Research
Michael Tengberg holds a Ph.D. from the University of Gothenburg, 2011, and is a faculty member at the Department of Educational Sciences, Karlstad University. Research topics include issues related to the process of reading and reading instruction such as analysis of reader response, classroom interaction about texts, the effectiveness of reading interventions, and the validity of various reading assessment practices, e.g., reading comprehension tests.
Tengberg is currently engaged in the following research projects: National Assessments of Reading Comprehension (financed by an international postdoc scholarship 2015–2016), which is concerned with aspects of validity and reliability in high-stakes testing of reading comprehension; Equity in Assessment (funded by the Center for Language and Literature in Education, 2016-2018), which explores the effectiveness of rater training on interrater reliability of language performance assessment; and Linking Instruction and Student Achievement, which investigates the relationship between classroom instruction and student achievement in mathematics and reading. He is also part of the Research group On Subject-specific Education (ROSE), which was recently appointed a strong research group and received funding for an extensive research program entitled Transformations – school subjects, subject didactics, and learning 2017–2020.