Quality in Norwegian Higher Education: Pathways, Practices and Performances

Status: Avsluttet
Start: 01.10.2014
Slutt: 31.12.2017
Finansiering: Norges forskningsråd

Prosjektbeskrivelse

Objectives

The objective of the project is to elaborate our understanding of quality in Norwegian higher education with focus on following three areas:

Ongoing quality work in national and institutional contexts
The organization and governance of study programs and degree structures
Quality work in educational processes, teaching, feedback and assessment

The project is based on a multi-level and multi-disciplinary approach and aims at examining the relationship between specific trends and patters in education strategies and practices. The project will also provide an overview of the quality of Norwegian higher education compared internationally. Findings from the project will provide a basis for recommendations for further strengthening quality work of Norwegian higher education.

Project summary

The project contributes to an improved understanding of the quality of higher education. This will be done by producing research-based evaluation identifying and examining factors affecting educational quality at system levels as well as in educational practices. The main focus of the investigation will be study-programs and concentrate on the Norwegian system of higher education, but also collaborate closely with relevant research milieus- and projects in other Nordic countries. The project progresses in three phases:

Review of research and analysis of existing empirical data on the quality of higher education in general and the Norwegian context in specific. (Part A)
Empirical examination of selected study programs with focus on (a) basic structural conditions for quality work (Part B), and (b) educational practices (Part C)
Explanation of interplay between the structural/systemic and program-level educational practices involved in high quality work (Part D)

A multi-level approach is used to provide a comprehensive picture of quality issues documented during these three phases by identifying dynamics between external (new reforms, resource considerations, European/global trends) and internal (disciplinary developments, cultures and pedagogical choices/theories) pressures influencing quality work on the level of study programs. A final project outcome is to develop recommendations for further quality enhancement activities in Norwegian higher education.

The project ends December 2017.

