The aim of this study was to analyze the assessment of the primary school, from the teacher?s perspective. There has been an ongoing discussion regarding assessment and about the purposes of assessment for a long time. But there is a paucity of research on what teachers believe about. This study examined primary teachers? beliefs on major purposes of assessment.Assessment is the process of gathering and interpreting information about students? learning.

Uppsatsens titel: Penningmängd och huspriser - Finns det något samband?Ämne: Företagsekonomi, Kandidatuppsats, 15 hpInlämningsdatum: 2009 ? 05 ? 29Författare: Gunnar Levin, Viktor SundlingHandledare: Sven-Ola CarlssonNyckelord: Penningmängd, Huspriser, Kointegration, M3, Fastigheter, FASTPI, KvantitetsteorinSyfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att genom statistiska tester beskriva sambandet mellan penningmängdens utveckling och småhusfastigheters prisutveckling. Vi vill även försöka förklara ett eventuellt samband med kvantitetsteorin.Tillvägagångssätt: I denna uppsats har vi genom att fastställa ett kointegrationssamband mellan tidsserievariabler kunnat genomföra en regressionsanalys mellan penningmängdsutvecklingen och prisutvecklingen för småhus avsedda för permanent boende.Slutsatser: Vi har funnit ett långsiktigt samband mellan utvecklingen i penningmängden uttryckt som M3 och prisutvecklingen för småhus avsedda för permanent boende. Sambandet mellan M3 och fastighetsprisindex för småhus kan förklaras med kvantitetsteorin..

Titel: Beslutsprocesser under företagsetableringen - En studie av tre tjänsteföretag. Författare: Susanne Augustsson och Nicklas Petersson Handledare: Henrick Gyllberg och Björn Ljunggren Institution: Managementhögskolan, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola. Kurs: Kandidatarbete i Företagsekonomi, 15 poäng. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att studera beslutsprocesser under företagsetableringen i tjänsteföretag. Metod: Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ ansats för att nå vårt syfte, där vi har samlat in primärdata genom intervjuer med grundarna för varje företag.

AbstractIn the secondary-school program for hotel and restaurant complete courses or parts of courses are placed in workplaces so called workplace education (APU), this means that the content in the course plan must be discussed and be divided in a proper way between the school and the workplace, so that the students is gaining all the parts that is prescribed in the goals for the course.Interviews with tutors and teachers have been performed, with the purpose of investigating how the collaboration between the school and the workplaces should look like so that the APU fulfills the content and quality that are prescribed in the specifications of the education. The study shows that a better structure for collaboration between the school and the workplaces is needed. Lack of time and financial resources are the factors that according to the study reduces the possibility?s to (among other things) perform education of tutors, and for the teachers to plan and follow-up the APU-period..

AbstractThis essay is based on a qualitative and quantitative study. We have compared history textbooks on an upper secondary level and how the books handle the Soviet Union. This study is done in Växjö as a region. Furthermore we also made interviews with upper secondary teachers and forms with upper secondary students. Our study of the textbooks has been ranges within the period from 1917 until 2009: we choose the year 1917 because the Soviet revolution started at the former date.

Vårt syfte var att undersöka några lärares tankar om hur det är att tillmötesgå elevers behov i en context präglad av olika kunskapsnivåer. Vi lyssnade genom semi-structurerade intervjuer på erfarna lärare och analyserade deras olika sätt att närma sig klassrum innehållandes olika kunskapsnivåer. Vi intervjuade tre engelsk lärare från ett högstadium och fyra lärare från en gymnasie skola. Våra iakttagelser visar att varierad undervisning är det bästa sättet att möta alla elevers behov och att det är nödvändigt att ha extra material till både avancerade elever och svagare elever. Våra intervjuer framhävde också vikten av kontinuerlig bedömning och behovet att individualisera så mycket som möjligt .

The aim of this study is to investigate how mathematics teachers use formative assessment to make the course objectives clear to the student. This is part of a wider aim in Sweden to find ways for improving mathematics teaching. Qualitative semi-structrured interviews and observations were used for collecting data. Different approaches to integrate formative assessment in their classrooms is discussed: questioning, discussions in whole-class, group work and assessment and feedback. The analysis of the results indicated that the teachers thought differently about how to integrate the course objectives in their planning.

