Effective and Equitable Teacher Practice in Mathematics and Science Education
A Nordic Perspective Across Time and Groups of Students
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Meta-analyses and international large-scale assessments (ILSA) are key sources for informing educational policy, research, and practice. While many critical research questions could be addressed by drawing evi...
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This chapter introduces the importance of promoting fair, effective, and equitable teacher practice for both individual students and society in general. It presents the rationale, aims, and organizational stru...
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This chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and its design. We discuss the various aspects of the methodology used in this book, such as th...
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Understanding changes in student learning outcomes over time is important for educational policy. In view of the fact that teachers and their teaching are key to student learning, the present chapter investiga...
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This final chapter discusses the findings from the empirical chapters of the book that focus on different aspects of teacher practice: what teachers teach (content coverage), how teachers teach (teaching quality)...
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Teacher practice encompasses a wide range of aspects pertaining to the work and responsibilities of teachers within an academic setting. This book focuses specifically on three fundamental aspects of teacher p...
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Opportunities to learn (OTL) are pivotal in sha** student achievements. A central OTL inquiry is whether the assessed content has been taught in the classroom and to what extent. This study focuses on conten...
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A Nordic Perspective Across Time and Groups of Students
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Gaining knowledge of what contextual factors may contribute to changes in student achievement across cycles of international large-scale assessments (ILSA), is important for educational policy and practice. Ad...
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The prerequisite for meaningful comparisons of educational inequality indicators across immigration status is the comparability of socioeconomic status (SES) measures. The Programme for International Student A...
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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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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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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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In the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2015, the educational systems from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium (Flanders), Germany, and Norway included scales capturing three dimensions of instru...
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Relationships Across Countries, Cohorts and Time
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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 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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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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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...