This study aims to highlight the activities and needs of Students in order to explain how mobile services can provide support and facilitate Students on a daily basis. The empirical data is based on discussions with a focus group combined with already existing research concerning the areas of mobile service development, contextual-awareness and ubiquitous computing. The results from the focus group show that Students have a need for mobile services to help and support them in their ordinary tasks and activities. In the discussion of this report we bring up aspects of development and what to think of when dealing with Students..

This master's thesis examines information literacy and Students in secondary education. The study is framed within a sociocultural perspective of learning and the method used is questionnaires. The major question posed is how and where Students seek information. Other questions are if the Students critically evaluate and analyse in­formation sources and if teachers and school librarians cooperate with each other in order to help the Students with their assignments.The findings indicate that most Students regard information seeking as fact-finding or finding the right an­swers to the question. Only one third of Students experienced information seeking as seeking and using informa­tion for understanding a topic.

The case method is a relatively new pedagogical method in Sweden that is based on Students exercising their skills in the analysis of complex situations and problems that are based in reality and that help Students to see a broader perspective and context.The purpose of this study has been to investigate, through interviews with Students and teachers, the advantages and disadvantages of the case method in teaching geography.The results of the study show that both teachers and Students share almost the same opinion. The conclusion is that the case method is a didactic method that is well suited for teaching geography, as it is based on reality and develops the Students? ability to analyze, argue and find solutions in several areas within the subject of geography. If a student is strong in these skill areas they can really benefit from the application of the case method in the teaching of geography, but for Students who are weaker in these skills, the case method can be a disadvantage.

Banks are an important institution for the economy of a society. During the later years the world of banking has changed. Several new actors have entered the market and taken over traditional bankservices as well as new ones. The way of conducting banking has changed with the event of new technology. One of the banks customer segments, the Students have also been under a change. With a changed market companies have to adapt to the new rules of the game.

This is a qualitative study whit purpose of showing how teachers work whit Students in need of special support in school. The purpose has been to study what teachers mean whit special aid, and if the support is individually adapted for each Students needs. I have trougt interviews, observations and examinations of diverse documents found paradoxes where teachers and the scool leaders claim that they work whit the integration of all the Students at school, while the teality shows a different picture. I have found a clear segregation of Students, where they have on repeated occasions had to leave the classroom to receive tuition. The school stuff has a wide iiew of wich Students are included in the term "Students in need of special tuition".

The main purpose of this master thesis is to examine how high school Students think when they independently are evaluating information for a school assignment. We examine what types of sources they use, and what their reasons are. Besides that we also examine what sorts of criteria they use when evaluating if a source is usable, and if there are any other factors that can have an influence for their choice of material. We have done a qualitative study with 23 Students, where the Students wrote down their answers in a questionnaire containing wide open questions. We have created our own tool for analysing the material by extracting the most general things in our chapter of earlier research, concerning the three questions which our study is based on.

The Individual Program (within the continuation school) in Sweden is the third largest. Its purpose is that the Students, who for some reason haven?t been able to be admitted to a National Program, shall get the chance to improve their possibilities to attend one. The difficulties the Students, who are admitted to the Individual Program are carriers of, have a wide range. The purpose of the Individual Program is that no one should be excluded from any continuation school.

AbstractWorking with Students who have ADHD are today common in Swedish schools. Approximately 2-3 Students per class have been diagnosed with ADHD and require greater demands on their teachers. The pupils have to be included and get the opportunities to develop in the way that suits the Students best. The pupils themselves should not have to adapt to the school, it is the school that has to adapt to the pupils. The purpose of this paper is to examine how PE teachers work with Students who have ADHD as they need to have adults around them that have insights on their special needs.

