Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Presents new findings on teacher practice over time and across Nordic countries
- Develops methods for examining large-scale assessment data across cycles, countries, and groups of students
- Investigates inequality in student outcomes across socioeconomic status, and language backgrounds
Part of the book series: IEA Research for Education (IEAR, volume 14)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Open Access
- Teacher practice
- Teacher and teaching quality
- Instructional quality
- Nordic model of education
- Assessment practice
- Teacher feedback
- Content coverage
- Opportunity gap
- Mathematics education
- Science education
- Educational policy in Nordic countries
- Educational effectiveness in Nordic countries
- Educational equality in Nordic countries
- Student performance in Nordic countries
- TIMSS
- Gender equality in Nordic countries
- Social inequality
- Achievement gap
- Equity in education
About this book
This open access book presents original research on effective and equitable teacher practice in mathematics and science education across Nordic countries. It focuses on three key aspects of teacher practice: what teachers teach, how teachers teach, and how teachers assess their students.
To provide a comprehensive understanding of teacher practice, data from the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) from 2011 to 2019 was analyzed. TIMSS provides large-scale and representative data, allowing an in-depth investigation of the relations between teachers, their practices, and student outcomes. The findings highlight the changes in teacher practice over time and the extent to which such changes explain the differences in student outcomes. This research also contributes to understanding how the relationships between teacher practice and student outcomes vary across different student groups (i.e., gender, socioeconomic status, and language background).
The empirical evidence presented not only adds a significant layer to the academic discourse but also offers practical implications. These insights are crucial in facilitating educational policymaking and classroom practices aimed at improving student outcomes and closing gaps in educational inequality.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Trude Nilsen is a research professor at the University of Oslo. She is a leader of the research group LEA (Large-scale Educational Assessment) in her department, and a leader of several large research projects. She also is and has been, engaged as an international external expert for IEA’s TIMSS and for OECD’s TALIS. She has received several awards, amongst others the IEA Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award.
Her research is within the fields of educational effectiveness and international large-scale assessments, with a focus on teaching quality, educational equality, school climate, and applied methodology including causal inferences.Kajsa Yang Hansen’s research concerns educational quality and equity from a comparative perspective. She tackles these issues by investigating students’ social, motivational, and cognitive factors in the contexts of their schools, changing societies and education systems. Dr. Yang Hansen also has an interest in analytical techniques for large-scale survey data, e.g., multi-level analysis, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and second-generation SEM.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Effective and Equitable Teacher Practice in Mathematics and Science Education
Book Subtitle: A Nordic Perspective Across Time and Groups of Students
Editors: Nani Teig, Trude Nilsen, Kajsa Yang Hansen
Series Title: IEA Research for Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49580-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49579-3Published: 20 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49582-3Due: 20 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49580-9Published: 19 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2366-1631
Series E-ISSN: 2366-164X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 293
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Science Education, Mathematics Education, International and Comparative Education