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ABSTRACTFifty-one educational research projects completed or
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roject descripttons'cover all areas of research,at-every educAtionalevel. Described are research studies on a variety of topics such asteaching methods, teaching resources, learning, problem solving,school organization, youth, 'testing, language, arithmetic, careers,.and creativity. Each project 'description' in this survey lists name, ofsponsoring institution, name of project leader,4 yroject title,bibliographic. references, background and goals of the research,scope, method; main.findings, time schedule, source of finance, andnumber of researchers. (DE)
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EDUCATION RESEARCH 'IN DENMARK
1971 1972
,MINISTRY UP EDUCATION
COPENHAGEN,
September, 1973..
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INTRODUC T 0,1\T
This document contains the Danish_contribution'to the Third
European Survey of Educational Research, covering educational
.research completed or i progress during 1971-1972/
The collection of data was organized.by the Ministry of Education
who was also responsible.for the editing and translation o the
completed questionnaires.
-As the criteria for the research projects, as. laid down in the
CCC document 6Ks/Reeli (72),29, are open to some interpretation,
it.has been necessary for the Ministry to make a selection among
the answers from the researchers and institutes. Thus a number. of
investigations carried ou-Jbylocal school authorities have been
left out of the survey as they do not, .in editors' opinion, fulL,
fill the above :mentioned .creCeria, especially with regard to the. L
scale at which the research has been carried out.a
The institutions are listed alphabeticTly. Within each insti-,
tution the projects are listed alphabtticallY according tq the
name of the projeot leader. 7,
It is hoped that in future more precise criteria for data
collection will be availaLe in order to make internatioftal.
comparison easier.
Ellberger NielsE. Pfn
-Ministry 'of Education '1_7.eee
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Institution), The Danish Institute' of Educational Re-.
search, Depakment or EducatiOnal Psychology.
/Project leader: Agnete Diderichsen.
Project title: -bLangUage as an'aspect ofdevelopment.'
Bibliographicreferences: The annual reports of the Danish Institute
of Educational Research 69/70, 70/71, 71/72.
Diderichsen, A: Soviet psychology41heories
V of the development of language's:rid thinking.
Offprint from Tiden, 1972. .
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
The research is being carried out in three
fields: 1) the use of a developmental model
linking verbal and don-verbal aspects for
analysing language development; 2)1anguage
development described on linguistic princi-
ples in a broad cdgnitive context, also the4 role of language' in concept formation; 3)
the dependance of language development upon
the interaction of particular social circum-
stances.
Tile third-of the project irwolves the recor-
ding of the daily communication behavior 'of
3 children, aged lz - 3 years.
The above two partS are at present based on
literature, espeCially as it relates to a
thboretical analysis of language developmento
in the pre-school period.
Main'findings: The aim is to develop a closer relationship
between,educatIonal practice and the above
(Ascribed approach to language' development.
Time schedule: The project is still in progress. Provisional
reports are beingprepared.
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Source of al
finance: Government grand under the Finance Act.:
Numbegp ofresearchers:
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3 research psychologists, 1 gradutte student.
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InStitution:
Project leader:
Project title:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Maih findings4J
Time, schedule:
The Danish Institute of Educational ReQearch,
The Department of Educational Experimentation
Mogens Jansen.
Janssen, Mogens & Moller, Kreiner, Svend: Who
or what determines the activities of the.
classroom teacher? Classroom interaction News-
letter, Vol. 5, No.li p.p. 57-67. Jansen, M:
Faktorer der pgvirker klasselmrerens arbejde.
(Factors which determine the activities of
the classroom teacher) SkandAnaVisk Tidsskrift
for Ldspedago7, Vol 5, No..1:p.p..7-12.
The releirch is elucida:ting.some of the fac-
tors which determine the classroom teacher's
activities and includes the investigation of
social, sociQieducational, and scio-1;sycho-
logical obeervatichs in,schooi:cIasses from
grade 3 to grade 7.
17 'selected classes are followed Qver a ra-
ther 19ng period. The daily work during d9me
of the lessons is analysed.
ClassroQm observations, classroOm analysis,
_interviews., and study of related literature.
The work of the classtoomteacher is neither
dependent on clastgrade nor on the individual
teacher..'The schoOa' determines the work.
Furthermore the classroom t a ker-seems to .
-have very essential functi
Completed in. 1971.
Source of finance: Project of the institute: Governmental.
Number ofresearchers:
.
Psychologist, statistician, teachers, head7
masters and pupils.J
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Institution:
Project, .
'Project title:
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Bibliographicrefererences:
°Background`and aims: .
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
Number ofresearchers:
4 V
The Danish Institute of Educational Research
The DelArtment of Educational Experimentation
#,
Mogens Jansen.
An investigation of work books on Danish for
kindergartep cla48csestand the first seven
grades.
Jansen, Mogens & Ahm, Jette. Work Books-on
the subject of Danish for.kindergarten clas-
se8..and the first seven grades. Registration
and 'AnalyLs. Copenhagen: The Danish nsti-
tgte for Educational Research; 1971.No.
To give a full description of all, work ooks
which are used in the teaching of the mother-
tongue, primarily in regard to.foimal st
ture and educational scope, and, secondarily,
in reda:rd' to contents: .
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Registration of workbooks,sanalysis, study
of literature.'
The investigated workbOoks contained a large
number of assignments which added little to
the development of thechIld. The more 'cre-
ate' tasks are few. A foundation is created
for an analysisof the contents of the work-
books.
Completed in 1971.
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iProject of the institute: Governmen al.
1 educational .psychologist, 1 student of
eduCation, technical assistance.
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Institution:
Project leader:
Project title:
liographicreferences:
Backgroand aim
Scope:
Methods:
Main -findings:
Time schedule:
Source of.finance:
The Danish Institute o± Educational Research
The Department of Educational Experimentation
Mogens Jansen.
Research into the teaching of .Danish ass .a
mother tongue during the first.seven years
of the "foliceikolen" (primary and lowerse--
condary,school).
About ten reports published in 1967 and 1972.
F"irther information can be obtained from the
department.
To-develop techniques that will enable re-
searchers to make, systematic descriptions of
what teachers and.pupils do at school: Paral-
lel to this,the project deaf with the con-
tents and form of teaching of Danish at pri-
mary 1ev,e1 from. grades one to seven.
A large number of, teachers and classes-at!
school:- scattered all over the country.
Classroom observations and -analysis, inter-
views, study of related literature.
As publ'ihed. Ar.
The project is st 1- in- progress. AS reaultsp
are obtained,' they are published.
Project of. the institute: Govel-nmental.
Number ofresearchers: The number-varies.
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instItution: The Danish Institute of Education6,1 Resrier,
' 'Project title:
bi iographicreierences:
Backgrounand aims:
Methods:
Main findings:
Time schedule:
SJurce offinance:
Number of. ,researchers: Educational psychologists, \linguist:, a
technical assistant.
The Department'of EducatioA nal Experimentation
.The instruction of Danish - Scandinavian
languages - foreign languages.
Variouo-reports. Further informatiocan
obtained from the department.
.
In the Nordic countries all pupils re edu-
cated in the Scandinavian languages. This
nearly always differs from idoth the mdther-
tongut language education and foreign lan-j
guage education. - The aim of this research
is to obtain 'a description of the three
'anguage areas': mothertongue language, ac-
uainted language; foreign language, and all'
the borderlines between them.
A number of classes in, Denmark, Northern,
Germany, Sweden, fceland, the Faroe Islands,
and Greenland at grades where children are
taught Danish.
Classroom observations' and analyais,o inter-
viewastudy of related literature.
