Browsing The reading centre by Subject "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200"
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Assessing handwriting: a method for detailed analysis of letter-formation accuracy and fluency
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Educationally-oriented measures of handwriting fluency – tasks such as written alphabet recall and sentence copying – conflate graphomotor skill and various higher-level abilities. Direct measurement of pen control when ... -
Children with language difficulties: identification and adapted language provision in Early Childhood Education and Care, and subsequent assessment by the Educational Psychological Service
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We investigated how children with language difficulties are identified, and which adapted provision is given in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) before referrals are made to The Educational Psychological ... -
Developing moral muscle in a literature-based business ethics course
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Moral subjectivity (e.g., reflexivity, perspective-taking) is a necessary condition for moral development. However, widely used approaches to business ethics education, rooted in conceptualizations of ethical development ... -
Exploring associations between supervisory support, teacher burnout and classroom emotional climate: the moderating role of pupil teacher ratio
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In previous studies on classroom emotional climate (CEC), factors related to teacher’s working conditions have rarely been included. Thus, in the current study, we examined associations between supervisory support, teacher ... -
Human Pacemakers and Experiential Reading
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper applies an embodied perspective to the study of reading and has a two-fold aim: (i) to discuss how reading is best understood in terms of cultural-cognitive performance that involves living bodies who actively ... -
In Pursuit of a Multimodal Ensemble in a Stop-motion Animation Movie Created by Six Young Children
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this article, the authors explore the visual and auditive modes in a stop-motion animation movie created by six young children in collaboration with their teacher. Drawing on social semiotic multimodal perspectives as ... -
Is a faster pace of letter instruction associated with other teaching practices?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The past few years have seen a shift towards a faster pace of letter instruction in Norwegian firstgrade classrooms. Introducing the letters faster has the potential to alter teaching practices more generally, not only by ... -
Key Question for Literacy Co-Teachers: What oppertunities do we have together?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Co-teaching offers a unique opportunity space for literacy instruction; however, this opportunity is rarely optimized and the result on students' literacy growth is often unimpressive. We propose that co-teaching is only ... -
Levels of skills and predictive patterns of reading comprehension in bilingual children with an early age of acquisition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Bilingualism appears to be related to poor language and reading comprehension in the instructional language (L2). However, in the long term, an early age of second language acquisition (AoA) may produce higher levels of ... -
Regaining autonomy, competence, and relatedness: Experiences from two Shared Reading groups for people diagnosed with cancer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study explored 12 cancer patients’ experiences from participating in an online and on-site Shared Reading group for 16 weeks in Norway. Shared Reading is a practice in which prose and poetry are read aloud in small ... -
Special education in Norwegian early childhood education and care: a document analysis of special education assistance provided to children with language disorders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study aims to investigate the characteristics of special educational assistance provided to children with language disorders (LDs) attending ordinary early childhood education and care institutions (ECECs) in Norway, ... -
Study Protocol: Text Performers - Using Speech-to-Text Technoøogy to Support Students With Dyslexiab During Text Prodution
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This protocol article describes the background, theoretical framework, and methods for two intervention studies using assistive technology to produce text. The participants will be 15 10–12-year-old students with dyslexia ... -
Teacher relationship skills and student learning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Despite extensive evidence on variation in teacher value-added, we have a limited understanding of why some teachers are more effective in promoting human capital than others. Using rich, high-quality data from Norway, we ... -
Tracking the long-term effects of the Bookstart intervention : Associations with temperament and book-reading habits
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study tested whether Bookstart – a program promoting book reading in infancy – continues to have an impact well into Kindergarten. We distinguished between children who were more or less challenging to read to in ... -
What can Parents’ Self-report of Reading Difficulties Tell Us about Their Children’s Emergent Literacy at School Entry?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Research has linked family risk (FR) of reading difficulties (RD) with children's difficulties in emergent literacy development. This study is the first to apply parents' self-report of RD as a proxy for FR in a large ...