Videos from Quality in Nordic Teaching (QUINT)

Quality in Nordic Teaching (QUINT) was a Nordic Centre of Excellence funded by NordForsk under the Nordic initiative on educational research, Education for Tomorrow.

QUINT united researchers from all the Nordic countries investigating aspects of teaching quality via classroom video recordings.

Through both large- and small-scale video studies in classrooms from grades 5–10 and logging student–teacher interactions on digital media, the centre produced new insights into what characterizes teaching quality in Nordic classrooms.

QUINT has had major impact on academia, school policy, and the teaching sector.

About QUINT

  • A Nordic Centre of Excellence investigating teaching quality in the Nordic countries via video recordings taken in Nordic classrooms.
  • Duration: 2018–2024
  • Participants: Approximately 70 researchers from eight institutions in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland
  • Funded by NordForsk, additional funding partners include the Academy of Finland, the Swedish Research Council, the Research Council of Norway, the Ministry of Education and Children (Iceland), and the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education.

Below you can find videos produced by the QUINT researchers.

Michael Tengberg summarises some key findings from QUINT's work on using classroom videos in teacher training.
The QUALE project investigated how teachers understand and implement inquiry-based literature teaching, focusing on seven strategies surrounding text interpretation—one before, five during, and one after reading the text. The foundational strategy emphasizes students' initial experiences with the text, which then guides subsequent discussions and interpretations. Findings from QUALE show increased student participation in literature discussions and improved efficacy at interpreting literature when using this method.
A day in the life of a VIST Research Assistant
What actually goes on in a Nordic social science classroom? In this video, Nora Elise Hesby Mathé presents key findings from QUISST: Quality in Social Science Teaching.
Video to Support Excellence in Teaching (VIST) started the second round of filming and supervision of teachers in Norway.
Identifying “good teaching” is considered to be one of the greatest challenges in educational research today. In this video Dr. Jennifer M. Luoto discusses how we can understand good mathematics teaching from different perspectives of classroom research, and why it is so difficult to determine what good teaching and good mathematics teaching is.
In the LISA-Nordic study, carried out at QUINT, researchers studied more than 500 hours of classroom videos and analysed the teachers’ instruction. The analysis focused on specific aspects of teaching that research has shown have an effect on students’ learning. Certain aspects of teaching quality were very high in all Nordic countries, other aspects showed room for improvement. One area where Nordic classrooms score highly is "classroom environment." Teachers in the Nordic countries are very good at creating a respectful and tolerant classroom environment for their students.
A Nordic team of researchers led by Professor Kirsti Klette at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research is granted a new Nordic Centre of Excellence. The centre Quality in Nordic Teaching (QUINT) will contribute to new insights concerning teaching and learning, by studying classrooms in the Nordic countries.
Video of authentic classroom instruction is being used in a variety of teacher education and professional development contexts. QUINT researchers have found that these types of videos open new possibilities for targeting professional development work on areas in which teachers themselves want to improve, such as feedback to students. Classroom videos have also proven valuable for training teaching students in how to notice important events in the classroom, events which may otherwise go unseen.
The Connected Classroom project has examined teaching quality in the context of the digitalisation of education.  In this video Marie Nilsberth explains that while digital technology creates new opportunities in the classroom there are also pitfalls.