My Education Research in Sweden

Winter at Lars Fargares Stiftung in Umea

I've had the pleasure of working with colleagues at Umea University. Some of the work has been with doctoral students in Behaviour Measurement. I had the pleasure of many conversations with Miguel Inzunza and Eva Knekta, now both employed at Umea. The group had leadership from Christina Wikström and Hanna Eklöf.

This study examined how empathy among police education candidates related to their cognitive abilities.

Inzunza, M., Brown, G. T. L., Stenlund, T., & Wikström, C. (2022). The relationship between subconstructs of empathy and general cognitive ability in the context of policing. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 907610.

This study showed that greater intellectual ability was associated with greater resilience and coping with academic demands.

Brown, G. T. L., & Eklöf, H. (2018). Swedish student perceptions of achievement practices: The role of intelligence. Intelligence, 69, 94-103.

My current collaboration is with Prof Torulf Palm and his colleagues in Math and Science Education on Formative Assessment. Here are some studies that look at how teachers respond to and think about assessment and feedback. There are more in the pipeline.

Brown, G. T. L., Andersson, C., Winberg, M., Palmberg, B., & Palm, T. (2024). Swedish teacher conceptions of assessment: A focus on improving outcomes. Education Inquiry, (231778842).

Brown, G. T. L., Andersson, C., Winberg, M., & Palm, T. (2023). Predicting formative feedback practices: Improving learning and minimising a tendency to ignore feedback. Frontiers in Education, 8(1241998).

Palm, T., Brown, G., & Palmberg, B. (2024, June 5-7). Effects of a teacher professional development program in formative assessment on teachers’ conceptions of feedback and assessment and their self-reported feedback practices. In Iannone, P., Moons, F., Drüke-Noe, C., Geraniou, E., Morselli, F., Klingbeil, K., Veldhuis, M., & Olsher, S. (Eds.). Proceedings of FAME 1–Feedback & Assessment in Mathematics Education (ETC 14) (pp. 234-237), Utrecht, NL.