It seems as'if it kill be possible t obtain:o
t number of results concerning the di/6-.1J
nal method.and materials. There are typical.
differences between the. three 'types' of
language...\
classroom.obsrvations are (4)tm7 etcd.
analysis is.is.still in progress.
Project of,the Institute: Gove'rnmental.
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Intitution: .;,'The Danish Institute of Educational Research
Project leader:O
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences: .
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Section for Differential Pedagogy.
Jorgerl Aage Jensen, Vagn Rabdl Hansen.
'Individual differences Ali learning and
'problem-scaving.
Hansen, V.R.& Jensen, J.A.: Educational
Theory and Developmental psychology: Diffe-
rential Pedagogy. StenCilAd_Erfglish Version
from 244.12a (Journal published by the Ministry
of Education) Vol.5, No.9, 1972:p.p. 539.-
542. Jensen, J.A.: Concrete transitivity of
lenght, Scand. J. ,Psvchol, No.l'l, 1970:P.P
196-212. Jensen, J.A.& Nissen, T: Fra test
til observationsmenster (From tests to pat-
-tOrns of observation), Skolepsykologi, vol.
9r No.3, 1972: p.p. 65-76.
The project is based on selected research
trends within developmental psychology,
learning psychology, and cognitive psycholo-
gy.Intellectual functions relevant to educa-
tional problems are described. An educational
model and a developmental model are instiu-
mental in an attempt to describe individual
differences in actionpatterns in various
learning and problem - solving situations in
a way which makeS possible pedagogical in-
tervention. The specific problems concern
'logical thinking' and fr'eading and comPen-
sation-mechanismslf.
Within the above mentioned project °a number
of investigations are being pursued. These
comprise normally 20-30 subjects, mainly
children between the ages of 6 and 14 years,
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Methods:.
Main findings:
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
Number ofresearchers:
)
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Variousarious experimental procedures (the
.mentioned reference,- obtainable at the
Danish Institute of Educational Research).
The aim of'ihe project is to render develop-
Mentalpsychological knowledge into a tom
the-6'1s pedagogically relevant, i.e. analy-
sis of existing and new knowledge and an .1.r
attempt at describing this in a Way which
makes it the foundation of pedagogical inter-
vention..
The project is in progress. However, various
investigations and analysis have beeji pu-
blished as parts of the project, see above.
GoVernment0.1 finance. .
2 research psychapgists, 2 graduate stu-
dents.
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Institution:
Project. leader:
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
BaCkgroundand aims:k.
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Scope:
Methods
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Main findings:
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The-Danish Institute of Educational Rps6archo
Department of Educational Experimentation.
Poul Erik Jensen.
Glass'size and individualization.
:Jensen, Poul Erik: Om deleiimer og deres an-
vendelse, (Devided.leasons and their appli
cation) Stencil, Copenhagen, The Danish In-
'stitute of,Educational,Research. 1971.
Klassestorrelser og undervisningsdifferen-h
tiering, (Class sizes and instructional dif-
ferentiatiOn)1, English summary. Copenhagen,
lhe'Danish Institute of Educational Re.search,
1973, No.75.'
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The teaching of the mothertongue takes place
partly in classes with about 26 pupils and
partly in devided classes (deletimer): of 13..
pupils. This gives possibilities of investi-
gation into the class size,efnct on the
individualization of instruction.
18 classes and 200 lessons were observed.
Clasproom observations of the lessons.. The
activities of.the pupils, the form of orga-
nisatiOn of the class and'the amount of.in-
diVidualization were, egistered at every
full minute. - In the statistical' analysis
the class size is regarded as an independent
variable, and pupil activity, the form of,
organization and the individUalization as
dependent variables.
The forM.of organization and the individua-
lization varies with the class aize.
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Time schedule:
Source ,,offinance
4 , NuMber ofresearchers:
7a1.
The project is completed and published in
Pciul Erik Jensen. Klassestorralse, og un-.
dervisniugsdiffepNtitring. Copenhagen:
"The. Danish Institute for Eld.uoational Re-
search, l975, No.,75 Summary.)
(bf. above).,
A projectof the Institute.
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Institution:
Project leader:
Project title:
, :Bibliographicreferences:
Background'and aims:
7'4
Scope:
-Methods:
The DaniSh Institute of Eddcational Research
in co-operation with ThkAssociation of
Youth. Schools, ThelPepartment of Educational-
Methodology assisted by the Department of
Educational Experiences.
Arne Kridtiansen.
Develppment of Youth Education: Evaluation-
and improvement..
.4.,
kristiansen,. Arne::Fynskematematikamrere
vellykket sitdieredse. (Mathematics masters
from Funen on a succesful study tour)' Ef-
terskolen, No.5, 1972: ppt 7-8./
Eleverne bedst,tjent med indiviaualiser t
undervisning.(Individualized instruction
being most beneficill to the Students), EF-
terskolen, No.'5, 1972: p.54
Materiale til individualiseret undervisning
i procentregiing, (Material for individua-
li sed instruction in calculation of percen-
taps), Eftprskolen, No. 5, 1975;,p.151.
BaSed upon an evaluation of educational
Processes in youth schools. The teacher
gro s in'co-operation with The Department
of E ucational Methodology makes practicalk.
prop sals for improving the solution to the
formulated problems. The propdsals for
"Provement are tried out in daily educatio-
nal practice t ey are then evaluated key
the teachers d the students, and are fur -
ther improved etc..
Nine teachers and their classes.
Analysis of goals, analysis. of preconditions,
evaluation planning, planning of improve- .
vent analysis,, action executioy" evalua-
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Plain findingsv
.Time ,schedule:
Source offinance:
:
\\Number ofresearchers:
,
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`lion execution, execution of impiovementa
and analysis.
The results will be published in a report,
in q.973.
March .1972 - December 1973:
'Support is provided-to the Association ofo
Youth School6 by The directorate for Youth
and Adult Education.
Nine tehel4s.one of which is the project
leader and two cbnsultants from The Danish
In4titute of Educational Research.
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InslitutionT: The Danish Institute of Educational Research
Project leader:
Projec itle:
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Department of Statisticsi
Gustav Leunbach
Methoda of assessingithe prognostic valua
of educational tests.
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
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Scope:
`Methods': J
Certain tests used .rgularlyfor prognostic.
purposds, ser e as the.m4teriai Apr an
investigation f the extent todwhich results
in these tests may explain school 'results
up to foup years. into the future.%The futu-
re results investigated are continuation of
schooling or not aftar.pertain termsj'as
well as the results of .a final examination.
Background factors included are age. at the
time of the test and geographic, and social
milieu.
Approx. 5000 pupils from gra e-5 were tes-
ted, in dictation and genera arithmetic;
further data as described above!
.The tests used yaarily'for purpOses of,
streaking after 5yearsof school in-the.
Metropolitanarea were one year given to a
ranqom seleClion of cla'sses in the rest of
the country;'the investigation 'oomprISes
these claSzes as well as a random selec-r
tion of classes, in the Metropolitan area
The immediatt results appear as. tables and
diagrams showing the relatioriship between
variables of the investigation.
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Main findings:
Time schedule:
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The aim of the investigation ieto develop,;
andtapply mtii'matical-statistical.models
:and methods of hypothesis testing forpeog-
nostical.purposes with due regard. to tie
character of the date: in,qrstidn.
The data obtainedby the investigationiis
being 'statistical analysed.
Source offinance:
Dtumber ofresearchers:
CI
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The Institute's regular budget.!-
1 part-time researcher, 3 part-time dpders.
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Indtitution:.
