...Tendai Charles Purpose This conceptual paper strengthens the basis on which lesson study and learning study justify claims about student learning without treating classroom data as proof. It reframes evidencing learning as a problem of proportionate warrant linking claims, the object of learning...

...Anders Nersäter Purpose This study explores how a Learning Study model can support collaboration within a Professional Learning Community and promote the development of history teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a qualitative case study design...

...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...

... learning could be understood with respect to its complexity by analysing what aspects are offered to discern. A learning study is a collaborative and iterative model for teachers to develop their knowledge of the relationship between the instruction design and the learning offered to students...

...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 article (for both commercial & non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms 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...

...Ingrid Maria Carlgren Learning study can be described as a particularistic, theory-building research approach concerning the knowing of specific learning objects as well as how they can be taught and learnt. The knowledge that is generated in learning study is theoretical and describes aspects...

... question is the following: Can a specific form of teachers’ research produce practice-based knowledge relevant beyond the borders of the local school context? This question is addressed through empirical examples from previously published papers on learning studies in natural sciences, mathematics...

...Marie Björk A case study is conducted. Data consist of field notes, logbooks, manuscripts and conference papers from two learning studies conducted in grade 4 by three teachers and one researcher, and notes from meetings in a subject-teacher group at the school. The analysis focuses on how...

...Yuen Sze Michelle Tan; Joshua Johnstone Amiel; Kwesi Yaro The benefits of teachers using theoretical knowledge to underpin their pedagogies are being acknowledged increasingly in learning study (LS) literature. This praxis serves to bridge the theory-practice gap, and to promote teacher...