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Assessing reading and online research comprehension: Do difficulties in attention and executive function matter?

2021

This study evaluated the relation between sixth graders' (N = 426) teacher-rated difficulties in attention and executive function (EF) and their comprehension skills. Reading comprehension was assessed with a multiple-choice task and online research and comprehension (ORC) with a problem-solving task. The analyses were controlled for gender, reading fluency and nonverbal reasoning. To investigate differences in students' performance between the tasks, comprehension skills in the multiple-choice task were also controlled for in the ORC task. Structural equation models showed that teacher-rated attention and EF difficulties were related to students' performance more in the problem-solving tas…

Longitudinal associations between third‐grade teaching styles and sixth‐grade reading skills : a 3‐year follow‐up study

2022

Background Most previous studies of teaching styles and reading skills have been cross-sectional. Longitudinal research is needed to clarify the direction of effects. The present longitudinal study examined the degree to which differences in teaching styles in the third grade predict the sixth-grade reading performance. The consistency of the findings was addressed by comparing results across students in two countries (Finland and Estonia). Methods A total of 1,057 students (50.9% boys) were followed from the third to sixth grade. Teaching styles of third-grade teachers (N = 70) were examined as predictors of the development of reading (i.e., third-grade to sixth-grade reading fluency and c…

Kids Inspire Kids for STEAM

2017

Abstract The goal of the Kids Inspiring Kids in STEAM (KIKS) project was to raise students' awareness towards the multi- and transdisciplinary connections between the STEAM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics), and make the learning about topics and phenomena from these fields more enjoyable. In order to achieve these goals, KIKS project has popularized the STEAM-concept by projects based on the students inspiring other students-approach and by utilizing new technologies, tools, open educational resources, and everyday items and materials. Through the students-inspiring-other-students-approach, we have aimed to get participating students developing STEAM activitie…

Individual Creativity and Career Choices of Pre-teens in the Context of a Math-Art Learning Event

2021

A sample of 392 students (aged 12-13 years, M± SD: 12. 52% girls) completed a learning module integrating informal hands-on mathematics and arts activity (extending STEM to STEAM). Within a 140 minute workshop period participants worked with commercially available ‘4Dframe’ Math and STEAM learning toolkits to design and create original, personal and individual geometrical structures. Two science pedagogues acted as tutors supervising the process and intervened only when needed. A pre-/post-test design monitored individual creativity, relative autonomy, and career choice preference. Path analysis elaborated the role of creativity (measured with two subscales: act and flow), and it showed tha…

Meaningful learning in teacher education

2018

This study explores meaningful learning in the context of teacher education. The study showed the importance of course design in generating meaningful learning. Opportunities to gain strong experience are crucial to meaningful learning. Meaningful learning provides space for both positive and uncomfortable emotions. peerReviewed

Ohjelmointisatukirjat

2015

Tässä tutkielmassa käsitellään ohjelmoinnin opettamista lapsille satukirjojen avulla. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan syksyllä 2016 voimaan astuvan opetussuunnitelman oh- jelmoinnin opettamisen tavoitteiden toteutumista kahdessa suomenkielisessä ohjelmointisa- tukirjassa. This thesis is about teaching computer programming for children with fairy tale books. The study examines added programming-related objectives of the new Finnish school system curriculum, which will come into operation in Autumn 2016. This study seeks imple- mentations of these programming-related objectives in two of the children’s storybooks avai- lable in Finnish.

Response-To-Intervention in Finland and the United States : Mathematics Learning Support as an Example

2018

The effects of socio-scientific issue based inquiry learning on pupils’ representations of landscape

2016

AbstractResearch has demonstrated that socio-scientific issues based inquiry learning has significant advantages for learning outcomes and students’ motivation. Further, a successful understanding of landscapes in environmental and geographical education can be achieved by combining informal learning environments with school education. Therefore this case study focuses on how socio-scientific issues based inquiry learning carried out in school and in a Nature Park, influences primary school pupils’ (n = 36) representations of landscapes. The pupils were asked to draw and write about landscape both before and after intervention. The data was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively to inves…

Keresztény iskolai nyelvi tájkép

2017

Irasomban az oktatas targyi kornyezetenek es az iskolai műveltsegnek a kapcsolatat elemzem az iskolai nyelvi tajkep vizsgalatanak keretein belul. Esettanulmanykent egy finnorszagi kereszteny iskolaval foglalkozom. Mig a finn oktatasi rendszerben (a tantervben es az oktatas szervezeseben) a vallasos műveltseg mas műveltsegteruletektől elkulonulten jelenik meg, a vizsgalt kereszteny iskola pedagogiai gyakorlatat a vallasos es nem vallasos műveltseget (ujra)egyesitő szemlelet hatarozza meg. Kulcsszavak: iskolai nyelvi tajkep, iskolai műveltseg, finn oktatas, Biblia, ima. In this paper, I deal with connections between the material environment of education and school literacy in the framework of…

Ubiquitous Learning in Appropriate Learning Environments

2018

This article concentrates on blended learning study module that was carried out in class teachers’ adult education. It offered the students versatile, unique, individual and communal possibilities to fully study in authentic contextual environments, exploiting virtual tools. The goal of the planning of this module was to create a learning environment that would give a student an optimal learning experience in versatile, authentic, e-learning environments. In the study, the ubiquitous learning model was tried out in a 6 credits’ study module for class teachers’ adult education that was based on the principles of transformational pedagogy (OED). The module was carried out in flexible and vers…