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Education
Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
Trude Nilsen
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Measuring Equity Across the Nordic Education Systems—Conceptual and Methodological Choices as Implications for Educational Policies
Ever since international large-scale student assessments made it possible to rank countries according to their equitability, Nordic countries have topped these rankings. Nevertheless, a decline in equity has b...
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Can Teachers’ Instruction Increase Low-SES Students’ Motivation to Learn Mathematics?
Students’ motivation in mathematics has been shown to predict their achievement and whether they pursue a later career in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). To sustain equity in educatio...
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Teachers’ Role in Enhancing Equity—A Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling with Mediated Moderation
Even though equity is an important aim for the Nordic countries, for many of these countries, the effect of a student’s home background on their achievement seems to increase over time. If the aim is to reduce...
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Final Remarks
This book contributes to educational policy, the field of educational effectiveness and practice. In this chapter, the findings from the five studies are summarized and discussed. After a comprehensive examina...
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The Impact of School Climate and Teacher Quality on Mathematics Achievement: A Difference-in-Differences Approach
The aim of the study was to investigate causal effects of aspects of teacher quality and school climate on mathematics achievement through use of country-level longitudinal data. By investigating within-countr...
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Conceptual Framework and Methodology of This Report
In this volume, five separate studies examine differing aspects of relations between teacher quality, instructional quality and learning outcomes across countries, taking into account context characteristics s...
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The Relations Among School Climate, Instructional Quality, and Achievement Motivation in Mathematics
Instructional quality is considered to be an important classroom variable, as it is significantly related to student achievement and motivation in mathematics. Existing studies in educational effectiveness fur...
