About
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). My research focuses on teaching quality, educational measurement, and teacher education. I am currently involved in developing and piloting survey instruments for the Teacher Education Panel Study (TEPS), a research infrastructure project that aims to build a large national database for research on teacher education in Norway.
In my postdoctoral project, I investigate teaching and learning processes in teacher education, focusing on how teacher educators’ beliefs, competencies, and approaches to teaching shape student teachers’ learning approaches, course experiences, and learning outcomes. The project aims to better understand the mechanisms through which teaching in teacher education influences student teachers’ learning and professional development.
During my PhD in Education at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research at the University of Oslo, my work focused on teaching quality in primary and secondary education mathematics and science classrooms, with particular attention to the reliability and validity of student questionnaires and classroom observation instruments used to capture teaching quality. My broader research interests lie at the intersection of teaching and learning processes and educational inequity, either in primary, secondary, or higher education.
Through my research, I aim to contribute to a stronger empirical basis for understanding the underlying processes in (teacher) education systems.
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Teacher Education Panel Study (TEPS)
The Teacher Education Panel Study (TEPS) is a comprehensive study on the implementation of teacher education in Norway.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Jentsch, Armin;
Senden, Bas
(2025).
Hybrid frameworks to capture teaching quality in secondary classrooms: the case of the TEDS-Instruct observation system.
School Effectiveness and School Improvement.
Vol. 36.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2025.2527727
Nilsen, Trude;
Senden, Bas
; Ye, Wangqiong; Jentsch, Armin; Teig, Nani; König, Johannes
(2025).
Mathematics teaching quality in classrooms of different compositions in Norway.
ZDM: Mathematics Education.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-025-01722-y
Jentsch, Armin;
Senden, Bas
; Teig, Nani; Nilsen, Trude; König, Johannes; Kaiser, Gabriele Agnes Hildegard
(2025).
Using Generalizability Theory to examine the effects of presentation order on classroom observation scores.
Frontiers in Education.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1547204
Senden, Bas
; Jentsch, Armin; Teig, Nani; Nilsen, Trude; Fauskanger, Janne; Frågåt, Thomas; Maugesten, Marianne; Mork, Sonja Merethe; Mosvold, Reidar; Nortvedt, Guri A.; Olufsen, Magne; Sjøberg, Mari; Staberg, Ragnhild Lyngved; Selling, Alexander Jonas Viktor;
Stovner, Roar Bakken
; Ødegaard, Marianne
(2025).
Context matters: adapting and validating the TEDS-instruct observation instrument assessing teaching quality for its use in Norwegian primary education.
Frontiers in Education.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1483092
Senden, Bas
; Teig, Nani; Nilsen, Trude
(2023).
Studying the comparability of student perceptions of teaching quality across 38 countries.
International Journal of Educational Research Open.
Vol. 5.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2023.100309
Senden, Bas
; Nilsen, Trude; Teig, Nani
(2023).
The validity of student ratings of teaching quality: Factorial structure, comparability, and the relation to achievement.
Studies in Educational Evaluation.
Vol. 78.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2023.101274
Teig, Nani; Bergem, Ole Kristian; Nilsen, Trude;
Senden, Bas
(2021).
Gir utforskende arbeidsmåter i naturfag bedre læringsutbytte?.
Nilsen, Trude; Kaarstein, Hege (Ed.).
Med blikket mot naturfag. Nye analyser av TIMSS-data og trender 2015-2021. p. 46-72.
Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215045108-2021-03
Senden, Bas
; Nilsen, Trude; Blömeke, Sigrid
(2021).
Instructional Quality: A Review of Conceptualizations,
Measurement Approaches, and Research Findings.
Klette, Kirsti; Blikstad-Balas, Marte; Tengberg, Michael (Ed.).
Ways of Analyzing Teaching Quality.Potentials and Pitfalls. p. 140-172.
Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215045054-2021-05
