- Digital assessmenet
- Student assessment in primary education
- Student assessment in higher education
- Programme evaluation and project evaluation
- Assessment’s relation to evaluation and operational development on the system level
- Assessment for learning and culture of assessment
- School development
- Influence of school culture, teaching communication, and local environment for school development
PhD programme in Humanities and Education
Projects
PhD projects/docent projects:
- "Yrkesfaglærerern tilrettelegging i overgangen fra skolebasert til læreplass" Kari-Anne Kverneggen (-2027)
- "The VET-teacher's work related to the subject of professional specialization" Monika Øgård (Defense 1.09.2026)
- "How can a local modell for the subject of work-life contribute to the motivation, self-effcacy and the processing of comprehensive school with credits points? May Helen Uppstad Austad (PhD 2025)
- Postdoc "in higher Education" Erik Yves Adalberon (-2026)
- "(Digital) teaching and (digital) assessment in vocational education and training" (Docent project) Frank Egeland (qualified 2024)
- «New forms of assessment in teacher training» Erik Yves Adalberon (finished 2021)
- "The impact of the European Qualification Framework on Higher education". (PhD project) Christine Watne Kristiansen (finished December 2021)
Research projects:
Schools meet Worklife: Development of practice orieneted models for matersy and transsition: delivered proposal to NFR, juni 2026. Project group: Hillen, Egeland, Austad, Øgård, Myhre, Grødeland, Bragdø.
Vocational specialisation and local curricula: collaboration between school and companies: Frank Egeland & Stefanie Hillen (-2027). Publication in Norsk Pedagogisk Tidsskrift (in editorial prepartaion, planned publiscation, August 2026)
LearningTogehter: PLC based research and publication project. (to be published in 2026)
GenAI and challenges for future learning: International collaboration project (inpreparation) between University of Nebraska at Omaha, Peter Wocott, Subu, C. Schaffer and Alexandra Lazareva, Frank Reichert og Stefanie Hillen
Corona and teaching (self-regulated) digital learning (teaching based research) Frank Egeland.
Alternative forms of Civil education (Evaluation project of 14 measures in adult education) Rainer Christ & Stefanie Hillen
School-In - an innovation research project that explores the relationship between teaching communication, school culture and local environment. Jorunn Midtsundstad, Stefanie Andrea Hillen, Grethe Ingebrigtsvold Sæbø, Kirsten Horrigmo (finished 31.12.2020)
Self-regulated learning and self-assessment (Teaching based research in VET- practice study programme) Frank Egeland, Jon Terje Hegghaug, Monika Øgård, Kari-Anne Helleberg Kverneggen og Stefanie Andrea Hillen
SOL, Student Ownership of Learning - Skoleutvikling-brettspill og analysetool av resultater. Desire Baartman
DaVinciVideo, Research and Development project. Development and production of classroom-based videos on IBL for teacher training and the development of Design Principles for such videos. Desire Baartman
Assessment Culture Project, Inger Marie Dalehefte og Stefanie Andrea Hillen
Learning across boundaries in VET subject teaching (YFF), Kari-Anne Helleberg Kverneggen
Education to choose. Dahlske UDV. Prosjekt I regi av Senter for yrkesliv og opplæring I arbeidslivet. Kari-Anne Helleberg Kverneggen og Monika Øgård
International Bokprosjekt: Assessment as a pedagogical tool, Stefanie Andrea Hillen
Assessment for Learning (ASFORL) - a comparative pre-project which is focusing on culture of assessment in Norway and US in Higher Ed (NRC). Stefanie Hillen, Inger Marie Dalehefte, Gil Gilberts
Analysis of forms of assessment at University of Agder. Stefanie A. Hillen, Inger Marie Dalehefte (published in UiA Beta (Assessment and feedback using digital tools at UiA – UiA Beta)
Research cooperation
University of Teacher Education, Upper Austria, Prof. Dr. habil. Karin Heinrichs, Head of the Research Unit for Teaching and Learning in Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Diversity.
Aalborg University, Centre for Education Policy Research, PhD, Nanna Ramsing Enemark & colleagues.
University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), Department of Education. Learning Together. (Melodee Landis).
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main: Boundary Learning in vocational education and training. Department of Vocational Education (Eveline Wuttke)
University of Rostock, Department of Vocational Education Educational System and practice for VET. (Franz Kaiser).
University of Nebrasaka at Omaha. Department of Education (Connie Schaffer) & Department of ITS (Peter Wolcott).