, on arithmetic performance and self-regulation skills as previous research concerning outdoor mathematics learning is limited. This study had a quasi-experimental design. An outdoor and a traditional group answered a test and a self-regulation skills questionnaire…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Skill Development, Arithmetic, Junior High School Students
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Boström, Lena; Hallin, Karin – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
The teaching profession has been continually challenged to provide evidence of the effectiveness of teaching and learning methods. Teacher education, as well as nursing education, is currently undergoing reforms in Sweden. At the university where the research was conducted, teaching and nursing programs are two priority educational programs and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Nursing Education, Productivity, Foreign Countries
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Szklarski, Andrzej – Teaching Science, 2011
The purpose of this study is to explore and describe the essence of pupils' experiences of motivation in school. The empirical material has been gathered in Sweden through self-reports and focus groups and analysed by means of an empirical phenomenological method. The research results show that two constituents--interest and progress--are…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Andree, Maria – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
Previous research on science education has described various factors influencing students' participation and produced categorizations of students based on e.g. cultural background. In this article it is argued, theoretically and empirically, that an understanding of students' participation in science education needs to begin with an analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Science Education, Cultural Background
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Schwartz, Anneli – Education Inquiry, 2014
This article presents research from a school in a multicultural suburb on the outskirts of a large Swedish conurbation that used a particular pedagogy with strong classification and framing to address an identified problem of academic failure amongst its pupils. The analysis shows that the pedagogy was chosen based on an assumption that pupils…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Suburbs, Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods
Mahieu, Ron; Wolming, Simon – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2013
Due to societal changes there is a growing need for distant and adult learning. The reason to participate in education and the choices that students make may differ. In this study the factors age, gender, rate of studies and parenthood have been analysed in order to see how these relate to different motivational factors for choosing a web-based…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Web Based Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Eklof, Hanna – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2010
An achievement test score can be viewed as a joint function of skill and will, of knowledge and motivation. However, when interpreting and using test scores, the "will" part is not always acknowledged and scores are mostly interpreted and used as pure measures of student knowledge. This paper argues that students' motivation to do their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Scores, Test Wiseness
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Weurlander, Maria; Soderberg, Magnus; Scheja, Max; Hult, Hakan; Wernerson, Annika – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
This study aims to provide a greater insight into how formative assessments are experienced and understood by students. Two different formative assessment methods, an individual, written assessment and an oral group assessment, were components of a pathology course within a medical curriculum. In a cohort of 70 students, written accounts were…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Student Attitudes
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Schwartz, Anneli – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
This article is based on research in an ongoing ethnographic investigation of schooling in a multiethnic, multiracial school on the outskirts of a major Swedish conurbation in an area of multidimensional poverty. First, it analyses the use of an individuating, visible pedagogy, which contains a large number of routines that are designed and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Poverty
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Fägerstam, Emilia – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2014
This is a longitudinal case study where teachers from different disciplines were interviewed before and after an outdoor teaching project in a Swedish junior high school. The school grounds were used regularly as an area for teaching and learning in different subjects. The purpose of this study was to explore how teachers from different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Interviews
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Chinn, Pauline W. U. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
Maria Andree focuses on an immigrant student whose error in a laboratory activity leads to a novel, colorful outcome that she excitedly shares with peers. After engaging in class activities for a few weeks she returns to her earlier dislike of science, saying: "I hate science, particularly Chemistry." The classroom activity system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Class Activities, Cultural Pluralism, Learning Theories
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