Early numeracy skills are falling, leading to quests for new instructional approaches. Blended learning has potential to improve motivation and achievement in mathematics. We investigated the effects on pupil achievement and motivation of using Dragonbox School in 2019-2020, which aims for a holistic early numeracy approach with teacher training, books, physical concretes, and digital components. (pdf)

In primary education, adaptive learning technologies (ALTs) personalise tasks and provide teacher dashboards that visualise real-time student performance and progress. These dashboards can help teachers to provide targeted, real-time feedback based on the dashboard data, a practice known as dashboard-prompted feedback (DP-feedback). This study examined how teachers give different types of DP-feedback (task, process, metacognitive,…

Internationally, we lack knowledge at scale about young people’s perceptions of support for their religious freedom and about their levels of commitment to religious equality. Such knowledge could inform efforts to interrupt potential antagonisms. Drawing on survey data from 3156 14–15-year-olds in England, this paper examines how youth perceive support for religious expression at school,…

In Finland, teachers have historically held a high degree of trust and respect, where they have been thought of not only as teachers but educators in a broader sense. This is reflected by the national curriculum dictating that teachers should not only teach, but see to their students’ social development. Interested in how this second…

Varför är det så många som säger ”jag kan inte matte”? Det ska forskare ta reda på. Sex skolor i Lund ingår i en finsk studie om matematikundervisning.

Good Behavior Game (GBG) is a school-based intervention designed to reduce conduct problems, while increasing on-task behavior and a positive classroom climate. Earlier studies have shown positive long-term effects in several outcomes, making GBG a promising method of universal prevention. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a translated and adapted version of GBG in a…

Höjaspelet, en variant av Good behaviour game (GBG), ökar studiero och fokus i klassrummet, enligt en ny studie. Dariush Djamnezhad, en av av forskarna bakom studien, poängterar att utagerande beteenden ofta kan vara tidiga tecken på problem senare i livet och därför måste tas på stort allvar. 

Rektorer, biträdande rektorer och förvaltningsledare från åtta huvudmän samlades nyligen i Örebro för ett utvecklingsseminarium inom FoU-programmet Rektors undervisningsnära ledarskap (RULE). Över 300 deltagare ingår i det treåriga programmet, som syftar till att stärka det undervisningsnära ledarskapet och bidra till att utveckla undervisningen.

Nivåskillnaderna i elevernas engelskkunskaper är stora i svenska klassrum – vilket skapar utmaningar för helklassundervisande lärare. Jenny Bergström och Carina Tångring vid Uppsala universitet vill underlätta dessa utmaningar med ett nytt stödmaterial.