Resultater

År	Tittel	Type	Forfattere
2018	What matters for productive feedback? Disciplinary practices and their relational dynamics	Vitenskapelig artikkel	Rachelle Esterhazy
2016	Enhancing student learning through ‘student-centered approaches’: What matters for educational quality?	Foredrag	Crina I. Damsa, Monika Nerland, Bjørn Stensaker
2018	Policy, Perceptions, and Practice: A Study of Educational Leadership and Their Balancing of Expectations and Interests at Micro-level	Vitenskapelig artikkel	Bjørn Stensaker, Nicoline Frølich, Per O Aamodt
2017	Ledelse av studieprogrammer	Foredrag	Mari Elken, Nicoline Frølich, Per O Aamodt
2016	Indikatorer på kvalitet i høyere utdanning	Arbeidsnotat	Elisabeth Hovdhaugen, Per O Aamodt, Ingvild Reymert, Bjørn Stensaker
2016	Beyond Bologna? Change processes and change drivers within study programs in Norwegian higher education	Konferanseforedrag	Bjørn Stensaker, Nicoline Frølich, Per O Aamodt
2018	All student-centered now? Analyzing institutional teaching and learning policies in Scandinavia	Konferanseforedrag	Mari Elken, Bjørn Stensaker
2018	Participant or observer in an online MBA?	Konferanseforedrag	Trine Fossland, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte
2018	I Saved the Patient: Simulation and Self-Efficacy in Health Education	Vitenskapelig kapittel	Odd Rune Stalheim, Yngve Troye Nordkvelle
2016	Kvalitet i høyere utdanning – og noen dilemmaer i formingen av fremtidens lærerutdanning	Foredrag	Agnete Vabø
2018	Online teaching and learning in an experience-based MBA programme	NonFictionChapter	Trine Fossland, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte
2017	Quality of Norwegian Higher Education project: Analysis of HowULearn data	Konferanseforedrag	Rachelle Esterhazy, Heidi Hyytinen
2016	The teachers’ role in the changing landscape of technology rich environments	Konferanseforedrag	Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Trine Fossland
2016	Undervisningsvilkår ved universitetene: En analyse av data fra CAP-undersøkelsen	Arbeidsnotat	Per O Aamodt
2016	The role of social interaction for developing feedback literacy in higher education students	Konferanseplakat	Rachelle Esterhazy
2018	"Aktiv læring" / Studentaktiviserende undervisning:Noen implikasjoner for utdanningsfaglig kompetanse og for samspillet mellom emner	Konferanseforedrag	Monika Nerland
2017	The Practices of Quality Management: Collaboration and control of study program delivery	Konferanseforedrag	Elisabeth Hovdhaugen, Bjørn Stensaker
2018	Kvalitet i høyere utdanning: Muligheter og utfordringer med studentaktiviserende undervisning	Foredrag	Monika Nerland
2017	Educational leadership and Technology. Findings from surveys from Norway and Denmark	Konferanseforedrag	Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Trine Fossland, Per Olaf Aamodt, Lise Degn
2018	Bringing work-related elements into teaching and learning of legal education	NonFictionChapter	Trine Fossland, Thomas de Lange
2018	What matters for productive feedback?	Konferanseforedrag	Rachelle Esterhazy
2018	Using external study programme reviewers for working with quality in higher education	Konferanseforedrag	Mari Elken
2017	Quality work in Higher Education	Konferanseforedrag	Mari Elken, Bjørn Stensaker
2017	En melding for større kvalitetsforskjeller i norsk høyere utdanning?	Fagartikkel	Agnete Vabø
2017	Kan vi måle kvalitet i høyere utdanning?	Foredrag	Mari Elken
2015	Quality in Norwegian Higher Education: A review of research on aspects affecting student learning	Forskningsrapport	Crina I. Damsa, Thomas de Lange, Mari Elken, Rachelle Esterhazy, Trine Fossland, Nicoline Frølich, Elisabeth Hovdhaugen, Peter Maassen, Monika Nerland, Yngve Troye Nordkvelle, Bjørn Stensaker, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Agnete Vabø, Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen, Per O Aamodt
2018	Pathways to quality in higher education : Case studies of educational practices in eight courses	Forskningsrapport	Monika Nerland, Tine Sophie Prøitz
2016	The role of social interaction for developing feedback literacy in higher education students - An observation study	Konferanseforedrag	Rachelle Esterhazy
2017	Unpacking the feedback process: an analysis of undergraduate students’ interactional meaningmaking of feedback comments	Vitenskapelig artikkel	Rachelle Esterhazy, Crina I. Damsa
2017	Unpacking the feedback process: An analysis of undergraduate students’ interactional meaning-making of feedback comments	Konferanseforedrag	Rachelle Esterhazy, Crina I. Damsa
2015	Presentasjon av prosjekt om kvalitet i norsk høyere utdanning. NOKUT 6. mai 2015	Foredrag	Agnete Vabø
2018	Portfolio assessment in an undergraduate course in ecology	NonFictionChapter	Rachelle Esterhazy
2016	Forskningsbasert evaluering av kvalitet i norsk høyere utdanning	Foredrag	Agnete Vabø
2016	Undervisning og læring i teknologirike omgivelser	Konferanseforedrag	Trine Fossland
2017	Academic development as cultural work: responding to the organizational complexity of modern higher education institutions	Vitenskapelig artikkel	Bjørn Stensaker
2018	Sentrale funn og anbefalinger fra QNHE prosjektet	Foredrag	Mari Elken, Peter Maassen, Monika Nerland, Bjørn Stensaker, Agnete Vabø
2018	Study program leadership: a matter of organization?	Konferanseforedrag	Bjørn Stensaker, Mari Elken, Peter Maassen
2016	Utdanningsledelse: En analyse av ledere av studieprogrammer i høyere utdanning	Arbeidsnotat	Per O Aamodt, Elisabeth Hovdhaugen, Bjørn Stensaker, Nicoline Frølich, Peter Maassen, Carmen Celine From Dalseng
2017	Sociocultural perspectives on feedback: How do they help us solve the feedback dilemma?	Konferanseforedrag	Rachelle Esterhazy
2016	The teachers’ role in the changing landscape of technology rich environments	Konferanseforedrag	Trine Fossland, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte
2015	Litteraturstudie: kvalitet i høyere utdanning. Kunnskapsdepartementet 10 juni 2015	Konferanseforedrag	Thomas de Lange, Bjørn Stensaker, Agnete Vabø
2015	Presentasjon av kunnskapsstatus om kvalitet i norsk høyere utdanning. Kunnskapsdepartementet 12. oktober 2015	Foredrag	Agnete Vabø, Bjørn Stensaker
2015	Presentasjon av prosjekt og kunnskapsstatus om kvalitet i norsk høyere utdanning. Seminar for nettverket for studiedirektører 20. oktober 2015	Foredrag	Agnete Vabø
2018	Seeking and engaging with feedback: How students explore and co-construct disciplinary practices	Konferanseforedrag	Rachelle Esterhazy
2017	Disciplinary differences in organising quality work	Konferanseforedrag	Agnete Vabø, Mari Elken
2016	Forskningsbasert evaluering av kvalitet i høyere utdanning	Foredrag	Agnete Vabø
2018	Studying effective feedback through a sociocultural lens: How can we account for the relational, processual and situated nature of feedback?	Konferanseforedrag	Rachelle Esterhazy
2018	Organizing quality work in higher education institutions	Konferanseforedrag	Mari Elken, Nicoline Frølich, Peter Maassen, Bjørn Stensaker
2017	Students’ and beginning professionals’ learning with web-based resources in software engineering	Konferanseforedrag	Monika Nerland, Crina I. Damsa
2018	Portfolio assessment in biology: following a three-year design cycle	Konferanseforedrag	Rachelle Esterhazy, Øyvind Fiksen
2018	Conceptualising ‘quality work’ in higher education	Vitenskapelig artikkel	Mari Elken, Bjørn Stensaker
2017	Students’ interactional meaning-making of assessment feedback viewed through a sociocultural lens	Konferanseforedrag	Rachelle Esterhazy, Crina I. Damsa