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Samuelstuen

Short Vita
Marit Sæther Samuelstuen

Current position Post doctoral research fellow

Address work: Department of Education,

Norwegian University of Science and Technology,

Zip code, City 7491 Trondheim

Address home: Hans Osnesv. 6

Zip code, City: 7030 Trondheim

Country: Norway

Phone home/work: + 47 72 56 56 45 / + 47 73 59 76 59

E-mail:

Education

·  Dr.polit. (PhD), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Educational Psychology), 2005.

·  Cand.polit., NTNU (Educational Psychology), 1996.

National and International PhD Courses

·  Multivariate Data Analysis: A Model Testing Approach, (Research methods) NTNU, aug.-92

·  Operationalizing and analyzing constructs in educational research, (Research methods/psychometric theory) Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo, spring -99

·  Research and society (Scientific theory) NTNU, fall-99

·  Self-concept, motivation and self-regulated learning, NTNU, (educational psychology) fall –04

·  Research mediation, Department of Education, NTNU, spring -00

·  Multivariate Analyses, (Statistics) New York University, spring -00

·  Psychometric Theory, New York University, - spring -00

·  General linear model, (statistics) City University of New York, fall –00

·  Path analysis, Factor analysis, and Structural equation models, (statistics/psychometric theory) City University of New York, spring –01

·  Self-regulation of Academic Learning and Motivation, City University of New York, (Educational Psychology) spring –01

·  Mental Health Statistical Workshops (weekly), New York University, 2000/2001

Academic Positions

·  Research Fellow (Post doctor), NTNU, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2006 – present) (project: Learning in a Knowledge Society: Constructing Meaning from Multiple Information Sources (CMMIS). Head of the project: Prof Ivar Bråten, PFI, UIO.

·  Visiting Scholar at the University of Gothenburg, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2007 – 2008). Ref: Prof Jan-Eric Gustafsson.

·  Associate Professor at Department of Education, NTNU (teaching statistics, research methods, reading comprehension) (2005)

·  Assistant Professor at Department of Education, NTNU (teaching statistics, research methods, and theory on text comprehension, reading skills and self-regulated learning) (1996 – 2005)

·  Research Fellow, NTNU, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (1999 – 2005) (project: Self-regulated learning and text comprehension in junior high school students)

·  Visiting Scholar at Department of Psychology, New York University, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and NYU’s Mental Health Statistics Training Program (2000 – 2001). Ref: Prof Patrick Shrout.

·  Research Assistant at Department of Education, NTNU on the projects Task analysis and learning strategies (1990-1995), and Task analysis and text comprehension (1996 – 1997). Head of the projects: Prof. Nils Sovik, Dep of Education, NTNU

Administrative Practice

·  Taken part in the planning and organizing of the project: Learning in a Knowledge Society: Constructing Meaning from Multiple Information Sources (CMMIS), funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2006 – present)

·  Head of the project; Self-regulated learning and text comprehension in junior high school students funded by the Norwegian Research Council (1999 – 2005). Planned, organized and carried out the empirical studies marked with an upper-case letter b in the attached list of publications.

·  Committee member of the faculty board, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2002 – 2005)

·  Committee member of the appointing authority board, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2004 – 2005)

·  Taken part in the planning and organizing of the Norwegian network for reading and writing disabilities’ conference, 2001 [In Norwegian: Norgesnettet for lese- og skrivevansker], Center for reading research, University of Stavanger, Norway.

·  Responsible for the courses in statistics and SPSS at the master’s degree and the bachelor’s degree programs, Department of Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (1997 – 1999). Varying administrative practise during the years as assistant and associate professor (1997 – 2005).

·  Varying administrative practise working as a teacher in elementary school (1986 – 1990)

·  Leader for the “FAU” at “Hoeggen ungdomsskole” (2002/2003)

Professional Affiliations

European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Scientific Conference Participation

·  EARLI biennal conference 1999, Göteborg, Sweden

·  EARLI biennal conference, 2001, Freiburg, Switzerland

·  EARLI SIG biennal conference, 2004, Valencia, Spain

·  EARLI biennal conference, 2005, Cyprus, Greek

·  AERA, annual meeting, 2006, San Francisco, US

·  EARLI SIG biennal conference, 2006, Nottingham, UK

·  EARLI biennal conference, 2008, Budapest, Hungary

Current Research Projects

Learning in a Knowledge Society: Constructing Meaning from Multiple Information Sources (CMMIS) Funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Project Director: Prof Ivar Bråten (2006-2009).

Programmatic Research on the Understanding of Texts (PRUT) Head of the project: Ivar Bråten, PFI, UIO (2005 – present)

Self-Regulated Learning and Text Comprehension (SRLTC) Head of the project: Ivar Bråten, PFI, UIO (2000 – present)

Self-Regulated Learning and Text Comprehension in Junior High School Students. Funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Head of the project: Marit S. Samuelstuen (1999 – present).