The purpose of the following study is to examine whether or not differences can be found between a group of aspiring police students (N=59) and a student group (N=20). Comparisons were made between the following variables: general illhealth, subjective experienced stress, trait anxiety and the three coping strategies, which are emotion focused coping, problem focused coping and seeking social support. In addition the results were compared with former research on the general illhealth and trait anxiety of the police students with that of a group police officers with several years of experience (N=69).The result of this showed that the police students had a significantly better level of general than the studentgroup. Several positive relations between the variables were found, among others between illhealth and trait anxiety, subjective experienced stress and trait anxiety and also between different types of coping strategies and subjective experienced stress..

This thesis is a case study which describes the automation of a university library in Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of the case study is, firstly; to find out which actors and factors have started and influenced the automation and the implementation of ICT at Makerere University Library in Kampala, Uganda. Secondly; it also discusses if the automation has changed the librarys condition. The empirical material consists of fifteen interviews with librarians and students. The empirical material itself has functioned as a base when discerning the analytical themes.

This thesis is about how ideology affects the way leadership literature measures good and bad leadership qualities. The paper argues that ideological influences in leadership literature, from a teacher perspective, complicate the understanding of leadership in its practice and theory. The methodological tool used in this thesis is an idea- and ideology analysis approach applied on leadership literature that is used in teacher education. A theoretical discussion about the definition of leadership and its possible ideological connotations sets a frame for measuring ideological influences in the texts. The analysis from the textbooks showed clear signs of ideological influences when talking about leadership.

There are very few studies that have taken the matter of teacher?s leadership in disciplinary actions into research. That is why the purpose of this essay has been to investigate the relationship of how students think their teachers appear in questions of discipline. The study has been narrowed down to gather and analyze the experiences that students have about teachers, and how teachers uphold and set themselves to ground rules in the classroom. The study has shown how the students interpret teacher?s act of following up consequences of classroom rules.

Finnish student have for several years proved to be successful in reading in international studies. This interview based study aims to describe how teachers in Finnish schools for Swedish speaking children are relating to reading and reading education during the first two years of schooling. The result shows that reading, reading training and reading comprehension are natural elements in all teaching during the first two years in school and that teaching is based on students? ability and interest. The teachers claim that they provide the students with varying opportunities to practice different kinds of reading.

Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka marknaden för djupfrysta färdigrätter. Vi vill få fram en konsumentprofil, dvs. undersöka vilka egenskaper som utmärker en typisk färdigrättskonsument, samt vilka attribut de värdesätter. Vi vill genom vår undersökning utreda om det finns tydliga segment, samt om konsumenterna har något behov som inte är tillfredsställt. Metod: För att få fram informationen till en konsumentprofil, bestämde vi oss för att genomföra en kvalitativ och en kvantitativ undersök-ning.

Engineers are a group of individuals who are attractive when companies are in need for competence in technology. Today it is a shortage of these competences in the labor market. Because of this there has grown a competition among companies when they strive to recruit the best engineers. Therefore companies spend more resources on marketing themselves as an attractive employer. This study was set out to find what engineers think is an attractive employer through a demographic perspective.

AbstraktTitel: Fyra förskollärares arbete med pedagogiskt dramaFörfattare: Elin Pierrou och Jessica StåhlTyp av arbete: Examensarbete 10 p (B-nivå)Handledare: Tina Waldén-HillströmExaminator: Maud SöderlundInstitution: Pedagogik, didaktik och psykologiProgram: Lärarprogrammet, Högskolan i GävleDatum: december 2007Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka hur fyra förskollärare arbetar med pedagogiskt drama i förskoleverksamheten och vad drama betyder för dem. I studien framkommer även om det finns tid och utrymme för detta ämne. Metoden genomfördes med ostrukturerade intervjuer där respondenternas erfarenheter inom ämnet framgår. Resultatet visade att pedagogiskt drama kan betyda många olika saker beroende på vem du frågar och vad personen har för erfarenheter. Det visade sig även att pedagogiskt drama var ett viktigt inslag i verksamheten enligt respondenterna och de önskade att det finns mer tid..