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Cognitive predictors of shallow-orthography spelling speed and accuracy in 6th grade children
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-31)Spelling accuracy and time course was investigated in a sample of 100 Norwegian 6th grade students completing a standardized spelling-to-dictation task. Students responded by keyboard with accurate recordings of response-onset ... -
Collaboration and communication in blended learning environments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Blended learning environments have become increasingly common during the past few years, and frequent access to digital technologies has influenced many areas of learning and classroom interaction. This paper investigates ... -
Colonial entanglements in extinction narratives: The afterlives of two Saint Lucia giant rice rats
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)European colonialism exposed islands to significant threatening processes that drove species to or near extinction. At the same time, they were regular sites of collecting living animals especially because of their high ... -
Comics in Norwegian upper secondary EFL classrooms – Teacher’s attitudes to comics and how their textbooks present them.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05)The aim of the present master’s thesis was to find out how a selected group of teachers view comics in general, and to look at the use of comics in their textbooks. Three textbooks, Targets, Gateways YF and Access, were ... -
Commentary on Highly Successful Female Educational Psychologists: Equity and Intersectionality in Success Definitions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-01)Despite the international focus on validation and success indicators of academic work across disciplines, examples of accomplished educational psychologists and their personal stories have been limited in the literature. ... -
Common Practice Elements in Treatment Programs for Adolescents with Externalizing and Internalizing Problems: A Meta-Analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-08)There is a pressing need for effective interventions targeting mental disorders for service-involved youth across child welfare, correctional and mental health residential settings. Identifying effective common practice ... -
Comparative analysis of western and Russian news framing of the Ukraine and Iraq war.
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A Comparative Study of English as Second Language in Nepal and Norway (Using Curriculum of Secondary School)
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)This research aims to compares the English subject curriculum for primary and secondary school level in Nepal and Norway focusing on oral competence. Curriculum theory, as well as second language learning theory, support ... -
A comparative study of Norwegian and Russian EFL teachers’ approaches to teaching English literacy at upper secondary school.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-11)Abstract This study explores the ways Russian and Norwegian upper secondary EFL teachers approach teaching English language literacy. The main aim of the thesis is to investigate differences and similarities between ... -
Comparing comprehension of a long text read in print book and on Kindle: Where in the text and when in the story?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02)Digital reading devices such as Kindle differ from paper books with respect to the kinesthetic and tactile feedback provided to the reader, but the role of these features in reading is rarely studied empirically. This ... -
Comparing The Effectiveness of Content-Based Language Instruction and Communicative Language Teaching in Improving the Reading Comprehension Skills of Iranian Intermediate English Learners
(Master thesis, 2023)This study compares the effectiveness of content-based language instruction (CBLI) and communicative language teaching (CLT) in improving the reading comprehension skills of 60 primary and secondary school EFL students in ... -
A Comparison of Children’s Reading on Paper Versus Screen: A Meta-Analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This meta-analysis examines the inconsistent findings across experimental studies that compared children’s learning outcomes with digital and paper books. We quantitatively reviewed 39 studies reported in 30 articles (n = ... -
Compensation of overall physical activity in (pre)adolescent girls – the CReActivity project
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)According to the ActivityStat hypothesis more physical activity (PA) in one timespan is compensated by increased sedentary time (ST) in the following timespan and vice versa to maintain an overall stable PA level. Until ... -
Competing ideas of 'natural' in a dam removal controversy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-10)In spite of general support for removal of dam structures within the ecological sciences community, local residents sometimes contest dam removals. This article examines the competing ideas of 'natural' and 'nature' that ... -
Completion of upper secondary education: Predictions of the psychosocial learning environment and academic achievement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-08)Background Lack of upper secondary school completion (dropout) is a serious concern. Psychosocial factors of the learning environment, such as perceived emotional support from teachers and loneliness among peers remain ... -
Compositions for emancipation and autonomy: Distorted syntax and poisoning in Shakespeare’s and Gilman’s critique of the marginalized role of women
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)This thesis is a study of female characterization through dialogue in The Tempest (1611) and a close reading of The Yellow Wall-paper (1892), which explores how these texts problematize socio-cultural traditions in the ... -
Conceptions of teaching and justice as pivotal to mathematics teacher educators’ thinking about mathematical knowledge for teaching
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Recent scholarship has explored mathematical demands faced by mathematics teacher educators and ways to support their development, but little attention has been given to the basic question of how mathematics teacher educators ... -
Connection between refugee housing policy and belonging in Norway First Examiner:
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-05)Since the 60’s, the number of refugees and asylum seekers in Norway has increased, resulting into more specific integration policies towards refugees by the Norwegian government. One part of the integration policy is housing ... -
Connections to the Past: The Importance of Consciousness and Memory in Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Abstract: In this article, we go through and conduct multiple textual analyses to find out if George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four contain enough textual evidence to conclude on the question: Is the importance ... -
Considering perspectives of others: A case study of intercultural learning among English language learners in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The concept of perspective is embedded within the studies of culture and language, especially with regard to an intercultural orientation within EFL teaching and learning. However, researchers have rarely explored how ...