Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundAcademic reading and writing are seen as self-evident literacy competences in most contemporary higher educations, however, whether students also are introduced to professional literacy of relevance for dentistry during their education is a question. The purpose of this study is to analyze one of the Swedish dental programmes, with respec...
Background: Due to declining student ratings, a new teaching method was applied to a course in gastrointestinal diseases for undergraduate medical students. Problem-based learning was replaced with our new concept, consisting of a theory week with traditional lectures and case seminars. Methods: In this retrospective study, we compared student-rati...
In mathematics education, there is general agreement regarding the significance of mathematical literacy (also quantitative literacy or numeracy) for informed citizenship, which often requires evaluating the use of numbers in public policy discourse. We hold that such an evaluation must accommodate the necessarily fragile relation between the infor...
Published in Frontiers in Education
Although motivation has been shown to have substantial influence on learning, the relative significance of Students’ motivational characteristics, compared to other school-related factors, for student learning and performance is still unclear. Furthermore, knowledge about the relative importance of different situational variables for predicting the...
Published in SN Social Sciences
In most subject areas, the proportion of women PhD students is around 50%. Mathematics differs despite minimal differences between boys’ and girls’ school achievements. In this paper, we show, drawing on Swedish data from the last 45 years, that low female participation in mathematical PhDs is due to low participative growth rates rather than histo...
Lexikalische Strategien sind für das Wortschatzlernen von großer Bedeutung, vor allem für Studierende, die im Studium autonom lernen und verschiedene lexikalische Strategien kennen und beherrschen müssen. Die Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit den lexikalischen Strategien, der Entwicklung der lexikalischen Kompetenz und der Problematik des Wortschat...
This study investigates how teachers and students in a Swedish upper secondary school experience the sudden transition to teaching and learning English as a second language online. Students and teachers have answered questions in online questionnaires and the answers were analyzed and compared to previous research and secondary literature. The resu...
Existen muchos estudios sobre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas, pero la cuestión de la enseñanza de una lengua de herencia y las necesidades específicas de hablantes de herencia son temas menos explorados. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo investigar cuáles estructuras gramaticales presentan más dificultades entre el contrast...
Denna kunskapsöversikt undersöker hur lärare och elever ser på betyg och bedömning i skolämnet idrott och hälsa. Syftet med kunskapsöversikten är att undersöka vad elever och lärare ställs inför när det kommer till betyg och bedömning i ämnet idrott och hälsa. Frågeställningen vi utgått ifrån i översikten har varit: Vad är svårigheterna och möjligh...
