...Noor Amal Azirah Azlan; Adeline Yuen Sze Goh Purpose The study aims to identify a hierarchy of conceptions of competence in baking that can serve as a foundation for applying learning study and improving teachers' professional development in teaching pastry and bakery modules. The study was guided...

...Ahoo Sh Fard; Frank Dige Bach; Åke Ingerman; Ulf Ryberg Purpose The study reports a learning study on subtraction with negative numbers based on Variation Theory (VT), with special focus on exploring the conditions for using diagnostic classification models (DCMs) for assessment. DCMs offer...

...Travis T. Fuchs; Yuen Sze Michelle Tan Purpose This study explores how secondary science teachers in British Columbia engaged with the Three Visions of Scientific Literacy Heuristic (3-VSL) within a Learning Study (LearnS) to support students’ responsible engagement with controversial societal...

...Eric C.K. Cheng Purpose This study aims to explore the roles of Koshi within the Learning Study framework, a Hong Kong adaptation of Lesson Study guided by variation theory. It examines Koshi’s pathways to becoming mentors, facilitators and critical friends, their day-to-day responsibilities...

... with prominent challenges. Design/methodology/approach In total 68 Swedish preschoolers participated. They were randomly assigned to one of the intervention/control groups: 23 mixed design, 24 variation theory design and 21 controls. Data from 59 pupils were analyzed. A learning study with three lesson...

...Pernilla Mårtensson; Ulla Runesson Kempe; Henrik Hansson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore whether and how principles from variation theory can contribute to the planning of teaching and learning beyond learning study. Design/methodology/approach We study whether and how...

...Ming Fai Pang; Wing Wah Ki Purpose The aim of this study is to illuminate the perceptions of the essential factors for sustaining Learning Study of the curriculum leaders who have led Learning Study in schools over a sustained period. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted a case study...

... be discerned in a learning situation and create learning opportunities regardless of whether or not it takes place within the framework of a learning study (Runesson, 2017). When it comes to learning studies, formulating a specific object of learning is a central aspect. The object of learning takes shape...

...Nina Kilbrink; Jan Axelsson; Stig-Börje Asplund Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how critical aspects can be defined in a learning study on welding without conducting any pre-tests. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the authors focus on empirical examples from...

...Yanping Fang; Hongyan Wang Purpose A first post-WALS attempt at a thematic analysis of the conference presentations since its first annual meeting in 2007, this paper aims to achieve two major purposes: first, to capture the trends of spread and diffusion of lesson and learning studies globally...

...Anna Lövström; Johan Malmqvist; Constanta Olteanu Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate achievement profiles in mathematics when integers are taught in a learning study in grade three (to children 8–9 years old) and to explore to what extent students with such profiles participate...

...Keith Wood Purpose The purpose of this article is to discern and discuss dimensions of variation opened by the articles in the issue 9(2) of the International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies (IJLLS). Design/methodology/approach The approach draws on the path of teachers...

... reports on the learning outcomes of implementing such a design. Design/methodology/approach Data were generated in the context of learning study research undertaken in collaboration with teachers within upper secondary school. The paper uses data from pre- and post-assignments and research lessons...

... of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Learning study Lesson study Variation theory English as a second language Second language learning Teachers perspective This study was carried out during a two-year Professional Development Course (CPD...

... is to contribute to the theoretical reflection on learning study as a research approach. The focus is on description and reflection on the methodology of learning study as paedeutic research. This research is for, not on, teachers, i.e. research into problems and challenges faced by teachers in their professional...

... published papers on learning studies in natural sciences, mathematics and language. This paper promotes the view that teachers in learning studies can create practical public knowledge relevant beyond their local context. The authors suggest that learning studies and variation theory can offer...

... that affect research questions in a practice-based research study, where learning study is used as a framework. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to understanding of the process where teachers and a researcher collaborate in transforming practical teaching problems into research questions...

... to conduct a learning study to develop the genre awareness of our students and foster their capability of reading informative texts. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how different arrangements, such as lesson structures and patterns of variation, enhance students’ genre awareness...

...Yuen Sze Michelle Tan; Joshua Johnstone Amiel; Kwesi Yaro The purpose of this paper is to describe two cycles of learning study (LS) involving eight elementary teachers in British Columbia, Canada. The study explored the teachers’ experiences of learning to plan and teach lessons as informed...

... is to identify changes in teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) as a result of their participation in two learning studies in mathematics. A group of four mathematics teachers and the researcher of this paper explored two objects of learning related to division with decimal numbers...