The Norwegian Education Mirror 2022

In the Student Survey 2021, 61 per cent of pupils stated that there is peace and quiet to work during classes. The proportion who said that there was sufficient peace and quiet to work is somewhat smaller than in previous years, where it has sat between 63 and 64 per cent. The proportion of pupils who experience sufficient peace and quiet for working is a little higher in upper secondary school than in the lower grades (Wendelborg 2022).

The Student Survey findings about sufficient peace and quiet for working are also supported by the PISA survey, which shows that Norwegian pupils reported better peace and quiet for working in Norwegian classes in 2018 than they had done in 2000 and 2009. Sufficient peace and quiet for working in Norwegian classes has a positive connection with pupils' performance in reading (Jensen et al. 2019).

Teachers also report that there is sufficient peace and quiet in the classroom. When it comes to how time is used in a typical teaching session, they state on average that 82 per cent of the time is used for teaching and learning, while 10 per cent is spent keeping the classroom calm. This situation is different to what we find in many other countries, where this development has gone in a negative direction. According to Norwegian secondary school teachers, teaching gets underway quickly after classes have started (Carlsten et al. 2020).