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Have you ever wondered how teachers or policy-makers can stay up-to-date on the best ways to help students learn? 

─ It's not always easy to sift through all the educational research out there, says Diego G. Campos, who recently defended his thesis "Approaches to Integrating Large Data into Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in Education".

So said one of last year’s participants. Mark your calendars for yet another remarkable Week 42, from October 14-18, where research ethics, rhetoric and public opinion, impact, AI, and data visualization are among the ingredients.

Esther Ulitzsch has been awarded the Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award by the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).

Minecraft and Lego blocks, pinecones and Super Mario stars. Maybe it’s just us grown-ups making a false distinction between screen play and other kinds of play?

The title of the dissertation is "Teaching a Utopia? On the Conditions for Deliberative Discussion in Social Science Education." 

The Faculty of Educational Sciences (UV) is now offering up to 4 scholarships of 25,000 kr for innovation projects for students. What great ideas do you have for the future of the education sector? 

Maoxin Zhang will defend her thesis "Process data analysis in problem-solving tasks" on 1st December. In this interview you can learn more about Maoxin, her background, and her interest in humans and problem-solving.

Sharing and re-using the types of data often collected in the social sciences and humanities is difficult. These data are usually contextual – here-and-now specific – and often identify individuals.  This raises a number of legal and ethical constraints, and creates barriers to openness in qualitative research.

GPT UiO is live and launched. It is a UiO developed service that allows you to use OpenAI's ChatGPT within the requirements set by UiO and the law regarding privacy and security. The service is now open to all students and employees at UiO, and can be ordered by institutions within and outside the sector.

How can professional development programs be designed for the best chance of success? A new study provides insights.

Jelena Veletić will defend her thesis "Challenges and Opportunities in Measuring School Leadership. An analysis of data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor on 19th September. We had a summer coffee chat with her to learn more about her research and background.

About the text: We are testing different ways of bringing qualitative research to life. The short story aims to show what a Norwegian language adult education class could look and smell like.  

Researchers are working closely with teachers to test and evaluate an approach to literature education that they hope will increase students’ engagement with texts.

QUINT Director Kirsti Klette presented findings from the Norwegian and Nordic classrooms at the largest political gathering in Norway.

The treatment of second languages and mother tongues in schools is one test of how well Nordic values of social justice, equity, and inclusion are communicated in policy documents.

Researchers Johan Braeken and Nani Teig at the Faculty of Educational Sciences were awarded two projects within the Research Council's thematic call for proposals in the area of education and competence. 

Leading international researchers share their thoughts on a fast developing field.

Social science education in lower secondary schools is an integral part of the Danish and Norwegian national policies for fostering democratically engaged citizens, but the actual work involved in this task is complex and not well enough understood.

Nordic classrooms today are rich with digital technology, but we still know too little about its significance for the quality of teaching, says QUINT researcher Marie Nilsberth.

QUINT researchers presented their findings on innovative forms of teacher education at a conference in Oslo on Tuesday.  

QUINT Director Kirsti Klette will discuss the Centre's extensive work on data sharing across countries at the symposium in Chicago.

In the Nordic countries, mathematics classrooms are often characterised by individual work and procedural instruction, but research shows that this is not the most effective way to teach the subject. 

In a recent study QUINT researchers examined the quality of instruction in Swedish lower secondary schools.

The Connected Classrooms and LISA-Nordic projects each held symposia during Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) conference in Oslo last week.

Video has proven to be a powerful tool in teacher training and professional development. Researchers from the QUINT Centre explain how.