Rannveig Grøm Sæle

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Effective learning techniques, such as spaced retrieval practice, can enhance retention, comprehension, and transfer, but is often underutilized by students. One barrier could be the difficulty in converting regular study materials to practice material and optimally scheduling repetitions. We hypothesized that teacher-made digital flashcards, provi...

Introduction Education is important for socioeconomic, work and health status; thus, dropping out of secondary school is of major concern. In Norway, 1 out of 5 is dropping out from upper secondary education. Academic performance is a known predictor for dropout, but the role of mental and general health status is studied less. Methods By use of s...

Bakgrunn: Flyt er et livsmestringsprogram for elever på 10. trinn som har til hensikt å gjøre deltakere bedre rustet til å gjennomføre videregående skole. Programmet er et styrkebasert gruppetiltak for ungdom i risiko for å droppe ut fra videregående, men ungdom uten kjent risiko inkluderes også. For elever omfatter tiltaket totalt 80 timer med org...

Universities are facing many challenges as they are expected to prepare their students in the best possible way to contribute to sustainable societal- and industrial development. Students will become researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and role models, and should be able to contribute in the transition to a greener and smarter future. The task...

Education is important to society, yet many students do not complete the educations they start. In the present study of 426 students at a Norwegian university, we examined the predictive value of study-related variables with regard to student status one and five years after initial enrollment (stayers versus dropouts). The logistic regression analy...

Why do students leave universities? The current study addresses the problem of academic attrition from the perspective of students’ intentions. Specifically, we focus on the roles of academic self-efficacy and procrastination in exploring their relationships with attrition intentions. Based on existing research, we expected a negative relationship...

Inefficient study skills increase the probability that study work is perceived as difficult and aversive, with procrastination as a likely result. As a remedy, more effective study skills and habits may be encouraged. However, research indicates that good study skills and habits may not by themselves be sufficient to remedy problems, as this relati...

Background: Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic-interpersonal therapies (PIT) are two widely used and conceptually different outpatient treatments for eating disorders (EDs). To better understand how these treatments works, for whom, and under what circumstances, there is a need for knowledge about how outcomes are affected by diagn...

Bakgrunn: MITT VALG er en norsk tilpasset versjon av det universelt forebyggende undervisningsprogrammet Lions Quest som er utviklet i USA. MITT VALG er beskrevet som et livsmestringsprogram med fokus på sosial og emosjonell læring, psykisk helse, kritisk tenkning og faglig utvikling. Denne oppsummeringen tar for seg opplæringsprogrammet MITT VALG...

Academic attrition is a worldwide problem representing a significant economic loss and a disadvantage for students in terms of health and career prospects. We focus on the roles of academic skills, academic self-efficacy, and students' integration in exploring their relation to attrition intentions. Based on existing research, we expected a negativ...

Background: Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic-interpersonal therapies (PIT) are the most used outpatient treatments for eating disorders. Knowledge about the outcomes of these therapies in terms of remission is limited. Also, there is a lack of knowledge about how different therapeutic changes and patient characteristic affects out...

Academic attrition is a worldwide problem representing a significant economic loss anda disadvantage for students in terms of health and career prospects. We focus on theroles of academic skills, academic self-efficacy, and students’ integration in exploringtheir relation to attrition intentions. Based on existing research, we expected a negativere...

How has the concept of metacognition been used within basic and applied psychological research? We begin our answer by presenting a broad definition of metacognition, a historical overview of its development and its presence in research databases. To assess which function and facets are most frequently addressed within each of the sub-disciplines,...

Objective: The study examines the roles of study skills and academic self-efficacy in irrational academic delay, academic procrastination. Background and aims: Transition from upper-secondary school to higher education requires adapting to relatively unguided and complex educational environment. Acquisition of at least basic study skills (e.g. note...

We searched and meta-analyzed studies comparing flipped classroom teaching with traditional, lecture-based teaching to evaluate the evidence for the flipped classroom’s influence on continuous-learning measures, pass/fail rates, and student evaluations of teaching. Eight electronic reference databases were searched to retrieve relevant studies. Our...

Bakgrunn: Denne artikkelen er en kunnskapsoppsummering av effektene av tiltaket FRIENDS for life, et behandlingsprogram for barn og ungdommer med angst. Tiltaket er tilrettelagt for grupper, men kan også brukes individuelt. FRIENDS har som mål å hjelpe barn og ungdommer med å utvikle ferdigheter og kunnskaper som gjør dem bedre rustet til å håndter...

Individual differences in student learning influence academic performance, and two aspects influencing the learning process are the particular learning approach the students use and procrastination behaviour. We examined the relationships between learning approaches, procrastination and academic achievement (measured 1 year later as the grade point...

Approximately 30% of students drop out from Norwegian upper secondary schools. Academic achievement, as indexed by grade point average (GPA), is one of the strongest predictors of dropout. The present study aimed to examine the role of cognitive, school-related and affective/psychological predictors of GPA. In addition, we examined the psychometric...