Jo Fosby Jaavall

• Jaavall, Jo Fosby (2024). De biologiske syklusene av søvn og stress i eksamensperioden.
• Nordtug, Maja & Jaavall, Jo Fosby (2024). Følelsene rundt et fysisk og et virtuelt kyss kan være nokså like . Forskersonen.no.
• Jaavall, Jo Fosby & Klempe, Hroar (2021). A Longitudinal Study on Student Developments in Learning Communities: Changes in Grit, Passion, Mindset, Motivation, and Attendance During COVID-19. NTNU: Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet. Show summary

  The use of learning communities has been a staple in tertiary education for many years. There are however few studies that have investigated this programme in lieu of relevant variables of learning. The current study sought to investigate how participation in learning communities, amongst primarily first year psychology students, over their first semester in university affected the variables of grit, passion, mindset, motivation, and attendance. A thorough theoretical overview was also given for these variables. Potential gender differences and developmental patterns, alongside how attendance was affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, were also measured. The sample consisted of 94 students in learning communities, 72 of which were used for further analysis, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). By using one-way repeated measure ANCOVA it was found that over the course of a semester there was a significant increase in mindset (p < .05) but not in grit, passion, or motivation. No significant gender differences were observed. A paired-samples T-test showed that student attendance for learning communities in one subject was significantly better (p < .05) in the first semester of 2020 - 2021 (with COVID-19 restrictions) than the same period in the previous year. The current study offers a unique insight into the potential of learning communities to incite change in students, alongside how these functioned under a global pandemic. Although there was only a significant change in mindset, several trends in the data of the other variables were observed. Through this it is hoped that general developmental patterns for the variables might be established, which has the potential to be a rich source of knowledge for future researchers and educators to draw upon when creating the educational programmes of tomorrow.

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