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Developing Students Well-Being and Engagement in Higher Education during COVID-19—A Case Study of Web-Based Learning in Finland
2023
COVID-19 rapidly and extensively changed the normal everyday practices of societies, and there is no going back to the past. Universities also had to adapt and re-establish their normal routines, from policies to practices. In this article, we explore university students’ experiences of web-based learning, their well-being, and engagement during the pandemic. As a theoretical framework, we use the concept of the university student engagement inventory (USEI), which includes behavioral, cognitive, and emotional dimensions. The data were collected during the COVID-19 pandemic from university students (N = 35) via an online survey and analyzed using a thematic content analysis. According to th…
Pedagogical practices predicting perceived learning of social skills among university students
2022
The aim of this study was to examine what kinds of pedagogical practices predict perceived learning of university students’ social skills in classes where these skills are not set as learning outcomes. Data were collected from students of various disciplines by means of a questionnaire and then analysed using regression analysis. Students’ learning of social skills was explained by pedagogical factors related to 1) the modes of teaching and learning, 2) the features of the constructivist learning environment, 3) the features of the integrative pedagogy, and 4) the circumstances pertaining to the atmosphere of the learning environments involved in their studies. Factors belonging to three of…
Application of the Information Bottleneck method to discover user profiles in a Web store
2018
The paper deals with the problem of discovering groups of Web users with similar behavioral patterns on an e-commerce site. We introduce a novel approach to the unsupervised classification of user sessions, based on session attributes related to the user click-stream behavior, to gain insight into characteristics of various user profiles. The approach uses the agglomerative Information Bottleneck (IB) algorithm. Based on log data for a real online store, efficiency of the approach in terms of its ability to differentiate between buying and non-buying sessions was validated, indicating some possible practical applications of the our method. Experiments performed for a number of session sampl…
Foreign language learning disabilities : theoretical and practical tools for English teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools
2005
Kahden digitaalisen oppimisympäristön käytettävyystutkimus
2016
Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tavoitteena oli tarkastella opiskelijoiden kokemuksia digitaalisen oppimisympäristön käytettävyydestä mahdollisten kehitettävien osa-alueiden löytämiseksi. Tavoitteeseen pyrittiin vastaamaan seuraavien tutkimuskysymyksten myötä: Millaiseksi kahden eri oppilaitoksen opiskelijat kokevat käyttämänsä digitaalisen oppimisympäristön käytettävyyden SUS-mittarilla ja avoimilla kysymyksillä arvioituna? Mitä seikkoja opiskelijat nostavat esiin käyttämänsä digitaalisen oppimisympäristön käytettävyyden kehittämiseksi? Työn alkuosassa esitellään verkko-oppimisen ja -pedagogiikan teoriaa. Päätuloksina tässä tutkimuksessa tulivat esiin Moodle -oppimisympäristön osalta hyvä kä…
Automatic evaluation of information provider reliability and expertise
2013
Published version of an article in the journal: World Wide Web. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11280-013-0249-x Q&A social media have gained a lot of attention during the recent years. People rely on these sites to obtain information due to a number of advantages they offer as compared to conventional sources of knowledge (e.g., asynchronous and convenient access). However, for the same question one may find highly contradicting answers, causing an ambiguity with respect to the correct information. This can be attributed to the presence of unreliable and/or non-expert users. These two attributes (reliability and expertise) significantly affect the quality o…
A systematic review of functional numeracy measures for 9–12 -year-olds: Validity and reliability evidence
2023
This systematic review aimed to summarize the characteristics and the measurement properties of functional numeracy measures developed for use by teachers among 9–12-year-old children with or without mathematical learning difficulties. A systematic search from five databases was conducted based on pre-defined criteria. PRISMA guidelines were followed for reporting the results. The terminology and classification of measurement properties adopted by the COSMIN taxonomy was used. Twenty-one studies of 18 measures met the inclusion criteria. Most of the identified measures did not report on several measurement properties due to incomplete or missing psychometric data. Knowledge of Mathematical …
La sociedad frente al espejo. Aproximaciones al capital social en Argentina
2015
El siguiente articulo presenta los resultados de una primera serie de mediciones sobre algunos elementos que participan del concepto de capital social, centrandonos en la confianza interpersonal y en las instituciones, y en los atributos considerados relevantes para ser un buen ciudadano en la Argentina, realizada por el Observatorio de Capital Social de la Universidad de Palermo y de la Consultora Carlos Fara y Asociados. Mientras que los primeros resultados parecen sugerir una convergencia entre los rasgos individualistas y el descredito de las instituciones asociadas a los asuntos publicos (politica, economia), una observacion mas atenta de la positiva valoracion ciudadana que mantienen …
La valutazione finale.
2009
L’articolo presenta parte dei risultati di una ricerca svolta sulla didattica universitaria nell'ambito del progetto "Competenze metacognitive e processi di autovalutazione nel blended e-learning con metodologie di apprendimento cooperativo per una formazione universitaria personalizzata"(PRIN 2006). Per la valutazione complessiva finale degli obiettivi conseguiti dagli studenti ci si è avvalsi di due differenti strumenti: i focus group e il portfolio. Da una parte sono state realizzate due sessioni di focus group che hanno permesso di effettuare un’analisi qualitativa della percezione degli studenti universitari sia rispetto all’attività formativa svolta, sia rispetto alle loro competenze …
Emergenza Covid-19 e sviluppo della competenza metacognitiva dei docenti universitari neoassunti
2021
La spinta all’innovazione verso ambienti di apprendimento caratterizzati da un uso intensivo della tecnologia, determinata dalla crisi pandemica, costituisce una questione strategica per lo sviluppo dell’alta formazione. In questa direzione, la formazione e professionalizzazione del docente universitario sul versante pedagogico-didattico-valutativo rappresenta un’azione rilevante con potenziale impatto sul sistema universitario nel suo complesso che va oltre il periodo di emergenza COVID- 19. Il presente contributo si propone di indagare alcuni fattori utili alla programmazione di iniziative di faculty development specificatamente dedicate ai docenti neoassunti, finalizzate al miglioramento…