Proirct leader:/9
Project tit
Bibliographicreferences:
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ish Institute oft Educational Res rch
The, epartmant of Edupional.Experimentat on
Peer tyloi
Experiments on torching of-English in Fql-
keskplen (primary and. lower secondary
school),
Fl9rander, J.& Jansen, M: Research on tea-. j
E4glish in Danish schools 1959-1965.
Int. Rev: of Educ.Vol. 10, No 3, 1964ip/5.
31,2-325.
ylov, Peer:Skoleforsog i engelsk..,(School
%,\ experiments in English). Danmarks paidagogi-
. -ake inStitut, Nr.74,-Ounksgaard, 1972.,
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Backgroundandaimsr.
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Scope:
Methods:
-the purpose 9f the project!ip to.estiinate
the infl9pce of .a). grade level for'intro--
ductionEnglis,h as firstforeign languai
brlength\of,lessops ill) and c),
certain'aethod/material%Combinetions'an
ve,7pTent and achievement in
96 intat classes of which 46 from grade 4
and 39 from grade 6. A total A 1676 pupils
representing 9 schools in themuhicii5ality
of. Gladpaxe (Copenhagen).0
Grade level was contrasted by introducing
Fonglish in grade 4/and, as normal, in grade y
6. Length of lessons and method/material
combinations.varied only /inn grade 4-clasSes.
Achievement was epressed through silent
,/ reading tests in English and Danish at
fixedintervals: Intelligerioe and, some of-,
her variables were,control,variables
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Main findings:
Time schedule:1/4
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Source offinance:-.
Number ofresearchers:
4.
10aGrade 6.started and finished with the
best achkevem6nt (as measurtd).. Grade 4
showed a greater ImproveMeni in achieve-
ment. Retardates in Danish seemed to_ be
handicapped by. early English with the exi-
° ,sting methods etc.
Finished September, 1972.
Project of the Institute: Governmental.
English teachers; Danish teachers in the
local community; several,speciatidts in
larigdage and educational psychology.
1.
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Institution:
PtcYject leader:
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The Danish Institute of Educational
Research, Department of Tests.
Barge Prien
Project title: Construction of diagnostic tests in arith,-:
metic
Bibliographicref.erences:
Backgroundand aims: Developing tests which can help the-tea-
cher to plan the instruction according to
the knowledge and the weaknesses of the
pupils. These tests are not standardized,
achievement tests in'arithmetic but spe-,
cialy constructed to detect*the4upils'
systematic errors and misunderstandings /7-
relative to the Preequisites of the'task.,
Scope: Special-tests are constructed for diffe-
. rent-subject matters.
Methods:' Different parts of-the arithgetic curricu-o
lum are discussed. with experiefiCed teachers:
Pilot tests are constructed and tried-out
I,- on a group basiO. The tests are then re-
designed tp be used on an indiVidual'ba-,
sis for.a diagnostic purpo6e.-
Main findings:
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
. These tests-are,- among others sold by
the Institute to schools and teachers. They
pre mainly to )be used, in testing pupils with
considerable difficulties in arithmetic.
In progress.
Financed within the ordinary budget of the
Institute.
Number ofresearchers: 3 psychologiits, advisors in arithmetic.
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,k1stitution:
.1ro3eLA
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand alms:
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The Dani.sh Institute of Ed cational'Reseai-ch
Department of Tests..-%
Eorge Prien:00.
invetigations,of pupils' errors in ele--
uretry arithmetic. .
The aim is to describe:the kinds of errors
oharateristic of answers to different com*-
vbinations of elementary operations in arith-'
betic, and to investigate how the.kind and
number of errors depend on the components
of the combinations.'
1) 300. pupils from 3th-5th grade. II), Pub-2,
material. concerning umber and 4inds
of errors in the elementary ombinations.
Methods:, , Group testing, claSsificatice and statisti-
cal analysis of errors.
Main findings:' The aim of the project is descriptive but
since arithmetical operations depend on
mastery of the-fundamental Combinations, a
description of the laws of errors vn these
could be important for both rmedial arith-
metic and methodology of arittime 'nstrud-
,t tion.
Time schedule:
Source offinance:-/
Number ofresearchers:
In progress.
Financed within the ordinary budget of the
Institute.
1:psychblogist, .technical-assistane.
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Institution:
Project °leader:
Project tale:
BibliogrhphicreferenCes:
Backgroundand
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:
Time schedule:
S'eurce of'finance:
Number ofresearchers:
13'
The Daftish Institute of Educational Research.
Department of Tests.
Bgirge.Prien.
Investigatiops into the Endlish vocabulary
Of Danish pupils /
The investigation is composed of only:these
students who' have been taughtEnglish.as
foreign language. The aim is to investigate
vocabulary structure rather than extent,,
to construct and tryout tests for this r
purpose, and to develop methods for mime-
rical'description of the vocabulary of the
individual.
ZOO pupils possessing proficienby in Englfah
above elementaiT school education.
.Test construction with words trouped accor-
ding to frequency, grouptesting:3 statists,,-
cal analysis, use of mathematical moddls deL
veloped by Georg.Rasch.
The structure of pupils'. vocabulary can be
described by probabilistic models. There is
a relhtionship between the degree of mastery
of words from different frequency grOups.
In progress.
Financed within the ordinary budget of the
Institute.
1 psychologist, technical assistants, advi-
sors in the linguistics of Engll.sh and ma-
thematical psychology.
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histitutiOn:
Project leader:
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
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Backgroundand.aiths:
Scope:.
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The Danish institute of Educational Resea'rch
The'Department ofIducational Methodology.
Finn Rasborg.
Group prOblem solving: Evaluation, and
improvement in. teacher training.
Rasborg, Undervisningsmetoder kg ar-
bejdsmenStre (Instructional method5_ and
working patterns).,Copenhagen,.Muniksgaard,
1968.
Pmdago'Aisk proses- og produktanalyse,
(Pedagogical process and product analysis),
Copgnhagen,Munksgaard, 1969.
Group problem solving. Classroom Interac-
tion Newsletter, No. 2, 1972.'
The development project consists partly of
the preparation of a training course in
group problem solv,ing for training, and prac-
tising teachers. This'course includes not
only the educational and psychological as-
pects but also the teleirision techniques to
be employed.:-The research project includes
a study of scientific pethods applicable in
the investigation of .group problem solving.
-It also includes the construction of educa-
tional and,psychologicaltechniques. These
are to be used in a scientific description
of aspects of the group problem solving
process as such, especially in regard to-
evaluationand improvement of the process,
A group of four teachers are invited to
particlpate - all a.re'engaged in team tea:-
,ching in their school.
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Methods:, r
Mairkifindings:
Time schediale:/.
Source .offinance:
.Number ofresearchers:
.0 14a
The group problem solving process is' recor-
ded in a research,production-laboratory
(in. cooperation with The Daniph.Breadcasting
Coorperation, Gladsaxe Municipal. School .
System and Blaagaard Teachers Training,Col-
lege). The recorded processes are analysed
in a research analysis laboratory.The me-
thods of analysis are developed especially
for this investigation.
Will be published in the .publication series
Of The Danish Institute of Educational
Research.
The project is in progresb.
Governmental project of the Institute.
A number of teachers participating in the
training course, two technical assistants,
two course leaders, two TV-producers from
The Danish Broadcasting Cooperation, tech-
nical consultants, and:a consultant in so-
cial psycholjty, clinical psychology and
ecological psychology.
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Institution:,
Project leader:
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Main findino:
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
Number ofresearchers:
15
The Danish National.Institute of Sdcial
Research.
Erik Jr rgen Hansen...f
HF-undersogelgen (Su'rveyionHigher'Prep,-
ratory Course leading to Higher Education).
