The research conducted at the Department of
Communication and Learning in Science (CLS) aims to deepen our understanding in
the following fields:
- Multimodal and transdisciplinary learning
- Engineering education research
- Discipline-specific communication and the
link to knowledge generation in academic and professional environments
- Bibliometrics and bibliometric methods
- Media and information literacy and
information behaviour
The department’s research profile is
characterised by diversity, interdisciplinarity and the approaches it applies
to communication, learning and knowledge generation. Much of the research is
directly linked to the department’s educational activities, both in terms of
our teaching mandate and within the framework of the department’s mandate to
act as an educational development hub for Chalmers.
Research is conducted both individually and
in various collaborative forms within and outside the department and within
Chalmers and with external partners (national and international). Examples of
such collaboration are educational and didactic development projects (including
action research), joint research projects and co-authored publications.
Ongoing
research
The following are examples of research currently
being conducted by CLS staff:
- The effects of English as a teaching
language on Writing to Learn, peer feedback and writing within one discipline
- Knowledge and testing of English
vocabulary
- Modelling of data and results
comments in scientific texts
- Metacognitive processes that support
the development of genre awareness
- Modelling and evaluation of ‘flipped
classroom’ teaching methods
- Citation and publication behaviour
among researchers in technology and science
- Characteristics (for example
availability and visibility) of documents cited on Wikipedia
- Cognitive dissonance between
assessed researchers/authors and assessors/examiners in technology and science
- Self-regulated learning in authentic
learning environments
- App development to support language
integration of Arabic speakers who have recently arrived in Sweden
If you have any questions about our research, please contact
Hans Malmström.
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