Evidence gap maps from the Knowledge Centre for Education: What do we know, and where are the gaps in educational research?

Evidence Gap Maps provide a visual overview of existing research and highlight areas where more knowledge is needed. Explore the interactive maps by clicking on the coloured circles to learn more.

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The FINNUT Web Database 2022

The Knowledge Centre for Education has produced an evidence gap map which includes all research outcomes registered at the Research Council Norway as products of funding from the Research and Innovation in Education programme (in Norwegian: FINNUT programme). FINNUT funds educational research within four main topics; Teaching and learning – Professional education and practice – Management, leadership and organization – Education and work.  In this map, you can access information about scientific articles, chapters in books and conference proceedings from projects funded by FINNUT.

Inclusion of Children With Special Education Needs in the Nordic countries: An Evidence Gap Map of the Empirical Literature

In this systematic scoping review, research on the inclusion of students with special education needs (SEN) in Nordic countries was reviewed to describe the scope and types of empirical research, identify the practices and approaches on the inclusion of students with SEN, and conceptually map how particular concepts (i.e., inclusion, SEN) are referred to by the authors of each study in the empirical literature.

Research on Nordic Initial Teacher Education: An Evidence Gap Map

This systematic scoping review offers access to English-language research on teacher education conducted in the Nordic countries. It provides a structured overview of current research trends and themes, supporting deeper insight into both teacher education and the scholarly work surrounding it.

Life Skills in Compulsory Education

This evidence-gap map visualizes descriptive data from a scoping review on life skills in compulsory education, mapping study characteristics such as research design, methodology, context and sample characteristics across 50 empirical studies published between 2013 and 2023.