To investigate the social and geographical
background of applicants to the HF- Courses
and to investigate their plans 'forthe
future.
Sample consisting of 'every third applicant
in the spring of 1972, approximately 3000
people.
Postal questionaires.
An,article and a publication (report) on
this are expected to be published within
the first six months of 1973..
Data-collection May/June 1972, first part
.of the survey to be concluded in 1973, se-
cond part - a follow-up - is expectbd to
be executed in 1976...
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Financed by a special grant from Direktora-
tet for Gymnasieskolerne og HF.
1/3rd researchers, 1 student.
25
Institution:
Project leader:
Project title:
Bibliographicrefenences:
.Backgroundand aims:
or
The Danish National Imititute of nocia
Research.
Erik Jurgen Hansen...
Forlobsundersogelsen of en generation un.-1-
ges iradannelses og erhvervsvaig. (A Tonti-.
tudinal_study,on Educational and '(rocational
Careers of Generation of'Youths).
Drum, Bente:'The relationship between t%o-
'eial background, intellectual-level, and
thelposition in-the school system of 14
years. Study No. 20 of The Danish National
Institute Social Research. dopenhagen. A
1971, 144 P:.(With an English Summary) .
Andersen, Bent.Boghs. Aspekter af'den"kul-
turelle" barriere mo uddannelsessogning,
Study N. 21 og Th DanislyNational Insti-"
tute of Social ReAeardh. Copenhagen 1971.
234 pages.(With/separate Summary in the
English entitled: Social factors in the
first Selection in the Danish System),
.Andersen, Bent :ugh ?A Erik Jurgen Hansen:
Parents an the Schobl. Study No,. 25 of the
Danish Nationa Institute of Social Research.
Copenhagen 1972. 106 p. (With an English
Summary)... 7/HT1sen, Erik 3loiien: Lighed gennem uddannel-
se?' (Equality through education?.) Pamhlet
-No. 1 of the Danish. National Institute of
Social Research. Copenhagn 1972-.
(No English Summary.)
To study a generation- of youths and their
choice of education and vocation with re-
spect to clarifying the-relative importadce.
26 L
U
In
]restitution:
Project leader:
Project title:
Humanities Research Council.
'Mogens $Tansen.
Research on social, social-psychological
and social, pedagogical activities, func-
tions of the classroom teacher in the.
"fOlkeskken" (primary and lower secondary
Bibliographic.references:
Backgroundand aims:
school).
The project is aimed at a,description of
- 'the social, soar -pedagogical and social-
psychological w rk in the "folkeslcolen".
How does it influence the professional-.
pedagogical work? Where does it take place,
who performs it? And how is this work co-,
ordinated in relation toeach student?
Scope: Selected schools, clasges, students, Par:
Methods:
rents, teachers.
Observation of educational proCeduresin
the classroom, interviews, question#aires,
aftalysiPof literature.
Main findings: Results wi]4 be put'forward; th ir signifi-
Time, schedule:
,Sdurce of ,.
finance: .-
umber ofresearchers:
ah
canoe will.depend on their popularity.
The project was started oh December 6th,A
1972 and Should be completed during:autuMn
1975.
Appropriation'via
Council.
Humanities ResearCho
4 pedagogical psychologists, 2 pedagogical-.
ly educatdd students, 1 secre-O.ry,a num-
ber of other students, teachers and others.
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Institution:
0, Project leader'':--
. Project title:
(Bibliographicreferences:
Ba6kground.and aims:
Scope;
Methods:
Main findings:
Time schedule:
Source" of4'inance:
*lumber ofresearchers:
p
18
Teknologisk Institut, /-.11vervspmdagogisk
Afdeling,(Institute of Technology4
Benny Dylander.
Description of managerial steering, models
for investment in education in companies.A
ALThe results 1 be published in self-
contained r& ort.
The object of the project is to record And
describe the ways in which the companies 4
define and accomplish their training pol -.
cy, especially in regard to each company's
total investment in training, and in re-
, gard.to each employee!s eUucation..
The project cover86 selected firms witshin
trade and industry.
Two structuralizeji interviews will be made'
in each firm: One with top management and
another with the h ofa,department.The
collected data will be analysed, after
which a series of applicable managerial
steering models can be described and eva-
luated.,
The results'can be applied in the planning
of investment involved, in trade and in
education in companies.
The project is in progress.
Financed by the Institute.
t
Institution: Ministry of Education, Vocational Training
Dept.'Research Council for Basic Vocational
Education. -
Project leaden: Carl JOrgensen.
Pi4jectttle: Experimental Vocational Training.
"Bibliographicreferences: Danish Governmentreport: No. 612 on basic
vocational training. Act No. 219 (June 7,
Background andaims:
Scope:
N
1972). Comments to the-Billon eNparimental
vocational trainingf
Purpose: to provide an educational system(
of vocational training for young people
with a previous school education'of 9 "ydtks.
Students:
(intake Of newstudents)
1972-73:
1973-74:
1200,
2500,
1974-'75:
1975-76:
32C
6400
Methods: Drafts from specialist groups under the*rei1-
search committees, discussions by'groupg o1c'
teachers, approval cif,/experimental plannin
tY research committees, the Re sarch Counc 1,
and the Ministry of Education, the accomp 'sh -.
ment of experiments in schoql evaluatio
of test results by the above institutions
Main findings: The accomplishment of a new educational s s
tem for more than 50% of a particular year
of birth, possibly in connection with a 12
year compulsory education.
Time schedule: Period of r earch: To 1975-76 incl.(re-
vision of the Act). Further extension of the
project as part-of national planning
expected to take place in 1978'479.
2J
(i)
Sthirce offinance:
Number 'ofresdarchers:
Govern:rel.-.
0 It
19a
Research Council; 6 research committees,
and a number of interdisciplinary boards.
S
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1
f
71.
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Institution: J "Le Royal Danish College of EdudatiOnl Studies
The Department of Civics and History,'
Sand the Department of ,Geography
Project leader: Mette Kofoed Bjornsen, Ove Biilmanib#
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
Innovative work aiming at the "contribution of
civics to the teaching of social studies in
:primary and lower vcondary school.
-Background Jand aims: The ai'm'of the'projeCt is
a) to frame courses for professional teachers
during,which they will become familiar with
social conceptions, methods,'Ld models and
gain, proficiency in ap plying such devices
12) to aid-the dev elopment of pilot courses of
instruction (plannirig, framing of goals and
content, etc.)
Scope:
Methods: ad a) courses which -are planned so far and
carried Lput 21eart are those on
1. population -"/ (
-2. local society,
3. the Danish society, desdription of
society
4. the Danish society, structure,and
economic. policy
5. the international society
ad b) the pilot courses of instruction are
organized in co-operation with the local
education authorities of the municipality-J
of Copenhagen.
3i
0 a
Main findings: The aims.Mentioned'under a) and b) aboye will
-led to.the development of training courses
for instructors with a view to a rapid and
effective dissemination of innovation
Time schedule: Date of completion unknown.
4 Source of'finance:
'
I
Number ofresearchers:
°
Temporarily financed by the Royal Danish
College of Educational Studies and the,
Municipal.itfof,Copenhagen (research depart-
ment of the local school board).
In future- it will be attempted ,to 'involve
more oollaborators and interested students
in the project.
.
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21
Institutionl. The Royal Danish College of. Educational Studies
Department of General' Psychology
Pr6ject leader: , Mogens Brun
Project title: Measurement of the reinforcement value of con:
ditioned reinforcers in.progresiye ratio
schedules.
Bibliogrephicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:
Time scheddle :
Source offinanc :
Brun, Mogens: A functional analysis of positivl
conditioned reinforcement in second:order _schel,-
duPes of reinforcement. Copenhagen: Master's
thesis. University of Aarhus, 1972.I-
The,aim is. to analyse thelunction of condition-.
ed reinforcers in situations of learning'. In
severtl theOretical behaviour systems ,condition -/
ed reinfor'cers have obtained an important
function by describing- a complex course of be-. .
haviour with only few facts dtqut their effect
upon the behaviour itself.
Background: The project originates front a dis-
cussion running for three years in a nuMber
'of journals.
Conditioned reinforcers do act to increase the
amount of "work'in animal experiments.,
Commenced on the 15th October, 1972
Ekpected date of compketiOn: 15t1rApril, 1973
Humanities Research Council
The Royal Danish College of Educational StudieJ.
3t3
2
Inbtitution: The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
Department ofAeligious Knowledge
K. E. Bugge
Pilot coursesN
of instruction in religious
knowledge in primary and lower Secondary
schools with SpeCial reference to'inpOAration'
in materials and methods.'
Project le.ader:
Project title:
Bibliographic Bugge, K.E.: Roskilderforsoget. 'Vligions-referen&es: lmreren. Mai 1973 pp. 41 -54.
Backgroundand aims:
01.
Scope:
Methods:
In these years traditional educational
patterns are changing in all thckle countries
where instruction in religious knowledge ,
constitutes an integrated part of the curri-'
cuUm'at schools run py the public
authorities.
The aim ofthis project is to contribute to
the internationally-growing cooperation within
the pedagogy of religious instruction by in-
vestigating pilot courses ofinstructiOn with
the aim of developing new material' and methods.
Pilot' study: 193cperimental instruction of two°'/ ,
classes in grade 5: a Pilot group, and a
control group. Eiraluation through question-
naires and semi-clinical interviews.
Main findings: New educational material and methods to
facilitate the understanding of difficult
topics within the field of religious-know--
ledge.
%Time schedule: ePilt study carried out during Jan.-April 1972.
Final implqmentation in 1974
34°
17,
A
Sour'c'e offinance:
Number of,,researchers:
;The Royal Danish College of Educational'
Studies, tota elcpenses Still unknown.
The above mentioned,fiveethembers of the team,
Teachers conducting religious inptruction of
the two 5th trades, and,a secretary..
ctaaer
3a4
r
O
InstitutiOn: The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies, Department of Development and
'Clinical Psychology.
Project leader Marie tensholt
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:
Description and comparison of. various pedago-
gical approaches used in pre-school programmes
and compensatory education in the U.S. and
Denmark.
Evaluation of-pre-school programmes, according
to how well 'they have reached the programme
goals. Training of teachers in the various
methods of instruction as used iif the diffe-.
rent programmes.
'Time schedule: Stage I: analysis of compensatory education
in the U.S. completed in March 73.
Sour offinance: .
'Stage II: observation and description of Danish
pre-school ,lorcgrammes to be completed,
4 we hope, by the end of 1973.
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies.
36
I
a
Institution:.
Projectleader:
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:
Time schedule:
Source offinance,:
k
Mk'
The Royal Danish College alducational
Studies
Department of Pedagogy, Educational Psychology
and Social Psychology.
Jorgen,Gregerse
, 24
Student evaluation of instruction.
'
Provision of mateig.al concerning the partici-
pantsf.experience of the instruction. Creation
of system for student evaluation of instruction.
Interviews, 'questionnaires, rating scales.
Project inteMpted in 1972, but will be Conti-nued later on.
The Royal Danish Colle,ge of Educational
Studies.
3
I 4
0
.Institution:
'Prc,2cct leader:
Project ip.tle:
.3
BibliographicLeferences::
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:
Time schedUle:
4
Source offinanbe:
/0
-,25
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies -
Danish Department
Elisabeth Hansen
Investigation of the syntax of the language
spokentin standardised situations, by
children of 4, 6 and 8 years of age.
Exposure of lines of development in tile
syntax of childrens' language.
Estimated time of completion: I973. It is
planned that the findings will be published
in a series of educational journals dealing
with the Danish language.
Humanities Research Council, The Royal Danish
College of Educational Studies
Institution:
a-
Prooect leader:
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
26
The Royal Danish College ,of Educational
Studies.
Department of Didactics and Methodology..Sv.lHesselholdt, U. Kaad, L. Lier
Analysis of the biosocial background of the
child in relation to emotional-, cognitive-
and motor development.
A
The purpose of the projeat ors to thrbw light
on the causalities of emotional-, intellectu-
al- and neurological development with special
reference to the emergence of difficUlties in
learning.,
0
1.84 children, chosen from the Univensity
Hospital Investigation 1959-61 on he signip-
cdnce of _pregnancy and delivery for the health
and development ,of the infant.
The 184 children (aged 10 ;to 11 years) are
distributed on one group comprising children
with perinatal complications and one group
withOut such complications.
Children's tests, interviews of mothers,
qu4t;onnaii-es to the teachers of Danish and
mathematicsf
Planning: May 196?- 1Vay 197o, Data collection:
197o-1972, processingl 1972-1974.
Grants from the National Care of Mentally
Deficient And the Humanities/Research Council.
3.iz
Institution:
Project leader:
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:,
Backgroundand aims:
- Scope:
Meth6ds:
Main findings:
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
27-
The p!pyal Daqi h College of Educational
Studies'
Department of General Psychology
Jergen Hunsdahl
Experiments on subliminal stimulations.
Research into a'methodology for the motivation
of visual 'perception.. investigation-of the
relationship bet*een personality, motivation,
and perception./
The ptoject is part of basic research within
the field of Educational Psychology.
The aim is'to investigate the influenc'e of
motivative psychological factors in general
perception and theeffect of indirect.a
influence.
Commenced in 1966. Still in progress.
The National Reseatch B rd-
Humanities.Researc ounc
The RoyaIDanish College" f Educational
Studies
4d
J
L'_
,
Institution: The Royal Danish, College of EducationalP
di
Project. leader:
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Maih findingst'
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
sb,
Studies
Department of Development and Clinical
Psychology. AO
Mardhen R. Jensen
Survey of children placed in special
educational groups and trends pointing to-
wards mental,con6'equenses of,"organised-
cerebral affection".(
The aim. is to alter the pedagogs' view of
retarded readers and hence to open these up
to new educational meaiureS.
20 children, 10 in special classes, 1.9 as a
control group._
"Blind":tests by a clinical psychologist, the:
results which are compared to the knowledge
of "reality'".
1.
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
44
Institution:
Project leader:
Project title:0
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:.
Methods:
Main findings.:
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
fl
Thy Royal Danish College of Educational
Sti-ies
Department of. DeVelopmental and Clinical
P§ychology.
Reimer Jensen
Youth and their relation to society.
29
Denise Kandel & Gerald S. Lesser: Youth intwo worlds.
The project'constitutes_part of a major
investigation into the conditions of youth.
The initiative was taken by the Humanities
Research Council.
Questionnaires' to young people, their parents,
and teachers, in U.S.A. and Denmark.
Published in 1971 in "Youth in tidb worlds",
Specific problems are still being,worked.up.
The study isNplanned for a period of 5 years.
Humanities Research Council
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies.
42
Or
. Institution:
Project Leader:
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims.
;
1,4
30
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies.
.Finn,Lambert
Storstrom project
Sv. Ellehammer,Andersen and Finn Lambert:.
SpeciacEducation. General aspects. Vol.
I & II, The Roydl Danish C011ege of Educational
Studies.
