• Endringer i lærerstudenters kompetanser? En casestudie fra en ny lærerutdanning ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet 

      Olufsen, Magne; Karlsen, Solveig; Ødegaard, Marianne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      From 2017 the Norwegian teacher education in primary and lower secondary school will be a five-year master education. UiT - The Norwegian Arctic University started a master education already in 2010. The main differences between the old and new program are: increased credits in both pedagogy and the master subject, more emphasize on pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and more focus on the master ...
    • Et tidlig gløtt inn i den nye norske lærerutdanningen. En komparativ studie av allmennlærer- og masterutdanning i naturfag for grunnskolen 

      Karlsen, Solveig; Olufsen, Magne; Haugland, Ole Anton; Thorvaldsen, Steinar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Fra 2017 innføres det i Norge masterutdanninger for alle grunnskolelærerstudenter. UiT Norges arktiske universitet innførte allerede i 2010 som eneste utdanningsinstitusjon en integrert 5-årig masterutdanning for grunnskolelærere. I denne pilotstudien sammenlignes tidligere og ny lærerutdanning i naturfag, og våre resultater kan derfor gi et tidlig gløtt inn i den nye lærerutdanningen. Motivasjon, ...
    • The impact of specialised content courses on student teaching in a Norwegian teacher education programme 

      Olufsen, Magne; Karlsen, Solveig; Sæleset, Johannes; Thorvaldsen, Steinar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-07)
      In recent decades, most Nordic countries have seen reforms in their teacher education programme, giving rise to an ongoing debate on these programmes’ content, structure, and quality. As part of a recent reform of teacher education in Norway, new Master’s-level programme have been introduced to educate teachers for grades 5–10, whereby pre-service teachers (PSTs) take specialised content courses and ...
    • Norske masterutdanninger i naturfag for grunnskolelærere – store variasjoner i omfang på masteroppgaver og fagsammensetning 

      Olufsen, Magne; Karlsen, Solveig; Monica, Andreassen; Sortland, Andy B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-11)
      Currently, the majority of students in lower secondary school teacher education take a four-year education in Norway. From 2017 this education will be prolonged to a five-year master education. In connection to this, there is an ongoing debate in Norway about the content of the new teacher education programs. In 2010, the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) began the first integrated five-year ...
    • Quality of beginner pre-service teachers’ science instruction 

      Sæleset, Johannes; Olufsen, Magne; Karlsen, Solveig (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-25)
      Teachers’ instructional quality is important for students’ learning outcomes, but research on beginner middle school pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) instructional quality and development is limited. In this case study, we investigated the quality of science instruction for beginner PSTs. All the 21 science lessons of six PSTs during the school practicum in their first year in a teacher education ...
    • Studying the quality of inquiry-based teaching in science classrooms. A systematic video study of inquiry-based science teaching in primary and lower-secondary schools 

      Kersting, Magdalena; Karlsen, Solveig; Ødegaard, Marianne; Olufsen, Magne; Kjærnsli, Marit; Suhr, Mai Lill (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-18)
      A large body of research has studied the role and potential ofinquiry to increase the quality of teaching in science education.While much of this existing research is based on internationallarge-scale assessment studies, we still lack a clear understandingof the factors that influence the quality of inquiry-based scienceteaching in actual classroom practices. In this paper, weoperationalise ...
    • To ulike utdanninger for skolens mellomtrinn. Er det samsvar mellom planverk og praksislæreres erfaringer med studentenes kompetanser på 1-7 og 5-10 utdanningene? 

      Karlsen, Solveig; Olufsen, Magne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      I 2010 ble det ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet startet opp et nasjonalt pilotprosjekt (Pilot i Nord) med 5-årige integrerte masterutdanninger for trinn 1-7 og 5-10. I denne kvalitative sammenligningsstudien har vi intervjuet åtte praksislærere på mellomtrinnet (trinn 5-7) med veiledningserfaring fra begge disse utdanningene og undersøkt om de opplever kompetanseforskjeller mellom studentgruppene. ...