44 projects

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Bidrag til Education for Tomorrow - NORDFORSK samarbeid - FINNUT

Awarded: NOK 25.7 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2025

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

International Study of City Youth (ISCY): Preparing urban youth for further study and careers. A comparative project in 12 cities

ISCY - International Study of City Youth. Preparing urban youth for further study and careers. ISCY - International Study of City Youth is a comprehensive, comparative project in 11 cities around the world. The project has a longitudinal design, following the students from their last year in ...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Better provision for Norway's children in ECEC: A study of children's wellbeing and development in ECEC, and new tool for Quality Evaluation

Better Provision for Norway?s Children in ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) (BePro) aimed to investigate the quality of Norwegian ECEC and the relationship between structural factors and organization, educational processes, children's well-being and their development and learning. The pr...

Awarded: NOK 20.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2020

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Higher eduction learning outcomes: Learning outcomes transforming Higher Education?

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Utredning om forskning på voksnes læring

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Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Measuring competence development in vocational education and training (MECVET)

Background. Competence based curricula and instructional models have changed vocational education and training in several ways both in Norway and in other countries: Teaching, learning trajectories and research on assessment and learning. Among these initiatives is the development of new tools ...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Akershus

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Horizontal governance and learning dynamics in higher education

In the HORIZON project change dynamics of Norwegian higher education has been studied, against the background of the further development of the European and Norwegian knowledge societies. Main aspects examined are the development and coordination of Norwegian higher education policies in various ...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Qualification and social inclusion in upper secondary VET - Longitudinal studies on gendered education and marginalized groups

At the end of compulsory education in Norway, all students have the right to upper secondary education. Particularly in vocational education and training (VET), the rate of non-completion is alarmingly high. Previous research on non-completion mechanisms generally discern between mechanisms relat...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Developing national standards for the assessment of writing. A tool for teaching and learning

Developing national standards for the assessment of writing. A tool for teaching and learning («The Norms project») involves writing researchers from four Norwegian universities. In addition, the research group collaborates with writing and assessment researchers from NZ, USA, Sweden, and UK. ...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

The influence of child care and home environment on learning and social functioning in transition to school and early school age

The project "The influence of child care and home environment on learning and social functioning in transition to school and early school age" has been conducted at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development, Unirand, University of Oslo, in collaboration with Buskerud and Vestfold Univ...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Two Ways to Increase Student Interest for Mathematics and Science in Education

The project examined how to increase interest in mathematics at middle school. We tested three interventions: (1) Example choice, developed by the PI and his colleagues at the University of Bergen. Students can choose the most interesting among several examples in which a mathematical task is emb...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Vestland

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Early Childhood Education and Care: A Quantitative Research Program

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Educational Trajectories: Choices, Constraints and Contexts

A study sendt to an international journal examines whether a high concentration of immigrant students leads to lower completion rates or poorer exam results for native students in Norwegian upper secondary education. Norway is an interesting case for several reasons, such as being a recent immigr...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Legal Standards and Professional Judgment in School Leadership

The project examines how school leaders on multiple levels interpret and enforce regulation aiming at ensuring adaptive education and protecting each student's right to a good psycho-social learning environment and special needs education as required. The research concerns the relation between th...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2017

Location: Oslo

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Portfolio practices in higher education in Norway following the Quality Reform; -diffusion characteristics and learning achievement

This application refers to topic B in the announcement from 'Utdanning 2020', Assessment methods, learning processes and learning achievement. Previous studies conducted in connection with the evaluation of the Quality Reform documented a proliferation o f portfolios in Norwegian higher educatio...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Teaching and learning in higher education. From policies to educational practises in the digital era.

This project examines the relationship between learning aims, subject content and digital teaching, working, and assessment methods in higher education. The project is divided into two sub-studies and these have in common that they both focus on pedagogic al and didactical aspects of digital lear...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Completing a higher education in Norway: What it takes for the individuals and the universities?

The pre-project aims to review recent research from Norway, the Nordic countries, Australia and the United States on higher education dropouts and incompletion. These countries have been chosen because they represent two types of social systems, i.e., soc ialist welfare states and capitalist neol...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Writing a Wikipedia article as course assignment

The basic idea of the proposed project consists in asking students to create quality-assured Wikipedia articles in Norwegian as part of their course assignments in higher education. The quality will be assessed and improved by the lecturers before the art icle is uploaded to Wikipedia. Writing qu...

Awarded: NOK 63,000

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Vestland

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Learning about Quality

The proposed pre-project takes as point of departure that learning outcomes can be defined and understood in different ways. It is argued that multiple perspectives on how learning outcomes are interpreted could be enriching for Norwegian higher education - especially with respect to the on-goin...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Utvikling av en utdanningsportal ved NSD - Samfinansiering med PRAKUT prosjektnr. 210009

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Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Preparing for school in Norwegian daycare centers

Through several research articles, chapters and master theses the Skoleklar project has illuminated childrens development in transition between daycare (barnehage) and school. Parental background seem to be related to both vocabulary and early mathematics during these years. Parental background a...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Rogaland

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Preventing Later Literacy Failure in Kindergarten: A longitudinal randomized-trials study of oral language development and intervention

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Oslo

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Day-care effects on children's competence and adjustment: A longitudinal, multilevel and multi-informant community study

The data collection startet in 2007 and 995 4-year olds were examined. Data collections have since then proceeded according to schedule with bi-annual assessments, and the 4th round of data collection was finalized before summer 2015 when 702 children and their families participated, i.e. partici...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Curriculum development in Norwegian Vocational Education, through new relations between work life and educational institutions

The theme of this pre-project is collaboration on curriculum development between VET institutions at high school level, work life, and vocational teacher education. The development of new and specific forms of collaboration between these parties is suppos ed to be necessary to obtain relevant sub...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Akershus

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

STAYER: developing models for future vocational teaching and learning practices

There is a growing recognition that there is a lack of up-close studies on teaching and learning in the field of vocational education and training. This is also true for research on vocational education/training and technology. The lack of detailed studie s is a major problem since trade branche...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Transforming vocational education and training - a collaborative research proposal

The prelimenary project aims at developing a complete research project integrating theme C (management, administration and organisation) in the call for proposals with issues from theme A and B (content and learning processes). The general idea is to look at the transformation processes of Norwe...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Vestland

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Balancing theoretical education and practical training - Recruitment and completion of VET and the transition to work

Vocational education and training (VET) in Norway balances between theoretical education on the one side and practical training on the other, in the belief that both elements are important for building competence. In addition, practical training is believ ed to be important for students' motivati...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Pre-ALIVE: Pre-project for Assessment for learning in vocational education and training (ALIVE).

Pre-ALIVE is pre-project for a main project "Assessment for learning in vocational education and training" (ALIVE). In recent years different European research initiatives coordinated by German scholars, have been taken to develop models and tools for lar ge scale assessment for VET ("VET-PISA",...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Akershus

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Pre-project: Vocational education and training - challenges in the northern context

The background for this pre-project is that the dropout rates in VET and in apprenticeship training are higher in the northernmost counties than in most other counties in Norway. The main question posed is therefore; Why do so many pupils in apprenticeshi p training in the north fail to complete ...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

U2020-Norsk utdanningsforskning 2009-2018

Educational theory about society's educational system

The overarching goal of the project is to establish an international network and develop an application for an integrated project: Educational theory about society's educational system The topic for this preliminary project of the Educational theory abou t society's educational theory can be sum...

Awarded: NOK 0.35 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

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