1) DeScription'of the situationand function
of special-educational arrangements in the
country. 2) Treatment of the information
"-gained under item 1) with the purpose of
F. advancing a hypothesis for a solution to the
problem of special education. 3Y E..perimental
teaching to test the hypothesis.
Scope: 69 classes with a total of 1222 pupils dis-
persed at 16 schools in the.county.
Methods: Observation of teaching. dUestionnaires.
Te ing. Data processing. Subsequent analysis'
of th obtained information with a view o
as ect which possibly influence the implemen !
tation a d accomplishment of special education.
Main,findings: Illumination of conditions affecting the im-
plementation and accomplishment of-special
education (in the county).
Time schedule: 1970/71 - 1974/75
Sourceoffinance:
at_
Grants from the Ministry of Education 1970/71
43
- 1971/72
r
Number ofworkers:
,30 a'
3 researchers employed by Ihe'Royal Danish
College :of Educational Studi,es, Teachers,
the countyts school psychiatrist, part-time
student ksistance. f
44 I
o
Institution:
Project leader:
Project:title:
Bibliogrephicreferences:
Backgrounand.aims:
6
31
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
Department ofrDevelopment and Clinical
Psychology.
Erik Lambrechtsen
The normal intelle6tual developpent of adults
and ageing people.
Lambrdchtsen, Erik: The normalf, intellectual
development of the human senescence- period.
Copenhagen: Thesis submitted fpr.the Candi-
date Degree of Psychology, 1966, Sop.
)The research aims at submitting a founda ion
to the evaluation of applied adult edUcation
and its scope. It is carried out as a metho-
dological analysis of inirestigatiops
elucidating alterations to the'I.Q. capacity
with increasing age.
Scope:
Methods: rt
Main findings:
Time schedule: Expected date of completion in 1975
SourCe of , ,...
finance: . The Royal Danish College of Educational.
Studies
4
institutions:
Project leader
Project title:
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:,
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
a
The -Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
Hans Lammers t
, .
Analysis of the aim, content,-methCas of,....,
.
work/ and evaluation of the instruction,d.n. 4
German in primary and lower secondary sshool.
111
xThe purpose of the projeSt is to investigate
whether the expressed aims are realistic
compared to'the actual teaching, and to
indicate which mlpil activities may encourage
,the teaching and learfting:
Questionnaires to teachers of German. he
project commences at trade 7 and, is intended
to be kept in progress till the end of school
attendance.
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies.
T.*
4.
Institution:.
Project leader:.
Project title:
t Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:.
Time schedule:
SoUrce offinance:
\
The Royal Danish*CoW.dge of Educational
Studies
Department of Music and Musicology
Bent Lorentgen
Creativity in the theory of music from infant'
and primary school to the level higheland
further education.
Nor
The project is largely aiming at.a trans-
ference of those aspects of creativity
research which are applicable, to the field
of music.
It is ende.avoured.to apply-as large parts of
the ex sting psychological theories as possible!
to tile ogy of music.-
Tests of pupils in primary and lower secondary
school and university students.
A publishing hou e specializing in music will
,undertake the publication of a book called
"Creative Theory of Music" which is based on
results derived from the project.
Estimated time of completion: 1st November 1973
No new acquisitions of material.
7
34
Institution': 'The-Royal Danish College of Educational.
StUdies
Physics Department 2*
Project leader: Hans LUtIven% -
Project title: Experimental instruction of physics ,and
chemistry in grades.1 to 6.
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
The aim of the projec1.6 to investigate the
ways in which, the teaching of topics in
physics and chemistry may contribute to the
fulfilment of the general purpose of-the--
school.
14 classes of grad6-1, 31 classes of grade
31.olasses of grade.6, and,S classed of
grade 4.
,Methbds: Work books and teachers' guidance.
Main findings:
Time schedule: Commenced in September 1970
Sourceloffinance: The Royal Danish College of Educational'
Studies
tiz
".
4o
145oject leader:
Project title:-
BibliographicreferenCe:
I-;ackgroundano
Scope:
-Methods:
Main findings:
Time scpedule:
Source offinance:
J
4
0
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
:Department of General-Psychology
K. B. Madsen
Computer - assisted theory analysis
Development of exaCt methods, -including com-
puter prograps, for meta-scientific fitudie:;
payticula ly of psychological theories.1-r
Secondaril ; development o4 computer-assisted, ..teaching pograms applicable to the instrutt',ion
of theoreti al psychology. Development of a-
simulation odel reproducing the logical
structure ofz-i theory.
Humanities pesearch CoUnClia
The_ Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
L.
4
4
.0
Institution: The Royal Danish College of Educational'
Ssudies.
Department of Didactics and Methodalogy.
36
Project leader: Egli Nilsen
Project title: DiffLthion of innovations in adult education.
Bibliographicrefertences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Main Findings:
Time schedule:
Source. offinance:
.0"
The purpose IV the project is to elucidate
factors prom'ting or ,obstructing the'diffusion
of innovation in adult education.
Historical, computer simulation and experiMen-
The project has just started.
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
0
s
v
iristitution; The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
D4artment of Pedagogy, Educational PsychOlogy,'
and Social Plychology
kr._Jject leader: Mogens Nielsen
Prdject title: Idealistio,pedagogy
Bibliographicreferences:
Backgroundand aims: The elucidation of idealistic featUtRes,
current in modern education,
Scope:
Methods:
Maip findings:
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
4 4
The Royal Danish Collegedof Eduiational
Studies
es*
O
1
Institution: ' The Royal Danisp College of Educational
Studies
Chemistry Department
Project leader: Peter Norrild
Project title: Methodological transformation of the chemistry
instruction in primary and lower secondary
school from the present deduciive form
qentralized around the teacher to an experi-
mental and-More inductive form centralized
around the pupils.
refergaces:,
Backgroundand aiMs:. The aim is to find new ways of teaching by
axperimentatiOn.
ocope: Pilot instruction at 15 schools. A total of
600 .
Methods
Main findings:
Time Schedule:
Source offinance:
ti
Commenced'in 1972. The project is planneeto
run, .over a couple of years: Publication by
the College.
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies.0
2
Institution:
Project-leader:
Project title:
Bibliographicrefei-encel
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings.;
Time schedule:
Source offinance:
Y.1
IThe Royal Danish College of Educational
itudies
Department of Developthental and Clinical/Psychology.
Thomas Sigsgaar
/Social adjustment of school starters
The aim is to elucidate factors decisive to
the adjustment of school starters and the
interaction of those factors. In connection
with social and emotional adjustment the
effect'of-support to discovered minus
variants is investigated.
'20 Schools, 21 classes which started school
in 1970.
Tests and interviews'
5
Commenced in:1970. Still in progress
iiUmanities'Research Council
The Royal Danish College of'Educational
Studies .
r
Institution: The Royal Danish College of Educational
Project leader:
*Project title:
.Bibliographicreferences:
Studies
Department of Pedagogy, Educational
PsychologY, and Social Psychology'
Sv. Skyum-Nielsen
Development of school, organization.
Backgroundand aims: Tha aim' is to provide material gained by
experience on how various developmental
programs of organization in schools are
applied.
Scope:
Methods:
Main findings:,,-
Time schedule:
!Source offinance:
Commenced in spring 1971
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
1. I
40
o
z.
Institution: The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies-
Department of Pedagogy,4Educational Psychology
and Social'Psychology
Project leader: Sv. Skyum-Nielsen
.Project title: The conception of and attitude towards various
persons of authority, primarily tht teacher,
as experienced by pupils between 10 and 15
years of age.
