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Sondre Sæther Bolland

PhD Candidate
Department of Informatics
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  • E-mailsondre.bolland@uib.no
  • Phone+4746964520
  • Visitor Address
    HIB - Thormøhlens gate 55
    5006 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7803
    5020 Bergen

My research interests revolve around enhancing the teaching methods employed in large-scale courses (enrolling more than 300 students). I am particularly interested in exploring strategies to cultivate a strong sense of belonging among students, establishing effective faculty-student connections and engagement through various assessment techniques, and integrating students' prior knowledge seamlessly into the teaching process.

Ongoing projects:

National Prior Knowledge Test in Programming (website)Stage: Test is ready for distribution in august.Collaboration between 11 higher education institutions in Norway, led by Sondre S. Bolland.

Increased Student-Faculty Contact in Large Classes by Monthly Lecturer InteractionStage: Data collected and analysis in progress.Author: Sondre S. Bolland.

Ecological Intervention to Increase STEM-student Sense of BelongingStage: Data collected and analysis in progress.Authors: Sondre S. Bolland, Sehoya Cotner & Mirjam Glessmer.

Identifying STEM-student Challenges and Mitigating their AffectStage: Data collected and analysis in progress.Authors: Sondre S. Bolland, Emili Rønning, Tiril Try, Sehoya Cotner, Kjersti Daae & Mirjam Glessmer.

  • Course instructor for Object-oriented Programming, spring 2023
  • Teaching assistant for Algorithms, Datastructures and Programming, 2021 & 2022
  • Teaching assistant for Object-oriented Programming, spring 2022
  • Group leader in the following subjects:
    • Introduction to Programming, 2017 & 2020
    • Object-oriented Programming, 2019 & 2020
    • Introduction to Machine Learning, 2019
    • Basic Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence, 2018
    • Introduction to the Cognitive Sciences, 2018
Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2023). Mandatory or Voluntary Course Work in Introductory Programming Courses? NIKT: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning. 12 pages.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2023). What challenges do students face in introductory STEM courses, and how can instructors help?
  • Show author(s) (2023). National Prior Knowledge Test in Programming - How proficient are incoming higher education students? .
  • Show author(s) (2023). Mandatory or Voluntary Course Work in Introductory Programming Courses?
  • Show author(s) (2023). Contextualizing a psychosocial intervention in a Norwegian introductory-STEM course.

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