Day 1: Tuesday 18 June
10.00-11.00 | Registration and coffee Place: University Library, Georg Sverdups hus, Moltke Moes vei 39 |
11.00-12.30 |
Opening session Keynote presentation | What do we measure when measuring teaching? – teachers or classrooms, process or impact, behavior or perceptions, practices or quality, constructs or indicators, dimensions or features? Professor Eckhard Klieme, Director of the Department of Educational Quality and Evaluation (BiQua) at Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF). Place: University Library, Georg Sverdups hus, Moltke Moes vei 39, Aud 1 |
12.30-13.30 | Lunch Place: Blindern, Frederikke spiseri, Frederikkebygningen, Problemveien 11 |
13.30-15.00 |
Parallel sessions Paper session 1| Measuring Teaching Quality through Methodological Approaches Chair: Roar Bakken Stovner, PhD Fellow, University of Oslo Papers: Statistically based model to determine the reliability of teaching performance student surveys in higher education Analysing subject-specific aspects of instructional quality via rational task analysis - The development of a framework for the openness of mathematical tasks An application of generalizability theory to analyzing instructional quality observer ratings for mode effect Measuring the quality of vocational education and training: A Norwegian pilot of the COMET assessment instrument Paper session 2a | Analysing Teaching Quality Chair: Jennifer M. Luoto, PhD Fellow, University of Oslo Papers: Standardization in fluid contexts. Methodological constraints in large-scale video studies of teaching quality Mixed-Methods approaches and their application in studies of teaching quality - an illustration The day reconstruction method: A new tool for measuring teachers’ work, work contexts and affect Being fieldworkers in the classroom - two researchers and cameras in the same classroom |
15.00-15.30 | Coffee break |
15.30-17.00 |
QUINT Symposium | Quality in Nordic Teaching Chair: Marte Blikstad-Balas, Professor, University of Oslo Discussants: Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir, Professor, University of Iceland Presentations:
Astrid Roe, Kirsti Klette, Marte Blikstad-Balas, University of Oslo
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17.30-20.00 |
Reception (tapas and music) |
Day 2: Wednesday 19 June |
09.00-10.30 |
Parallel sessions Paper session 2 b | Analysing Teaching Quality Chair: Birna Svanbjörnsdóttir, University of Akureyri Papers: Modelling quality in social science teaching in Nordic classrooms Quality teaching and the tradition of didactics Paper session 2 c | Analysing Teaching Quality Chair: Anna Slotte, Associate Professor, University of Helsinki Papers: Teachers on the "Math and Science Trails" (MAST) to become reflective practitioners Co-authors: Berit Reitan, Norwegian Centre for Science Education Action(re)call: a method researching knowing-in-action Teenagers evaluation of teaching quality in Icelandic compulsory schools Paper session 3 | Observation Protocols as Frameworks for Understanding Teaching Chair: Marie Tanner, Associate Professor, Karlstad University Papers: Using general observation tools in the evaluation of special education teachers Exploring the use of mathematics observation tools across the contexts of the United States, Norway, and Finland: How do these tools shape our understanding of instructional quality when applied in different school settings? Co-authors: Christie Martin, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina Exploring the quality of inquiry-based science - developing a framework for video analysis Using observation instruments to understand change in teaching quality over time Co-authors: Bridget Maher, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan |
10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
11.00-12.00 |
Keynote presentation | How to study quality in teaching: Comparing designs and implicit assumptions in three QUINT subprojects Professor Nikolaj Elf, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and Nordic Centre of Excellence Quality in Nordic Teaching - QUINT Place: University Library building, Georg Sverdrups hus, Aud 1 |
12.00-13.00 |
Lunch |
13.00-14.30 |
Invited symposium | Nordic Policies for Teaching Quality The panel focuses on the existing procedures and measures to improve teaching quality in the Nordic countries. Representatives from each Nordic country present national actions from their respective countries. |
