Learning for an unknown context: a comparative case study on some Swedish and Polish Political Science students' experiences of the transition from university to working life     

Kristina Johansson  Lucyna Kopciwicz  Lars Owe Dahlgren 《Compare》2008,38(2):219-231

This comparative small‐scale (Swedish and Polish sample) longitudinal qualitative study investigates political science students' conceptions of their studies, their future profession and their workplace learning. The students (10 in Sweden and 11 in Poland) were interviewed twice, first when they were at the end of their studies and a second time when they had worked for approximately one year. The questions asked were designed to try to understand the transition from higher education to work life. The results indicate that they bring with them a set of academic generic skills from their education when they enter working life. Furthermore, the students in the two countries have very different perceptions of the subject Political Science, and the expectations they have regarding their studies and future working life also differ considerably.  相似文献   

Families' digital media use: Intentions,rules and activities     

Lars Eichen  Sigrid Hackl-Wimmer  Marina Tanja Waltraud Eglmaier  Helmut Karl Lackner  Manuela Paechter  Karoline Rettenbacher  Christian Rominger  Catherine Walter-Laager 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2021,52(6):2162-2177

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Students as Journeymen between Cultures of Higher Education and Work: A Comparative European Project on the Transition from Higher Education to Working Life1     

Lars Owe Dahlgren  Gunnar Handal  Tomasz Szkudlarek  Manfred Bayer 《Higher Education in Europe》2007,32(4):305-316

This paper addresses the feasibility of higher education in relation to the demands of work life. The research is a comparative study involving four European countries: Sweden, Norway, Poland, and Germany. The research focuses on the view of freshmen, senior students and later graduates in Psychology and Political Science. Data were obtained by semi‐structured interviews, which were subjected to qualitative analyses. The results indicate that higher education, with some exceptions, seems to produce a discipline‐based identity among the students. These findings may be indicative of the value for employability of classical academic generic skills.  相似文献   

Before,During, and After Examination: Development of Prospective Preschool Teachers’ Mathematics-Related Enjoyment and Self-Efficacy     

Sigrid Blömeke  Oliver Thiel  Lars Jenßen 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2019,63(4):506-519

This article examines the stability of Norwegian prospective preschool teachers’ enjoyment of mathematics and their mathematics-related self-efficacy before, during, and after a teacher-education examination. In addition, the stability of the two constructs across countries was examined through a comparison with Germany. The data revealed partial stability (technically speaking, metric invariance) of enjoyment but not of self-efficacy. Self-efficacy increased significantly before and after the examination without decreasing enjoyment, which may be a result of increased learning time. Prior mathematical knowledge predicted the level and development of enjoyment and self-efficacy in both countries. Many Norwegian students reported low mathematics-related enjoyment and self-efficacy, including negative developments. It may be important to provide positive experiences of mathematical activities during preschool teacher education.  相似文献   

Structural and linguistic variables that contribute to difficulty in the judgment of simple verbal deductive arguments     

Lars C. Jansson 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》1974,5(1):493-505

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Jumping to Conclusions—The PISA Knee-Jerk: Some Remarks on the Current Economic-Educational Discourse     

Uwe H. Bittlingmayer  Lars Heinemann  Hans-Georg Kotthoff 《欧洲教育》2016,48(4):294-305

Ever since PISA studies have been constantly present in mainstream media, a close relation between academic achievement and economic outcome has been routinely presumed. This essay takes a closer look at some of the most common lines of argument, then goes on to outline a critique of the assumptions underlying the alleged causal relationship between educational achievement and macro-economic performance, bringing out a lack of complexity in said assumptions, as well as (polemically) showing up their conformist bias.  相似文献   

Online vs. offline course evaluation revisited: testing the invariance of a course evaluation questionnaire using a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis framework     

Laupper  Ellen  Balzer  Lars  Berger  Jean-Louis 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2020,32(4):481-498

Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability - Survey-based formats of assessing teaching quality in higher education are widely used and will likely continue to be used by higher...  相似文献   

Introducing teachers to new semiotic tools for writing instruction and writing assessment: consequences for students’ writing proficiency     

Kjell Lars Berge  Synnøve Matre  Randi Solheim  Lars S. Evensen  Hildegunn Otnes 《Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice》2019,26(1):6-25

This article reports consequences for student writing quality based on a long-term professional learning project. Project teachers, representing all school subjects in grades 3–7, were presented with a writing construct, ‘Wheel of Writing’, and norms of expectation for writing proficiency. Participating teachers used the writing construct and norms as a basis for writing instruction and writing assessment. The project was conducted in 24 schools across Norway. 3088 students from 20 project schools participated. Two hundred and thirty three students from 4 schools were used as a comparison group. The investigation showed that students in primary school improved their writing quality significantly. Students in lower secondary school did not. However, there was substantial variation in writing quality effects between schools, classes, and individual students. For instance at a number of schools, project students from lower secondary school improved their writing quality significantly. The article discusses potential explanations of the effects.  相似文献   

Creativity:What Is It? Can You Assess It? Can It Be Taught?   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Lars Lindstrm 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》2006,25(1):53-66

This article takes the subject of visual arts in Sweden as the point of departure in a discussion of how, with the help of portfolios, assessments may extend to include both the unpredictable and the ambiguous. The notion that assessments of learning outcomes must be either limited to superficial knowledge or completely arbitrary is shown to be a misconception. The author has made a study of the progression of young people's creativity in the visual arts from preschool to upper secondary school. The assessment was based on both product criteria and process criteria (investigative work, inventiveness, ability to use models, capacity for self‐assessment). The materials assessed were portfolios of work containing sketches, drafts and finished works, log books, sources of inspiration and videotaped interviews with the students. Is there any progression in students' visual design, in their ability to work independently and assess their work? What is the degree of correlation in the assessments of different judges of student portfolios? These are some of the questions that this article attempts to answer, which concludes with a discussion of how schools can build a culture of learning that fosters the creative powers of young people.  相似文献   

Development of Adjustment Problems in Girls: What Syndromes Emerge?     

Margit Wângby  Lars R. Bergman  & David Magnusson 《Child development》1999,70(3):678-699

The development of a broad spectrum of adjustment problems in girls was studied longitudinally from late childhood to early adulthood. A specific interest concerned how well the externalizing-internalizing distinction could explain the data. The sample consisted of about 500 Swedish girls, reasonably representative of the general population. Variable-oriented methods were complemented with person-oriented methods to study syndrome formation at the level of the individual. The results suggested a rather diversified pattern of multi-problem syndromes in late childhood, whereas the syndrome structure in early adolescence was organized around a differentiation between girls with externalizing adjustment problems and girls with peer problems. An externalizing syndrome was found to be stable between late childhood and early adolescence, increasing the risk of severe maladjustment in adulthood. Internalizing problems showed no clear-cut continuity with adult maladjustment. Results are discussed in relation to the externalizing-internalizing distinction, which to some extent is called in question.  相似文献