.B bliographicre rences:
Backgroundand aims:
ti
0
The purpose of the project is to examinee how
the tea,cher as'a person of authority is con-
ceived by the pupil. Clarification of the
connections between the pupilts,conception
of the teacher, his placing Cn the classroom
climate, and -his final leaving of the, school
system.
Scope: The project is part of a cross - national study:
Authority, Rules, and Aggression. The Sociali7
zatlon of childFen into compliarfce systems.
U.S. Department of Health, Education,and Wel-
fare. Office of Education. University of
Chicago,March 1969
Methods:
Main findings:
Time schedule:
Questionnaires and'intertiews of approx.
1400 children in ,grades 4, 6, and 8.
A publication will presumably come out in
1973:
Source offinance: : The Social Science. Research:Caupcil
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies'
I!)
5o
V
(7.
"Institution:
Project leader:
Projadt title:
Biblitgraphicreferences:
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Methods:
4-2
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
Department of Physics
Poul Thomsen,.
Methods and ways ,in the teaching of
physics.
Thomsen, Poul: Metoder og veje i den ele-
mentmre,fysikundervisning 1 (Copenhagen,
Gyldendaiske Forlag 1969, 365 IS.)
The aim is to analyse some possible ways in
which fundamental topics- of,, physics might
be taught.
Different 'ways of presenting the topics in
existing textbooks are analysed and com-
pared..Up tb 1969 physics was taught in a v
very old-fashioned way in most countries.
Therefore it has been easy to suggest
new ways in which the teaching of physics
might beimprov'ed and modernized. Some-
times the development of new methods has
included construction of new equipment.
Often new ad,ternatives are developped
And discussed together with the existing
ones. Some of the new sUggestions are '
introduced and tested in Danish textbooks
of physics used in the Danish Primary.
School.
Main findings:
Time schedule: Commenced in 1963, still in progress.
Source of fillanee: ° The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies.1
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The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
Department of Developmental and Clinical
Psychology
Hans Vejleskov
Survey of the language spoken by children.
N A
Analysis of sentence structur applied by
children-aged 4 to 8 rears. Su, plementary
observation ..of e.g. the use of gesture.
Analysis. of syntax in primers, textbooks
and exercises. a
Analysis 6f syntax in picture exercises by
Greenlandic .c.hildren before and after a
one-year stay in Denmark.
Analysis of syntax in. language 'spoken
by adult imbeciles.
Analysis of the language spoken by feeble-
minded school-children.
411
Publication in 1973
Humanities Research Council
The Royal Danish College of Educational
Studies
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Insquction:
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University-of Copenhagen
Institute for Studies in Higher Education(
Inger Bruhns
Therelationship)etween,cognitive style and
the utilization of offered courses and other
instructional media.
Bruhns, I.: Report to The Pqnish Research
Council. Aug. 1972 (Stencil)
The purpose is to study the relationship-
between cognitive style as investigated by
'pfsychological tests and the utilization pf
offered courses and other instructional media.
Twenty-five students at the Dental College,
Aarhts.'
Psychological Testing, Interviews, Question-
naires.
Not yet known.
'Ehe collection of data is completed. The
project will be completed in 1973.
A 2-year grant from The Danish Research
Council.
One.
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4Institution:
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% University- of Cop6nhagen
Institute for Studies iniqugher Education
Helge Dohn
The significance of the level of aspiration
of the student as a factor in CAI (Computer
Assisted Instruction).
Dohn, H. et al.: CAI undervisningsprogram i
Fortran (CAI instructional program in Fortran),
Copenhagen 1972.(duplicates).
Kopstein, F.F. & Seidel,.R.J.: The Computer as
Adaptive Instructional Decision Maker.
Alexandria, Vir. HumRRO, 1970.
The purpose of the study is to investigate the
importance of the level of aspiration as-a
parameter in an instructional decision making
model'in-CAI.The level of aspiration is a
well described psychological fad-tor but its
importance for learning is not yet` known. Some
experiments,will be carried out.
Not yet decided.
Quasi-experiMental
The CAI program is in Fortran
jot yet known
The project is in progress. Initiated May 1972.
Probable Ate for completion Spring 1-974. The'
CAI program should be completed in August 1973.
The University budget and a grant from IBM
research foundation.
Number ofworkers: -Three in total, two student assistants.
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InstitUlo
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University of Copenhagen
Institute for Studies in Higher Education
?le B. Thomsen
The Study Structure at7the University of
Copenhagen
Thomsen, Ole Studiestrukturen ved Koben-,
havns iversitet (The study Structure at the
University of Copenhagen)
(Monograph, to be published 1973)
The organization of syllabuses at the Univer-
sity of Copenhagen is remarkable in various-
ways. For example, all of them lead to a
qualification intended for teaching at the1.1upper, secondary level or in higher education
(kandidat examination) rather than to an
academic degree. Apart from the arts they'all
comprise ,r7 Years of study in one subject; the
general educational background having been
taken care'-of by the gymnasium (upper secon-
dary school)'etc. This_oltanizational struc-
ture was set up in the University Statutes of
1788. The aim of the
the ideas underlying
seek explanations in
social conditions of
study has been 'to describe
this structure and to
the intellectual and
that age.
Data concerning university education 1700- 1788.
Analysis of the Statutes of 1788 on the basis
.of the state of affairs in the University in
the decades preceding 1788, sources of law,
the public debate on university matters and
prpposals for reform in that same period.,
GO
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46 a
Thel idea behind the study structure id
dominated by a view of the University as a
governmental agency for recruitment .0f,
governmental officials tot serve the absolute
monarchy, and for increasing the material
well-being of the citizens.
,Commenced in 1966. A typescript for publication
was completed in 1971.
A fellow-ship granted by the University of
Copenhagen for the Period of 1966-1970.
One.
o
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Institution: University of Copenhagen410
Sociological InstituteInstitute:
Project leader:
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Bibliographicreferences
.Professor Kaae Svalastoga
Project Metropolit
Cawood, Tttrick: Computer qierminology.4,
Sociologiske Meddeleiserk Vol. 12,/,
:1967/68, pp. 117-128.
Janson, Carl-Gunnar: 1,roject Metropolitan.
Acta Sociologica, Vol. 9, 196,6p.
pp. 110-115. '
Manniche, Erika Forskningsprojekt Metropolit.
Biologiske og Sociale VilkAr omkring
87 Andssvage Drenge. (Research project
Metropolit. Biological and social
conditions for 87 mentally deficient
boys). S.A. Nyt, 7. Arg. nn.
pp. 35 -40.
Manniche, Erik, og Berg Hauge, Lise: Udvik- ;
lingshmmmede Born - biologiske og
sociale Aspekter. (Retarded children -
biological and social aspects)
Psykisk UtvecklingshUmning, 3, 1969.
Manniche, Erik,' og Arg, Hauge, Lise: Quelques
donnee bio-sociologiques sur 1,01igo-.
phrenie. Sociological Microjournal,
Vol. 7, 1973.
Svalastoga, K.: Longitudinal Research Design.
International Journal of Sociology,
Vol. 11, 1970, pp. 283-291.
Svalastoga, K.: Measurement of Responsibility.
Social Science Information, Vol. 9,
'pp. 75-85.
Backgroundand aims:
Scope:
Alethods:
47a
A Carried out simultaneously in the Greater
Stockholm, and in the Greater Copenhagen
areas. 01:Aective:-To follow a generation of
yoUng people Rf about 10,000 154s from the
time of-their birth in 1953 to their thir-.
tieth year with a view to ascertaining
connections between social background factors
and careers, deviant behaVior, and adaptation
to family life. Main aim: of the study is to
deal with social mobility - consequently
major emphasis is put on such parametric
values .that seem to be of major importance
to, research on social differentiation
generally..
