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Arnesen, Anne; Smolkowski, Keith; Ogden, Terje; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2018
This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Elementary Social Behaviour Assessment (ESBA), a teacher-report measure of students' social skills and academic engagement adapted for use in Norwegian schools. At two times, 8 weeks apart, 151 teachers rated 793 students in Grades 1-6 on the ESBA and the Social Skills Rating System…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Behavior Rating Scales
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Heller, Mia C.; Lervåg, Arne; Grøver, Vibeke – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
In this randomized trial study, the authors examined the efficacy of a practitioner partnership language intervention addressing oral language learning (expressive and receptive) in young language-minority learners from multiple-language groups in Norway. Resource teachers in 16 elementary schools implemented the intervention in the first and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Intervention, Norwegian, Language Minorities
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Finne, Johannes N.; Svartdal, Frode – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2017
Social Perception Training (SPT) is a program focused on changing the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in suboptimal social interactions. It is administered with whole class of pupils over ten weeks. No previous studies have evaluated its efficacy. The present study investigated the outcome benefit of the program in 18 primary and…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 9, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Frost, Jørgen; Ottem, Ernst; Hagtvet, Bente E.; Snow, Catherine E. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
In the present study, 81 Norwegian students were taught the meaning of words by the Word Generation (WG) method and 51 Norwegian students were taught by an approach inspired by the Thinking Schools (TS) concept. Two sets of words were used: a set of words to be trained and a set of non-trained control words. The two teaching methods yielded no…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Norwegian, Vocabulary Development, Scores
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Mangen, Anne; Walgermo, Bente R.; Bronnick, Kolbjorn – International Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Objective: To explore effects of the technological interface on reading comprehension in a Norwegian school context. Participants: 72 tenth graders from two different primary schools in Norway. Method: The students were randomized into two groups, where the first group read two texts (1400-2000 words) in print, and the other group read the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Multiple Regression Analysis, Elementary School Students
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Frost, Jørgen; Ottem, Ernst; Snow, Catherine E.; Hagtvet, Bente E.; Lyster, Solveig Alma Helaas; White, Claire – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Two ways of measuring change are presented and compared: A conventional "change score", defined as the difference between scores before and after an interim period, and a process-oriented approach focusing on detailed analysis of conceptually defined response patterns. The validity of the two approaches was investigated. Vocabulary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Scores, Knowledge Level, Vocabulary Development