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Hagen, Åste Mjelve; Knoph, Rebecca; Hjetland, Hanne Naess; Rogde, Kristin; Lawrence, Joshua Fahey; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Listening comprehension involves the ability to understand and extract meaning from spoken sentences, stories, and instruction. This skill is vital for young children and has long-term effects on school achievement, employability, income, and participation in society. There is a lack of measures of young children's listening comprehension skills.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, At Risk Students, Listening Comprehension, Language Acquisition
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Kyttälä, Minna; Björn, Piia M. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The main aim of the study was to differentiate adolescent profiles by math performance at the beginning and end of the final two years of lower secondary school, and relevant baseline attributes (literacy skills, general cognitive ability, math anxiety), and to investigate how these profiles differed by gender and math avoidance. A total of 193…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Achievement
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Frost, Jørgen; Ottem, Ernst – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The Myself-As-a-Learner scale (MALS) has been constructed to assess academic self-concept (Burden, R. L. [2000]. "The Myself As a Learner Scale." Birmingham: Imaginative Minds; Burden, R. L. [2012]. "The Myself As a Learner Scale" [2nd ed.]. Cognitive Education Development Centre, Graduate School of Education, University of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Control Groups, Vocabulary Development, Experimental Groups
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Green, K.; Tonnessen, F. E.; Tambs, K.; Thoresen, M.; Bjertness, E. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
In 15-16 year olds from Oslo, Norway, we investigated the occurrence of self-reported dyslexia and reading/writing difficulties (RWD), and we measured dyslexic symptoms using the "Duvan" dyslexia screening test. The prevalence of self-reported dyslexia was 8.2%, while 10.4% reported severe or moderate RWD. The group of self-reported…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Dyslexia, Foreign Countries, Screening Tests