Sample: All b9ys born in 1953 in Greater.
Copenhagen n mbering about 10,000 boys.
Started in 19 5. Basic data collected in 1965, Ali
1966, and 1968-69. Final data will be collected II"
in the late seventies and around 1980.
1953: information from the midwife reports
comprising de-ails of the newborn, the mother,
and the occupatioA of father.
1965: school invesiiiation included four
,items:
a) intelligence test with three subscores,-
spatial, arithmetic, verbal
this was the test of Hgrnqvist adapted by
Weltzer;
b) creativity4
test (Mednick adapted by
Weltzert);
c) school class popularity,'a series of
sociometric questions; and
d) achievement at-p_tudes;-,education41,
occupgtipnal and leisure-time interests.
110
Methods:
47 b
1566 two tests were administered, a reading
test and an arithmetic test. At the same time,
the'choals provided information on the address
of the boys, the occapation of the fathers and
the present position of the hoy in-the- school
system; marks were not collected.
1968-69 s survey of the families involved in
the study was perforMed by interviews. 3,165
mothers were selected, and the sample was
stratified by the results of the 1965
'intelligence tests of the boys.
Main fin ings:
Time sche ule: In progresls,
Source offinance: Statens Samfundsvidenskabelige Forsknings-
rad (Governmental Fund) and University of
Copenhagen.
Number of I
workers: Research staff: 6, programmer and coder: 2
Nth
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Institution: University of Aarhus, The language laboratory.
Project leader: Erik Andersen, Anita Kvamme, Eivind Landmark.
`Project title: Ihtensive to aching of Swedish and Norwegian
to students of Danish at the University of
Aarhus.
Bibliographicreferences:
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Scope:
Methods:
. Mawr findings : -
Time schedule:
Evaluation of the effects of an intensively
run course and of a traditionally run course
in the neighbouring langueges.
In 1971/72: 4 pilot groups of 20 subjects.
Two groups,doing_Swedish and the other two
Norwegian. The subjects of experimfint: 1,st
year students of Danish at the University
of"Aarhus.-
Parallel teaching applying identical material
to groups taught intensively and to groups
taught traditionally. Tests before the commence-
ment of the course and after the termination.
Further tests 6 months later.
The project is in progress. Commencod in
September 1971.
Source offinance: University funds.
Number ofworkers: 3 researchers/teachers, technician.
( 65\
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'49
University of Aarhus, The language laboratory.
Carsten Kjxr Andersen, Erik Andersen,
Frede Ostergaerd.
Aptitude test.
The test is worked out at the requeSt of the
English Department, Aarhus University and
Kali sproghejskole, Ronde:
Aim: to ascertain a testmaterial which can
form the basis of
a) distribution of pupils in classes
b) drawing up .of teaching progress in classes
and fof. individual pupils
c) construction of teaching material.
Provisional experimental group of 80 persons.
Pupils from Kale sproghojskole, age: 18-30
years.
Construction of preliminary material for
testing of skill in language (perception,
grammatical understanding,' vocabulary).
Testing of the iaterial on experimental
groups.
The project is in progress. Started October
1972.
University funds.
3 research workers /teachers, 1 technicaan,
1 secretary.
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aal
5o
Institute of Psychology, University of
Aarhus.
Associate Pi-ofessor. Knud-Erik Sabroe
longitudinal investigation of attitude
change 1972-1977:
To analyze the effects of major systems
(academic studies) on the change Of attitudes
of the individual student(s).
Area of interest: Political attitudes (in a
broad sense).
2oo students of plychology, 2oo law- students,
loo dental-students, loo male conscripts..
A 1o5 items likert-type attitude queftionnaii-e
is issued to the same,subjects in five succeed-
ing years (or as long as the duration of.their
course).
None so, far.
Implications: To sensitize the students to
the effects of the systems they participate
in.
Project just started:
Research council for political sciences:
7.000 D.kr. Institute- grants.
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T,
(Pr.:,,jectnumbers
educationAr*;:tude testattitude changeAudio- visual ittstructionAuthority
31, 37495o4441
. ,
Class size . ' 7
Cl,c8room observation techniques'',4Cco-tIve r,roes5es
Communication. skills 25, 4r'ompensatoy education'
le23
Creativity 1 35cross- national study . 23, 29
DanishDevt,lopment psychologyDiagnostic testing
Educntionai aimsEducational choiceEducational developmentEducational methodsEducational prognosticationEducation in musicEnglishEvaluation of educationExperimentation
Foreign languagesFurther education
German
InstructionInstructionInstructionInstructionIrstruction:ntAructi.csInstruction
1
r
a 7,
3, 4, 25
11, 12
52, 371(,
3,
33 ,1o,
3
O
45
13
22,23,24,37
5,10,13,32,4b, 19
32
- computer assisted instruction :, 35,
- individualized instruction 7 4
- instructional materials 3, 22- instructional process 2'
- language instruction 4, 5, lo, 4-- remedial instruction 11, .2
I.,ngUage developmentUlhguage proficiencyicgrning difficultiesLor,fitudinal investigation
Mo 4 va t on
Go
f.:40
5o, 51
04
'
d4
Pre§chool education -1; 3; 23 .
Primary education ;. 2,3,L.41!1,12,17Problem solving ti 64 14
Reading 6, 28 .
Retardad pupils , . o . 000 El . .." ;.b
.28, 43
..
Science 34,, 38, 42School adjustment 49School organization 4oSecondary education ,. . 13, 1
'Social backgrOund Ms 9, 15, 16, 26,47Socialization 41 /
Social mobility 47.Special education .4 28, 3oStaff training
in
18
Teacher behaviour 2, 17.
Teacher training 14, 2o, 23Teaching arithmetic 1;1, 12Teaching civics 2oTeaching .Danish , 3, 4,, 5 :
Teaching drama 18Teaching religidts knowledge 22TeachingScandinavipn languages 48.11achingmethods a., 2
Television techniquesf
14. ,
University education - 4$, 50'
47-Vocational choice ''16,
Vocational training 1.9 I
Workbooks 3
Youth ., 8, 29k,
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cr
INDEX' OF TEACHERS',
AAlersen, 'E. 48, 49
I ,*Biilmann, 0.. goBruhns, I. 44Brun, M. 2fBugge, K.E. 22.
Di,derichsen, A,Dohn4 H. 45Dylander, B. 18
..
G9nsholt, M. 23Gregersen, J. .M-
-,,
Hansen, E.Hansen, E.J.Hesselholdt, S.Hunsdalil, J.
2515,26'27
1
Jansen, M. 2, 3, 4, 17 1
Jensen, J.A. 6
Jensen, M.R. 28Jensen, P.E. 7 .
.
Jensen, R. 29Johannessen, S. 22Jorgensen, C. 19
,4 ._
A
Kjaer Andersen, C. 49Kofoe Bjornsen, M. 20
.
Kristianen, A. 8
Kvamme, A. 48
Lambe'rt, F. 30Lambrechtsen, E. 31-Lammers, H. 32 gLandmark, E.' 8Leunbach, G. 9
Lorentzen, B. 330Lutken, H., 34
.
Madsen, K.B. 35Mylov, P; 10
'Nielsen, E. . 36
Nielsen, M.. 37Norrild, P. -38
Prien, B. 11, a2, 13
Al
Ra1d Hansen, V. 6
Rasborg, F. 14
rtabroe, K.E. 5oSigsgaard, T. 39Skyum-Nielsen, S. 4, 41Svalastoga , K. 47
Thomsen, D.B. 46Thomsen, P. 42
ejlskov, H. 43
Ostergaard, L) 49
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