Enligt styrdokument och vägledningar ska elever i sina gymnasiearbeten behärska vetenskapliga teorier och metoder. Det kan gå på naturprogrammet, men är hart när omöjligt på samhällsprogrammet, visar en ny avhandling.

Vad händer med växter som har varit i rymden? Det ska elever i Sverige undersöka genom ett skolprojekt där solrosfrön som varit i rymden planteras och jämförs med vanliga frön. Skolor har fortfarande möjlighet att delta i experimentet.

När forskare har följt Malmöbor födda i början av 1990-talet under tio år har de sett att skillnader i inkomst mellan kvinnor och män är stora och växande – oavsett utbildningsnivå. "Att skillnaderna var så stora överraskade mig", säger Jonas Olofsson, professor vid Malmö universitet.

Grades are expected to motivate students to perform well in school. However, the connection between grades and student motivation and achievement is not clear. Understanding the relations between grades and student motivation and achievement requires knowledge about students' experiences of being graded, which is underreported in research. This study uses large-scale data to investigate Swedish…

Gymnasieelever upplever betyg både som en drivkraft och som en källa till stress. Flickor beskriver oftare än pojkar att betyg väcker negativa känslor, och elever som upplever betyg som jobbiga har i genomsnitt sämre skolresultat. Det visar en ny studie från Göteborgs universitet.

The main aim of this study was to investigate whether the experience of academic boredom predicts adolescents’ academic achievement in the context of Norwegian upper secondary school, and the extent to which perceived autonomy granting could be indirectly associated with academic achievement via reduced boredom. (pdf)

Girls appear to benefit more from classroom-based assessment, whereas boys achieve comparatively higher results under blind grading. However, the existing knowledge base is limited, as previous studies rely on older datasets, focus primarily on compulsory schooling, and lack access to comprehensive register data from upper secondary education. This study addresses these gaps by analyzing recent…

This study examined the development of school-related stress across two student cohorts in Sweden: one educated under a less performance-oriented system, and the other under a more performance-oriented system characterised by earlier grading and increased assessments. (pdf)

When grade point averages (GPAs) are used for admission into tertiary education, there is an implicit assumption that any two identical GPAs convey the same level of academic competency. However, this assumption does not hold when students are free to choose elective subjects and there are differences in their difficulty and dimensionality. (pdf)

While task analysis is considered a core aspect of self-regulated learning, its specific relationship with academic achievement among upper secondary school students and how it may be promoted in school remains poorly understood. (pdf)