Syftet med denna studie är att få inblick på hur lärare i årskurs 1–3 ser på användandet av digitala verktyg för att främja elevers lärande inom programmering i matematikundervisningen. Studien har genomförts med semistrukturerade intervjuer av kvalitativ karaktär. Deltagande lärare som har medverkat kommer från olika skolor i mellersta Sverige och är utbildade inom matematikämnet i årskurs 1–3. Den insamlade data har analyserats genom både SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) -  modellen som handlar om hur lärarna använder sig av digitala verktyg i undervisningen och Finger och Houguets konceptuella ramverk för utmaningar vid införande av teknologi i undervisning. Resultatet av denna studie visar att de berörda lärarna tycker att digitala verktyg är en viktig komponent till programmering och att de kan underlätta i programmeringsundervisningen på grund av de möjligheter som det digitala kan erbjuda. / The purpose of this study is to gain insight into how teachers throughout grades 1 – 3 view the use of digital tools to encourage student learning about programming within the subject of mathematics in addition to possibilities and challenges. The study has been accomplished using semi-structured interviews of a qualitative nature. The contributing teachers derive from multiple schools throughout central Sweden and are trained in mathematics through grades 1–3. The collected data has been analyzed using both the SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition)- a model which deals with how teachers utilize digital tools to educate, and Vinnervik's translated framework for challenges when implementing technology education. The results show that affected teachers believe that using digital tools is an essential factor when learning programming due to the possibilities they provide.

The aim of the present study was to find out what qualities teachers look for in apps for reading development, what qualities researchers think an app should possess, and whether the apps that teachers use have these qualities. To achieve this purpose, teachers in grades 1–3 were asked to complete a questionnaire and three educational apps were analysed with the aid of questions based on Sjödén’s (2015) dissertation “What makes good educational software?” The questions were used to study the contexts representation, interaction and social positioning. The results of the study showed that the three most desirable qualities in an educational app are that it should motivate pupils, that it should be linked to the learning goals, and that it should give pupils an opportunity to work independently. The analysis showed that the three most frequently used apps had the qualities that the teachers considered most significant and also the qualities that research has found essential in an educational app. The apps mostly elicited positive responses to the analysis questions, but there were defects in the concretizing potential of the apps, and none of them enabled social interaction through the assumption of character roles. The conclusions show that, despite the qualities of the apps, the teacher is indispensable in the teaching of reading with apps, and to choose a good educational app teachers should use the analysis in the study as a foundation but also integrate their own experience of teaching.

Syftet med denna undersökning är att synliggöra vilka former av arbets- och bedömningsmetoder som lärare väljer att använda sig av för att bedöma elevernas kunskaper och genom detta studera hur dessa kan betraktas som likvärdiga i ämnet samhällskunskap, årskurs 1-3. Syftet är även att synliggöra hur lärare som undervisar i ämnet, årskurs 1-3 uppfattar ramfaktorer, och ställa detta mot tidigare forskning huruvida faktorer kan påverka lärares förutsättningar att bedöma eleverna likvärdigt. I en enkätundersökning har lärare som undervisar i samhällskunskap, årskurs 1-3, svarat på frågor om bedömningsmetoder och vilka ramfaktorer de anser påverkar förutsättningar för bedömning. Lärare i undersökningen använder framförallt muntliga och skriftliga bedömningsmetoder, vilket indikerar på hög validitet och reliabilitet. Ramfaktorer som lärarna anser ha störst påverkan på deras möjlighet till att genomföra bedömningar är de pedagogiska- samt de administrativa ramarna. En likvärdig bedömning är svår att uppnå på grund av avsaknad av bedömningsstöd för årskurs 1-3. Lärarnas svar i undersökningen, gällande ursprungskälla av bedömningsmaterial samt användandet av bedömningsmatriser skiljer sig åt, vilket kan peka på skillnader av lärarnas tolkningar av styrdokumenten. / The purpose of this study is to highlight the forms of work- and assessment methods, that teachers choose to use to assess pupil’s knowledge and thereby study how these can be considered equivalent in the subject of social studies, grades 1-3. The purpose is also to make visible how teachers who teach the subject perceive framework factors, and set this against previous research on which factors affect teachers' ability to assess students equally. In a survey, teachers who teach in the grades 1-3 answered questions about assessment methods and which framework factors they consider to affect the conditions for assessment. The teachers mainly used oral- and written assessment methods, which indicates high validity and reliability. Framework factors that teachers consider to have the greatest impact on their ability to assess pupil’s are the pedagogical- and administrative frameworks. Equivalent assessment is difficult to achieve due to the lack of assessment support for grades 1-3. The teachers answers in the survey, that their source of assessment material and the use of assessment matrix differ, which may indicate differences in the teachers' interpretations of the governing documents.

The aim of the study is to investigate how teachers in grades 1­­­­­­­­­­­–3 use reading aloud to develop the pupils’ reading comprehension and how they reflect on the method. The study is based on interviews with four teachers, all of them working in these grades. The interviews have been interpreted hermeneutically and the statements compiled in accordance with the aim and research questions. The results indicate that all the teachers are aware that reading aloud can be used as a resource to develop pupils’ reading comprehension. The results can be interpreted to show that the teachers were accustomed to asking questions about the text that had been read but were uncertain about how to develop the pupils’ reading comprehension otherwise. One reason for the teachers’ uncertainty may be that they do not have the necessary training. The result shows that the reading aloud sessions in the schools look different. What they all have in common, however, is that all the teachers can put the time for reading aloud to better use in order to develop the pupils’ reading comprehension.