I takt med lärarbristen har det samtidigt väckts ett intresse för nya typer av läraravlastande yrkeskategorier i svenska grundskolan. Det finns en bred variation på benämningar och uppgifter för denna yrkesgrupp och Heltidsmentorer är en av de tjänster som ingår i denna nya yrkeskategori. En fråga som rimligtvis kan vara svår att ignorera är vad dessa nya tjänster kan innebära för lärare och elever. Syftet med föreliggande uppsats är därför att studera om det har någon effekt och i så fall vilken effekt det har att anställa heltidsmentorer för studieresultatet för elever i årskurs 9 i den svenska kommunala grundskolan. Vidare är också syftet att undersöka om socioekonomisk bakgrund kan ha ett samband med vilken typ av tjänst skolor väljer att anställa. Studien är baserad på variansanalys av registerdata om 99 skolors resultatstatistik. Några av studiens mest intressanta fynd är att det rent generellt inte verkar spela någon roll för studieresultatet vilken typ av avlastande tjänst en skola väljer att anställa. Dessutom verkar det som att ju högre socioekonomisk bakgrund eleverna har på en skola, desto större chans är det att skolan väljer bort läraravlastande tjänster. / At the same time as, and in line with the shortage of teachers, an interest has been aroused in new types of teacher-relieving professional categories in Swedish compulsory schools. There is a wide variety of professional categories and tasks for this role and Full-time mentors are one of the positions included in this new professional category. One question that can reasonably be difficult to ignore is what these new services might mean for teachers and students? The purpose of this thesis is therefore to study whether it has any effect and, if so, what effect it has to hire full-time mentors for the study results for students in year 9 in the Swedish municipal compulsory school. Furthermore, the aim is also to investigate whether socio-economic background may have a connection with the type of position schools choose to employ. The study is based on analysis of variance of register data from 99 Swedish schools. Some of the study's most interesting findings are that, in general, it does not seem to matter what type of relief service a school chooses to hire for students' academic performance. In addition, it seems that the higher the socioeconomic background of students at a school, the greater the chance that the school will opt out of teacher relieving positions.

<p>Open and flexible learning can offer the prospective student a smorgasbord of possible learning activities. This study will investigate if this form of education really suits all students through an examination of relevant factors such as learning process expectations, attendance motives, study approaches (Biggs SPQ), communication initiative, expectation-based study and, finally, background variables such as socioeconomic status. Are there any variables that correlate positive to academic performance? If so, what are these variables and which are most important? This case study is an analysis of academic success involving 174 students in a business administration course in higher education.</p><p>Open and flexible learning is an approach in which distance education and campus mode converge. The emphasis shift is to the individual student’s needs and preferences, which enables students to choose there own learning paths and thus stimulates active and independent learning. The goal is to enable more effective management of learning by the learner. Open and flexible learning is often mentioned as a way to access higher education for non-traditional students. There is a large body of research, with a wide variety of theoretical frameworks and models, that try to explain, describe or predict students’ success. The research points to the fact that there is no one simple explanation or solution to help students towards degree completion or fulfilment of their goals.</p><p>A statistical correlation analysis is conducted in this study and a binary logistic regression is used to construct three models of the most important variables. The first model is based on data about the students that is known before a course starts. The second model includes variables that could be collected at the course start. The third model includes variables that could be collected when the students have attended the course. The result shows that the most important variable for academic success in the course is an achievement-oriented approach to learning. The second most important variable is expectation of the learning process as an individual activity. Other variables such as socioeconomic status and other background variables have less impact. The possibility to predict the academic success is 81 % and the third model explains 46-64 % of the variance of the academic outcome. The conclusion in this study is that the non-traditional students in the Business Administration course receives equal to, if not better results as the other students.</p>

Open and flexible learning can offer the prospective student a smorgasbord of possible learning activities. This study will investigate if this form of education really suits all students through an examination of relevant factors such as learning process expectations, attendance motives, study approaches (Biggs SPQ), communication initiative, expectation-based study and, finally, background variables such as socioeconomic status. Are there any variables that correlate positive to academic performance? If so, what are these variables and which are most important? This case study is an analysis of academic success involving 174 students in a business administration course in higher education. Open and flexible learning is an approach in which distance education and campus mode converge. The emphasis shift is to the individual student’s needs and preferences, which enables students to choose there own learning paths and thus stimulates active and independent learning. The goal is to enable more effective management of learning by the learner. Open and flexible learning is often mentioned as a way to access higher education for non-traditional students. There is a large body of research, with a wide variety of theoretical frameworks and models, that try to explain, describe or predict students’ success. The research points to the fact that there is no one simple explanation or solution to help students towards degree completion or fulfilment of their goals. A statistical correlation analysis is conducted in this study and a binary logistic regression is used to construct three models of the most important variables. The first model is based on data about the students that is known before a course starts. The second model includes variables that could be collected at the course start. The third model includes variables that could be collected when the students have attended the course. The result shows that the most important variable for academic success in the course is an achievement-oriented approach to learning. The second most important variable is expectation of the learning process as an individual activity. Other variables such as socioeconomic status and other background variables have less impact. The possibility to predict the academic success is 81 % and the third model explains 46-64 % of the variance of the academic outcome. The conclusion in this study is that the non-traditional students in the Business Administration course receives equal to, if not better results as the other students.

This bachelor thesis examines factors affecting the academic performance in Swedish schools. Specifically, the average qualification point among ninth grade students in schools in Stockholm municipality during the academic year 2021-2022 are studied. Multiple linear regression is used to identify individual, social, and school specific factors which have a significant impact on the average qualification point in schools. The purpose is to identify factors affecting the academic performance, and by that contribute to the knowledge base constituting the foundation for the work to improve the academic performance and provide equal opportunities for all students. The Swedish grading system, previous research on factors affecting students' performance, and the Swedish school in a societal perspective are also discussed. The findings indicate that the background of the students, the parents' level of education, and the number of students per teacher are good predictors for academic performance. / Denna kandidatuppsats undersöker faktorer som påverkar studieresultatet i svenska skolor. Specifikt studeras det genomsnittliga betyget bland elever i årskurs nio i Stockholms kommuns skolor under läsåret 2021-2022. Multipel linjär regression används för att identifiera individfaktorer, sociala faktorer och skolspecifika faktorer som har en signifikant inverkan på skolors genomsnittliga betyg. Syftet är att identifiera faktorer som påverkar studieresultatet och därmed bidra till kunskapsbasen som utgör grunden för arbetet med att förbättra studieresultat och tillhandahålla lika möjligheter för alla elever. Det svenska betygssystemet, tidigare forskning kring faktorer som påverkar elevers studieprestation samt den svenska skolan i ett samhälleligt perspektiv diskuteras också. Resultatet tyder på att elevernas bakgrund, föräldrarnas utbildningsnivå och antalet elever per lärare är bra prediktorer för akademisk prestation.