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Anna Fabri; Anna Jobér – Educational Action Research, 2024
This paper reports on a two-year project focusing on health communicators working with refugees in Sweden. By employing participatory action research and the theory of practice architectures, the study examines a health information practice for newly arrived refugees and highlights its potentials and constraints. The joint meetings that occurred…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Sandin, Sofie; Benner, Mats – Research Evaluation, 2022
Energy efficiency is identified as a vital area for addressing sustainability challenges of our time. Governments throughout the world invest vast amounts of resources in research, for advancing knowledge on energy efficiency, and for fostering innovations that can support a transition towards a more sustainable energy system. Evaluation can be an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Energy Conservation, Efficiency, Program Evaluation
Enever, Janet, Ed.; Lindgren, Eva, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2017
This is the first collection of research studies to explore the potential for mixed methods to shed light on foreign or second language learning by young learners in instructed contexts. It brings together recent studies undertaken in Cameroon, China, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
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Kellner, Eva; Attorps, Iiris – Teacher Development, 2020
This article presents the evaluation of a two-year action research project in biology and mathematics teaching involving a primary school and a university in Sweden. The aim of the study was to contribute knowledge about a school-university intersection as a professional learning arena. The teachers' conceptions about the project implementation,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Program Evaluation, Action Research, Biology
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Erikson, Malgorzata; Erikson, Martin G.; Punzi, Elisabeth – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Conventionally, quantitative surveys are used for student evaluations in higher education, but the validity of this practice has been questioned. In the present study, we investigated a qualitative method for evaluating a bachelor's programme. Forty-one first-year students and twenty-eight third-year students on a bachelor's programme in Public…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Bachelors Degrees, Undergraduate Students, Public Administration Education
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Hou, Yung-Chi; Ince, Martin; Tsai, Sandy; Wang, Wayne; Hung, Vicky; Lin Jiang, Chung; Chen, Karen Hui-Jung – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Joint degree programs have gained popularity in East Asia, due to the growth of transnational higher education in the region since 2000. However, the external quality assurance (QA) and accreditation of joint degree programs is a challenge for QA agencies, as it normally involves the engagement of several institutions and multiple national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Academic Degrees, Cooperative Programs
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Altmisdort, Gonca – English Language Teaching, 2016
The main aim of this study is to analyze and discuss the similarities and the differences between English language teacher educational programs at universities in Turkey, and to identify the undergraduate students' ideas about their current curriculum. In addition to this, the study aims to compare the education of English language teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Reichenberg, Monica – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
The present study is a follow up study to a quantitative intervention study where two intervention programs, Reciprocal Teaching and Inference Training, were practiced. This study aims at capturing the potentials benefits and qualitative aspects of one of the programs evaluated, Reciprocal Teaching. More specifically, I have investigated the video…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Comprehension, Mental Retardation, Inferences
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Gustavsson, Maria; Ekberg, Kerstin – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This article reports on the findings of a planned workplace health promotion intervention, and the aim is to identify conditions that facilitated or restricted the learning to promote health at an emergency care department in a Swedish hospital. The study had a longitudinal design, with interviews before and after the intervention and follow-up…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Health Promotion, Intervention, Educational Environment
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Josefson, Kristina; Pobiega, Jenny; Strahlman, Christian – Quality in Higher Education, 2011
Sweden has a high level of student influence. At Lund University, students are not viewed as counterparts but partners in the university's activities. Lund University has carried out Student Satisfaction Surveys (barometers) since the 1990s and an overview has shown that an evaluation culture has grown during the past decade. It is, however, time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
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Jonsson, Anders; Lundahl, Christian; Holmgren, Anders – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
This study reports on a large-scale implementation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) in a Swedish municipality. The implementation was founded on two principles: (1) teaching should be informed by educational research; (2) to be successful teachers' professional development needs to be based in everyday classroom practice. From these principles,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Educational Research, Instructional Innovation
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Rahikainen, Katariina; Hakkarainen, Kai – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate Finnish high school students' and teachers' perceptions of the effects of short-term Nordic study abroad programs in which they had participated. The data presented were based on a "mixed-methods strategy." The data set consisted of responses from 158 students and 92 teachers to a specifically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Alkin, Marvin C.; Johnson, Mauritz – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1972
Authors present their view of the current research and development activities supported by Byra L 4 of the Swedish National Board of Education. (Author)
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Development, Educational Research, Program Evaluation
Taguma, Miho; Litjens, Ineke; Makowiecki, Kelly – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become a policy priority in many countries. A growing body of research recognises that it provides a wide range of benefits, including social and economic benefits, better child well-being and learning outcomes as a foundation for lifelong learning, more equitable outcomes and reduction of poverty, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Market, Literature Reviews, Foreign Countries
Pantzar, Eero – Adult Education in Finland, 1985
This issue examines the following topics: comparative adult education (its scientific status and development), adult education research activity in system analysis, the inner structure of the system of adult education, adult education research and recently completed planning work, and the contents of adult education research in West Germany,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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