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Fletta eftir sviði "Education"

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  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert (Uppsala University - Department of Education, 2015)
    Ólafur Daníelsson was a towering figure in mathematics teaching in Iceland during the first three quarters of the 20th century. His position as textbook writer, the mathematics teacher of the first 167 primary teachers, and the teacher of the first 20 ...
  • Ólafsdóttir, Björk; Jónasson, Jón Torfi; Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristin; Aspelund, Thor (2022-05-19)
    The main purpose of this research is to analyse school principals’ and teachers’ attitudes towards external school evaluation in Iceland, in particular, the ways in which they consider the evaluation affects their schools’ internal evaluation and drives ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Karp, Alexander; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert; Weiss, Ysette; Zender, Joerg (WTM Verlag für wissenschaftliche Texte und Medien, 2023)
    Four autonomous countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, established Nordic cooperation on modernising mathematics teaching in 1960, supported by the Nordic Council and OEEC, later OECD. Working teams wrote directives to teams writing experimental ...
  • Sigmundsson, Hermundur; Haga, Monika; Elnes, Magdalena; Dybendal, Benjamin Holen; Hermundsdottir, Fanny (2022-04-25)
    The aim of the current study was to explore differences in passion for achievement, grit, and mindset across age and gender, by using a cross-sectional design. The sample consisted of 1548 participants including 931 females and 617 males aged from 13 ...
  • Jóhannesson, Ingólfur Ásgeir; Ottesen, Andri Rafn; Bjarnadóttir, Valgerður S. (2022-05-26)
    This article presents an interview study with seven newlygraduated male teachers in Icelandic compulsory schools. We interviewed them five times during their first two years of teaching. The focus is on the ways in which the gender of the novice teachers ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Radford, Luis; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Hausberger, Thomas (IREM de Montpellier, 2016)
    The New Math was implemented in Iceland with the intention to facilitate understanding in the midst of increased demands for education for all. The article contains an analysis and comparison of typical papers in a selective entrance examination into ...
  • Jónasson, Jón Torfi; Bjarnadóttir, Valgerður S (2023-03-13)
    The paper proposes three educational spaces, an operational space, an interactive space and a comparative space. The focus is on the interactive space in order to shed light on various modes of Nordic educational cooperation, with a brief discussion ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Halldórsson, Bjarni Vilhjálmur; Barbin, Evelyn; Janquist, Uffe Thomas; Kjeldsen, T.H.; Smestad, Björn; Tzanakis, C. (Oslo Metropolitan University, 2019)
    The treatise Algorismus is a complete prose translation of the Latin hexameter Carmen de Algorismo into the medieval Old Norse language. Carmen is dated in 1202, written by the French canon Alexander de Villa-Dei. The treatise explains for the first ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín (2007)
    One and zero have always existed in arithmetic textbooks. In the modern sense they are numbers. It has not always been so. The Greek view was that a number is a multitude of units. This was often interpreted to mean that one (1) was not to be understood ...
  • Sigmundsson, H.; Dybendal, B. H.; Loftesnes, J. M.; Ólafsson, B.; Grassini, S. (2022-04)
    The principal aim of the present study was to investigate whether passion, grit and mindset differ between distinct levels of football competence in two football teams - elite and junior teams. We compared the 30% highest scoring (HFC) and the 30% ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Hreinsdóttir, Freyja (2015)
    A study of the results of PISA 2003 in Iceland showed that pupils in the two largest schools did was significantly better than in smaller schools. The score was particularly low in schools with 11–25 participants in PISA. A study of the PISA 2003 score ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Schubring, Gert; Fan, Lianghuo; Geraldo, Victor (Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,, 2018)
    The topics of ratios and proportions are investigated in the oldest Icelandic arithmetic textbook, Arithmetica Islandica of 1716, preserved in the manuscript Lbs. 1694 8vo. The conjecture that it is a translation of the printed Danish Arithmetica Danica ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Menghini, Marta; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert (Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2017)
    Following the seminar on new thinking in school mathematics, held in Royaumont, France, in 1959, the Nordic countries took up cooperation on analysing the situation in mathematics education, to work out curriculum plans and write experimental texts. A ...
  • Volmari , Saija; Sivesind, Kirsten; Jónasson, Jón Torfi; Karseth, Berit; Sivesind, Kirsten; Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2022-04-02)
    This chapter examines the use of regional policy knowledge and the importance of Nordic cooperation in the latest education reforms in Finland, Iceland, and Norway. By drawing on interviews and bibliometric network analysis, the authors demonstrate ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Winslow, Carl (Sense Publisher, 2009)
    Regula de Tri, the Rule of Three, is in its simplest form a way of computing the fourth proportional in an equation of two ratios. It was an indispensable topic in Iceland from the first textbooks in arithmetic in the 18th century until the 1970s. ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Barbin, Évelyne; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Karp, Alexander; Moussard, Guillaume; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert (WTM Verlag für wissenschaftliche Texte und Medien, 2020)
    In the Meran Program in 1905 and at the Royaumont Seminar in 1959, among the main themes were transformation geometry, including motion geometry, and group theory. Those themes entered some Danish mathematics textbooks and the English School Mathematics ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Bjarnadóttir, Kristín; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Krüger, Jenneke; Prytz, Johan; Schubring, Gert; Smid, Harm Jan (Utrecht University - Freudenthal Institute, 2019)
    The paper describes two Icelandic arithmetic textbooks, published respectively in 1780 and 1911– 14, both written at the beginning of an era when enhancing general education was placed on the agenda for restoring the Icelandic society after natural ...
  • Bjarnadóttir, Kristín (2015)
    Only few mathematics textbooks were developed in Icelandic during 1930–1966, and the model textbooks in use were originally developed in the 1920s. In 1966, Iceland was hit by an international school-mathematics reform movement, the New Math. The ...
  • Ólafsdóttir, Björk; Jónasson, Jón Torfi; Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín (2022-09-01)
    Past findings concerning whether and how feedback from external evaluations benefit the improvement of schools are inconsistent and sometimes even conflicting, which highlights the contextual nature of such evaluations and underscores the importance ...