The FUS Project – Research – Department of Teacher Education
Functional Writing in Primary School – The FUS Project
The project “Functional Writing in Primary School” (FUS) aims to increase the quality of the teaching and learning of writing in the first years of schooling. The primary aim of the project is to investigate what effects an early start with functional writing might have on students’ ability to use writing as a tool for learning and communication within school subjects. Such an approach will be novel as it already from school year 1 combines writing for a variety of purposes in meaningful ways with learning of alphabetic codes. The main part of the FUS project will be organized as an experimental intervention project revolving around teachers’ professional learning and students’ classroom actions in writing instruction in school years 1 and 2. The expected outcomes of the project are evidence-based knowledge of effective writing instruction for young learners and descriptors of expected trajectories of writing development.
Multidisciplinary and international
The FUS project will be multidisciplinary. The research group will consist of researchers from the fields of applied linguistics, mother-tongue education, psychometrics, writing and literacy research, corpus linguistics, and the economics and management of education. Researchers from several disciplines will be able to shed light on the overarching research aim through different lenses, thus offering varied and complementary answers to what effects the project will have.
The FUS project will have international aspects. The project will include key researchers in Denmark and Sweden. These researchers will contribute in Stages 1 and 2 of the FUS project. They will participate in developing resources for instruction and assessment and will collect data in Denmark and Sweden. The international collaboration will provide a broad range of expertise and secure the possibility of comparing and contrasting results across different educational contexts. This will in turn provide robust knowledge about similarities and differences in the effectiveness of the resources. Such findings will be of great international interest and will strengthen the possibility to evaluate the external validity of the project.
Timeline
Stage 1
- Recruitment of schools. Randomized allocation to arms
- Sustainability baseline 3rd graders in all schools
Stage 2: Intervention
- Baseline test: 1st graders in all schools
- Start of intervention
Stage 3
Stage 4
Members of research group
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Arne Johannes Aasen Director
+47-73558905 +47-97752967 arne.j.aasen@ntnu.no The Norwegian Centre for Writing Education and Research (The Writing Centre) -
Maria Hole-Forsmo University College Teacher
+47-73412103 +47-92811166 maria.hole-forsmo@ntnu.no The Norwegian Centre for Writing Education and Research (The Writing Centre) -
Mari-Ann Igland Affiliated
+47-73412605 +47-48272117 mari.a.igland@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education -
Marita Byberg Johansen Assistant Professor
+47-45473293 marita.b.johansen@ntnu.no The Norwegian Centre for Writing Education and Research (The Writing Centre) -
Lennart Jølle Associate Professor in Norwegian
+47-73559077 +47-95945625 lennart.jolle@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education -
Anne Holten Kvistad Assistant Professor
+47-73412629 anne.h.kvistad@ntnu.no The Norwegian Centre for Writing Education and Research (The Writing Centre) -
Synnøve Matre Professor in L1, Norwegian language and literature
+47-73559894 +47-41478786 synnove.matre@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education -
Iris Hansson Myran Assistant Professor
+47-73559777 iris.h.myran@ntnu.no The Norwegian Centre for Writing Education and Research (The Writing Centre) -
Mari Nygård Deputy head of education. Associate professor in Norwegian.
+47-73412782 +47-91858432 mari.nygard@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education -
Marit Olave Riis-Johansen Associate Professor
+47-73598330 +47-90635509 marit.riis-johansen@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education -
Randi Solheim Professor
+47-73558904 +47-47863231 randi.solheim@ntnu.no Department of Teacher Education -
Kathrine Vik Tollaksen Assistant Professor
+47-90579577 kathrine.v.tollaksen@ntnu.no The Norwegian Centre for Writing Education and Research (The Writing Centre)
External members
- Professor Kjell Lars Berge, University of Oslo
- Associate Professor Anne Kathrine Hundal, Nord University
- Assistant Professor Daroon Yassin, Örebro University
Media production
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Johan Dragvoll Senior Executive Officer, promoter
+47-91174183 johan.dragvoll@ntnu.no The Norwegian Centre for Writing Education and Research (The Writing Centre) -
Carl Gunnar Eltervaag Videographer
+47-93213625 carl.g.eltervaag@ntnu.no The Norwegian Centre for Writing Education and Research (The Writing Centre)