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Eero Laakkonen
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Early Oral Language Comprehension, Task Orientation, and Foundational Reading Skills as Predictors of Grade 3 Reading Comprehension
2016
The present five-year longitudinal study from preschool to grade 3 examined the developmental associations among oral language comprehension, task orientation, reading precursors, and reading fluency, as well as their role in predicting grade 3 reading comprehension. Ninety Finnish-speaking students participated in the study. The students’ oral language comprehension (vocabulary knowledge, listening comprehension, and inference making) and task orientation were assessed in preschool, kindergarten, and grade 3. Reading precursors (letter knowledge and phonological awareness) were assessed at the first two timepoints and reading fluency at the third timepoint. Structural equation modeling sho…
Early mathematical skill profiles of prematurely and full-term born children
2017
Abstract Preterm birth is associated with low mathematical skills in children. This study on five-year-old Finnish children investigated whether mathematical skill profiles would differ between prematurely and full-term born children and how such profiles and other cognitive skills would be related. Mathematical skills included digit knowledge, spontaneous focusing on numerosity, arithmetic, counting and geometric skills. The investigated cognitive skills were phonological processing, working memory, instruction comprehension, speeded naming, inhibition and visuomotor skills. The participants were 119 preterm children with birth weight
Hackmanite—The Natural Glow-in-the-Dark Material
2020
“Glow-in-the-dark” materials are known to practically everyone who has ever traveled by airplane or cruise ship, since they are commonly used for self-lit emergency exit signs. The green afterglow, persistent luminescence (PeL), is obtained from divalent europium doped to a synthetic strontium aluminate, but there are also some natural minerals capable of afterglow. One such mineral is hackmanite, the afterglow of which has never been thoroughly investigated, even if its synthetic versions can compete with some of the best commercially available synthetic PeL materials. Here we combine experimental and computational data to show that the white PeL of natural hackmanite is generated and cont…
How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry?
2021
Today’s students search, evaluate and actively use Web information in their school assignments, that is, they conduct an online inquiry. This current survey study addresses sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry, and to what extent free-time and school-related Internet activity, gender and learning beliefs explain these. The questionnaire was administered in 10 schools to 340 sixth-graders in Finland. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed three elements of self-efficacy beliefs: self-efficacy in Web searching, the evaluation of sources and synthesising information. Furthermore, attitudes towards online inquiry loaded into two fact…
sj-pdf-1-jis-10.1177_01655515211043708 – Supplemental material for How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students…
2021
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jis-10.1177_01655515211043708 for How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry? by Eero Sormunen, Norbert Erdmann, Suzanne CSA Otieno, Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann, Eero Laakkonen, Teemu Mikkonen, Md Arman Hossain, Roberto González-Ibáñez, Mario Quintanilla-Gatica, Paavo HT Leppänen and Marja Vauras in Journal of Information Science
sj-pdf-1-jis-10.1177_01655515211043708 – Supplemental material for How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students…
2021
Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jis-10.1177_01655515211043708 for How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry? by Eero Sormunen, Norbert Erdmann, Suzanne CSA Otieno, Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann, Eero Laakkonen, Teemu Mikkonen, Md Arman Hossain, Roberto González-Ibáñez, Mario Quintanilla-Gatica, Paavo HT Leppänen and Marja Vauras in Journal of Information Science