Bente Rigmor Walgermo

Bente Rigmor Walgermo is an Associate Professor in Special Education at the University of Stavanger's Faculty of Educational Sciences and Humanities, affiliated with the National Center for Reading Education and Reading Research. Her research focuses on early childhood and elementary education, specifically reading, writing, motivation, and assessment. She investigates how feedback and innovative assessment forms (including adaptive testing) impact young learners' motivation and literacy development.

Research Interests: Walgermo's work centers on motivational feedback mechanisms for reading/writing, adaptive assessment design, and early literacy interventions. She explores how assessments can simultaneously measure skills and enhance student engagement, with particular attention to struggling readers.

Research Trends: Her recent publications emphasize systematic reviews of feedback practices, development of adaptive screening tools, and motivational frameworks in literacy education. Studies consistently address teacher training implications, equity in assessment, and technology integration.

Grants and Projects: She leads multiple major initiatives including:

• Read to me (RCN): Progress monitoring for struggling readers
• Adaptive National Screening (NDET): 1st/3rd grade reading diagnostics
• Write like you want to write (RCN): Creative writing platforms
• HUMAN Reading Assessment (RCN)
• AILIT Network (Erasmus+): AI literacy
• Gameplay (RCN): Predicting reading difficulties

Student Advising: Supervised graduate researchers including Ruth Karin Simonsen (2023), Siri Marie Rosnes (2022), and Camilla Egeland (2022) on topics related to reading instruction and assessment.