Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno"
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Audience awareness in elementary school students’ texts: Variations within and between grades 1–3
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Aasen, Arne Johannes; Kvistad, Anne Holten; Johansen, Marita B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this study, we investigated audience awareness characteristics in elementary school students’ texts. To achieve this goal, we used a cross-sectional study design and sampled texts from 90 students in grades 1–3 (N = ... -
Conditional Standard Error of Measurement: Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory and Many-Facet Rasch Measurement with Applications to Writing Assessment
Huebner, Alan; Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Writing assessments often consist of students responding to multiple prompts, which are judged by more than one rater. To establish the reliability of these assessments, there exist different methods to disentangle variation ... -
“Digging for Gold” or “Sticking to the Criteria”: Teachers’ Rationales When Serving as Professional Raters
Jølle, Lennart; Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno (Journal article, 2018)This paper reports findings from a project called “The National Panel of Raters” (NPR) that took place within a writing test programme in Norway (2010–2016). A recent research project found individual differences between ... -
Effects of Rater Training on the Assessment of L2 English Oral Proficiency
Sundqvist, Pia; Sandlund, Erica; Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Tengberg, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The main objective of this study was to examine whether a Rater Identity Development (RID) program would increase interrater reliability and improve calibration of scores against benchmarks in the assessment of second/foreign ... -
Efficacy for writing self-regulation, attitude toward writing, and quality of second grade students’ writing
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Graham, Steve; Huebner, Alan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023) -
Elevers bruk av multimodaliteter i tidlig skriving - En studie av ulike elevgruppers bruk av multimodalitet i tekstskaping.
Rodum, Rebekka (Master thesis, 2022)Sammendrag Denne masteroppgavens formål er å undersøke hvordan ulike grupper med elever ved slutten av 1. trinn bruker multimodaliteter i tekstskaping. Masteroppgavens problemstilling er: Hvordan bruker elever multimodaliteter ... -
Elevers skrivförmåga och texters kvantitativa egenskaper
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Berge, Kjell Lars (Research report, 2017)I denne tekniske rapporten, «Elevers skrivförmåga och texters kvantitativa egenskaper», har Gustaf B. Skar (Skrivesenteret/NTNU) og Kjell Lars Berge (Skrivesenteret/UiO) gjennomført kvantitative analyser av elevtekster ... -
Establishing Rating Scales to Assess Writing Proficiency Development in Young Learners
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Jølle, Lennart; Aasen, Arne Johannes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Writing assessment scales were developed to include functional aspects of writing proficiency in contemporary Norwegian teaching toolkits for Grades 1 to 3. This study aims to describe the process of developing empirically ... -
Functional Writing in the Primary Years: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Writing Intervention Study
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Aasen, Arne Johannes; Jølle, Lennart (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This protocol article describes the project Functional Writing in the Primary Years, which received funding in late 2018 and was started in August 2019. The Functional Writing in Primary School (FUS) project aims to increase ... -
Handwriting fluency and the quality of primary grade students’ writing
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Lei, Pui-Wa; Graham, Steve; Aasen, Arne Johannes; Byberg Johansen, Marita; Kvistad, Anne Holten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Until children can produce letters quickly and accurately, it is assumed that handwriting disrupts and limits the quality of their text. This investigation is the largest study to date (2596 girls, 2354 boys) assessing the ... -
Hur tillförlitligt är det nationella provet i läsning i åk 9?
Tengberg, Michael; Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Reliability of the national reading test in 9th grade. This article reports from a study of reliability in the Swedish national reading test in ninth grade. Based on a representative sample of 500 students, the study ... -
Identifying texts in the Warning Zone: Empirical foundation of a screening instrument to adapt early writing instruction
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Kvistad, Anne Holten; Johansen, Marita B.; Rijlaarsdam, Gerrit Cornelis Willem; Aasen, Arne Johannes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article addresses the basis for the development of the screening tool Norwegian Early Writers Signal (NEWS). The aim of the study was to develop a tool for teachers in grades 1–3 to identify student texts in ‘the ... -
Interrater reliability of constructed response items in standardized tests of reading
Tengberg, Michael; Roe, Astrid; Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article reports from a study of interrater reliability of constructed response items in standardized tests of reading. Two panels of raters (lower secondary teachers and test developers) were asked to rate student ... -
Introducing teachers to new semiotic tools for writing instruction and writing assessment: consequences for students’ writing proficiency
Berge, Kjell Lars; Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Matre, Synnøve; Solheim, Randi; Evensen, Lars Sigfred; Otnes, Hildegunn; Thygesen, Ragnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article reports consequences for student writing quality based on a long-term professional learning project. Project teachers, representing all school subjects in grades 3–7, were presented with a writing construct, ... -
Kunnskapsgrunnlag om standpunktvurdering
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Hopfenbeck, Therese (Research report, 2021)Denne rapporten svarer på tre forskningsspørsmål: . Hvilken forskningsbasert kunnskap finnes om læreres og skolelederes praksis med standpunktvurdering i Norden? . Hvilken forskningsbasert kunnskap finnes om kvaliteten ... -
Learning Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impact of Emergency Remote Instruction on First Grade Students’ Writing: A Natural Experiment
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Graham, Steve; Huebner, Alan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the sudden cancellation of in-class instruction for many students around the world presented an unprecedented disruption in children’s education. As the COVID-19 pandemic ... -
The Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Writing: a Follow-up Replication Study
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Graham, Steve; Huebner, Alan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic and the move by governments worldwide to cancel in-class instruction and move to emergency remote instruction in March and April of 2020 created an unprecedented disruption in children’s education. ... -
A longitudinal intervention study of the effects of increasing amount of meaningful writing across grades 1 and 2
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Graham, Steve; Huebner, Alan; Kvistad, Anne Holten; Johansen, Marita Byberg; Aasen, Arne Johannes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The current study examined the effectiveness of a writing is caught approach with young developing writers in Norway. This method is based on the premise that writing competence is acquired naturally through real use in ... -
Med skriving som felles aktivitet
Hole-Forsmo, Maria; Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno (Journal article, 2016) -
Nasjonale utvalgsprøver i skriving 2015. Teknisk rapport.
Skar, Gustaf Bernhard Uno; Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag (Research report, 2016)