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16. Functional Capacity And Physical Environmenal Demand. Exploration of Factors Influencing Everyday Activity and Health in the Elderly Population
Sammanfattning : The general aim of this thesis was to explore relationships between functional capacity, environmental factors, everyday activity, and health in the elderly population. Initially, the Enabler, an instrument for assessment of the physical home environment's accessibility, was translated to Swedish and revised, and tested for reliability and validity. LÄS MER
17. Lärares och elevers interaktion i klassrummet : Betydelse av kön, ålder, ämne och klasstorlek samt lärares uppfattningar om interaktionen
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate classroom interaction. Of central importance are the following questions; Does gender of pupil, gender of teacher, age of pupils, subject taught and class size have any importance for the classroom interaction? What conceptions of interaction with pupils do teachers have?Data have been collected by two different methods – structured classroom observations and focus groups. LÄS MER
18. The importance of personality, IQ and learning approaches : Predicting academic performance
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present doctoral thesis was to examine to what extent personality traits and approaches to learning contribute to academic performance in upper secondary school (high school), after controlling for the well-known fact that general intelligence accounts for a large part of the variance. The general proposition of the thesis is that personality traits are stable dispositons and therefore predispose an individual to behave or act in a specific manner (Costa & McCrae, 1976). LÄS MER
19. Essays on inputs, admissions and returns to education
Sammanfattning : Paper [I] analyses the associations between computer use in schools and at home and test scores by using TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) data for more than 900,000 fourth-graders in 2011 and 2015. Pupils who used computers at school, especially those who used them frequently, scored lower than students who never used computers. LÄS MER
20. Geographic Labour Mobility - Causes and Consequences
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters. The first chapter studies the causes of internal migration, the second studies the earnings effects of internal migration, and the third analyses what could be perceived as an effect of mobility but is in fact not. LÄS MER