14.30-15.00 | Coffee break |
15.00-16.30 |
Parallel sessions Paper session 4 | Classroom Practices in Mathematics and Science Chair: Berglind Gísladóttir, Assistant Professor, University of Iceland Papers: Evaluating inquiry based learning in Mathematics What shapes classroom discourse in the mathematics classrooms? A study of instructional practices, meta-rules and teacher perspectives Designing data and statistics co-explorations for students and teachers Using video data to research teachers’ feedback practices – a matched comparison approach Paper session 5 | Reading Practices in the Nordic L1 (Language Arts) Subjects Chair: Anna Slotte, Associate Professor, University of Helsinki Papers: Quality in Language Arts/L1 teaching: A phenomenological inquiry-based approach to literature education Literature instruction – A study of instructional practices and the role of literary texts in 46 lower secondary Language Arts classrooms One teacher's reading comprehension instruction in one classroom in grade 8, 9 and 10 Reading as a starting point for extended writing opportunities in lower secondary English classrooms |
17.30-18.30 | Guided tour, Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo Photo Tour (limited to PhD Fellows) Meeting point: main entrance Vigeland Sculpture Park |
18.30 | Group photography (PhD Fellows) |
19.30 |
PhD Dinner (by invitation) |
Day 3: Thursday 20 June
09.00-10.00 |
Keynote presentation | What we see depends on how we look: The assessment of teaching in socio-cultural context Courtney Bell, Principal Research Scientist in ETS’s Global Assessment Center Place: University Library building, Georg Sverdrup, Aud 2 |
10.00-10.15 | Coffee break |
10.15-12.15 |
Parallel sessions PhD Paper session (QUINT PhD Fellows) Chair/commentators: Nikolaj Elf, Professor, University of Southern Denmark Papers: Instruments for measuring teaching quality in Mathematics - example approaches in Icelandic research Co-author: Berglind Gísladóttir, Assistant Professor, University of Iceland Cognitive activation potential of tasks in economy and society at commercial vocational schools in German-speaking Switzerland Fiction, reading and reading comprehension Phd Paper session | Student Perceptions Chair/commentators: Michael Tengberg, Professor, Karlstad University Papers: Are student perceptions of teaching quality reliable measures for evaluating teaching quality? Co-authors: Cees A. W. Glas, Professor, University of Twente Student Voice: a key to school improvement? Assessment and feedback practices in Finnish upper secondary schools Examining the role of student profiles in perception of teachers’ learning support Co-authors: Loredana Torchetti, Research Associate, University of Teacher Education Lucerne PhD Paper session | Teaching Quality and Teaching Practices Chair/commentator: Leif C. Lahn, Professor, University of Oslo Scaffolding language learners in secondary science classroom – An observation study How teacher educators perceive their approaches to teaching? A comparison between teacher educators from Finland and China Initiative to support teacher’s professional development in classroom interaction What happens when we do not teach? - The case of parental involvement PhD Paper session | Multilingual Education Chair/commentators: Joke DeWilde, Associate Professor, University of Oslo Papers: Quality from participant perspectives: A case of inclusion in multilingual classrooms Exploring Language teachers’ cognition in the implementation of a newly English education policy: Perspective, potential and pitfalls Exploring Preservice Teachers’ Perspectives on Student Diversity Translanguaging - teachers’ classroom practice and ideological beliefs: Linguistic ethnography at Japanese as a heritage language (JHL) schools in England |
12.15-13.00 | Lunch Place: Blindern, Frederikke spiseri, Frederikkebygningen, Problemveien 11 |
13.00-15.00 |
Invited symposium | Conceptualising Teaching Quality Chair: Kirsti Klette, Professor, Centre Director, QUINT and Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo Discussant: Courtney Bell, Principal Research Scientist, ETS’s Global Assessment Center Presentations:
Place: University Library building, Georg Sverdrups hus, Aud 2 |
15.15 | Closing remarks |
Updated 17 June 2019