This study describes how verbal abuse is used in schools and how it affects Students. As a  result of the study is a questionnaire which was distributed to 153 Students at two schools in a small town in southern Sweden. Students who participated in the study were in grades 3-6 and were between 9 and 13 years old. I asked Students 13 questions, which dealt with verbal abuse, some of them were check questions and some were issues that required a longer response.The results of the survey show that 108 Students of 153 have ever felt verbally abused at school, slightly more girls than boys. Usually they say they have been verbally abused by their own sex and then with words like boys are more frequently offended by words of a sexual nature, whereas girls more often are offended by words that violate their appearance.The Students who feel aggrieved are shown to be those Students who violate others.

AbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate the reason why Students contact adults if they are involved in any kind of bullying, what support they had received and wished for, as well as to investigate why student don?t contact adults. About of 150 Students, 50 girls and 56 boys (70%) had experienced bullying of different kinds; some had more than one kind of experience. The Students expressed that they had contacted adults when they ?felt unwell? and to ?stop bullying?.

This paper investigates how Swedish upper secondary school Students relate to the financial support available from the Swedish state of education. It also looks at the attitudes of such Students to the new CSN[1]truancy rules as they apply to school politics.Is there a difference in Students? attitude to these truancy rules and does that difference depend on the Students? socio-economic standard, whether they come from a wealthy background or a marginalised society or whether they are ethnic Swedish? Does this in any way affect the attitudes of the Students?This financial support is only paid to those Students who do not skip school. If they lose their right to this contribution because of truancy, their parents will also forfeit the right to the financial subsidies to which they may be entitled. Naturally, this may affect Students in different ways, depending on what kind of financial situation their family is in.Do some Students go to school out of their own financial interest or out of that of their parents? Through focus-group interviews, Students have expressed their opinions, told about their experiences and stated their attitudes with regards to these matters.

The aim of this master thesis was to examine the European Commission's information resources from a user perspective in order to clarify the needs and circumstances of the search of EU-information among Students at Örebro University. 41 Students participated in a survey, and four of them was interviewed. On the basis of Pendelton- and Chatmans theories of information behaviour in small worlds, it were assumed that the Students' education and citizenship in the European Union affected their needs and the search of EU information.The study showed that the Students needs for EU-related information has increased, with the current education, but also been linked to earlier educations. The Students Citizens need were mainly associated with elections such as the EMU-election, but also in some cases to a need of the general knowledge.A review of the European Commission's information resources were made with an emphasis on European Documentation Centre, EDC. The survey showed that most Students used the EDC and the EU-databases that was made available by the European Commission through the EDC and the university library but were not aware that they used EDC.The survey also showed that Students made use of familiar sources and resources when they searched the EU-information, such as the library's regular database list, the library catalogue and search engine on the internet are not requested of other resources.

The aim of this study is to examine how the adult Students in the Adult Education Initiative called Kunskapslyftet, experience their use of the Main Public Library in Linköping and how the librarians experience the change in their working situation after Adult Education Initiative has started in July 1997. Methods used in the survey are interviews with librarians and Students in the Adult Education Initiative. I have also distributed questionnaires to some of the adult Students and studied literature that describe Students use of libraries. The result shows that the Students generally are satisfied with the service they get from the librarians at the Main Public Library. It also shows that what the Students mostly asked for, are help to search information about a subject and to find literature in the library.

With many different elective courses to choose between, a lot of Students  experience anxiety over deciding which courses to study next semester. The  choice of a specific course can have a big impact on the Students future studies  and/or employment. Therefore the anxiety is justified. At the same time the  number of Students applying for a course often vary from year to year. This  creates issues for the responsible teachers because of the ever-changing  resource requirements.There are several different theories on decision making, addressing the  different time related states as well as the different habitual styles.

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the ISP (the Information Search Process) as defined by Carol Kuhlthau is applicable to Swedish University Students. Qualitative interviews were carried out with Students enrolled in their thesis course at the end of their university education. The selection is based on convenience sample of Students visiting the university library. The questions are mainly about how to find out the experiences of the Students when they look for documents at the beginning of their thesis work. Other relevant questions are about user-education, information literacy and what the Students' opinions are concerning a thesis as a part of their education.