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Aura, Isabella; Järvelä, Simo; Hassan, Lobna; Hamari, Juho – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examines the effects of a role-play-based pedagogical method in Finland on the twenty-first century skills propensity among 6th graders (12-year-olds). The approach entails a simulation of a society in a gamified learning environment as part of their formal education. Structural Equation Modeling was employed to analyze the students' (N…
Descriptors: Role Playing, 21st Century Skills, Teaching Methods, Grade 6
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Seppanen, Marita – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Argumentation and metacognitive reflection are required for effective thinking and convincing argumentation in engineering co-design. This study investigated engineering students' argumentation and metacognitive reflection in their final group reports and their correlation with the quality of their work in co-design. The groups practiced and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Engineering Education, Design, Persuasive Discourse
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Jaskari, Minna-Maarit; Syrjälä, Henna – Journal of Marketing Education, 2023
In this article, we examine the linkage between students' game-playing motivations and a wide variety of gamification elements within higher marketing education. Using an interpretive and convergent mixed-methods design, we discover four clusters of students that vary in terms of their game-motivational bases and views on gamification elements.…
Descriptors: Marketing, Game Based Learning, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Lau, Kwok-Chi; Ho, Sui-Chu Esther – Research in Science Education, 2022
This study analyzes how students' reported teaching practices of their teachers and their attitudes towards science are related to the science achievements of four high-performing countries/economies in PISA 2015: Hong Kong, China, Canada, and Finland. A study of these regions can shed light on the commonalities of and differences between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Science Achievement, High Achievement
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Star, Jon R.; Tuomela, Dimitri; Joglar-Prieto, Nuria; Hästö, Peter; Palkki, Riikka; Abánades, Miguel Á.; Pejlare, Johanna; Jiang, R. H.; Li, Lijia; Liu, Ru-De – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: In this cross-national study, Spanish, Finnish, and Swedish middle and high school students' procedural flexibility was examined, with the specific intent of determining whether and how students' equation-solving accuracy and flexibility varied by country, age, and/or academic track. The 791 student participants were asked to solve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, High School Students, Problem Solving
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Tatiana, Shubina; Hanna, Järvenoja; Kristiina, Mänty; Jouni, Peltonen; Sanna, Järvelä – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study explored the situational interest and emotional valence of 13-year-old students (N = 94) participating in a five-session science course. The relationship between students' situational interest and emotional valence and their individual interest was also studied. During each session, students participated in a collaborative learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Cooperative Learning, Science Instruction
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Koskela, Minja – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2022
This article explores how social class, "race," and their intersections manifest in Finnish popular music education (PME) through an exploration of popular music practices in one upper elementary music classroom where I worked as a teacher-researcher. By engaging with systems reflexivity, I illustrate how social class, racialization, and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Music, Music Education, Democracy
Nani Teig, Editor; Trude Nilsen, Editor; Kajsa Yang Hansen, Editor – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2024
This open access book presents original research on effective and equitable teacher practice in mathematics and science education across Nordic countries. It focuses on three key aspects of teacher practice: what teachers teach, how teachers teach, and how teachers assess their students. To provide a comprehensive understanding of teacher…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods
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Volante, Louis; DeLuca, Christopher; Adie, Lenore; Baker, Eva; Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi; Heritage, Margaret; Schneider, Christoph; Stobart, Gordon; Tan, Kelvin; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
The synergy, or lack thereof, between large-scale and classroom assessment has been fiercely debated in both academic and policy spheres for decades around the world. This paper seeks to explicate how different countries are utilizing large-scale testing and test results at the classroom level. Through country profiles, this paper analyzes…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Measurement, Teaching Methods
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Ranta, Samuli; Uusiautti, Satu; Hyvärinen, Sanna – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how positive pedagogical practices are implemented by early childhood education (ECE) teachers in Finland. A survey was conducted among 625 teachers, enquiring about specific positive pedagogical practices in ECEC. It was found that the correlation between the sum variables and principal components were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers
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Kálmán, Orsolya; Tynjälä, Päivi; Skaniakos, Terhi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Many studies have been conducted about academics' approaches to teaching, professional development and perceived departmental culture, but their interconnectedness has been considered to a lesser extent. The research presented here examined these patterns comparatively by disciplinary fields and years of teaching experience. Three inventories were…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Departments, Organizational Culture
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Suoranta, Juha; Tomperi, Tuukka – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2021
World-renowned educational theorist Paulo Freire has a decades-long legacy reaching all corners of the world. In this reception study, we ask, is there a Nordic Freire, that is, have the Nordic educators and scholars recognized Paulo Freire's works in the past decades? Our reception study's purpose is not to go into depth to Freire's thinking but…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Educational Theories
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Häkkinen, Päivi; Virtanen, Tuomo; Virtanen, Anne; Näykki, Piia; Pöysä-Tarhonen, Johanna; Niilo-Rämä, Mikko; Järvelä, Sanna – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2020
To support the development of pupils' 21st-century skills, teachers themselves must also be competent in these skills and learn them during pre-service teacher education. The aim of this study is to investigate what kind of profiles emerge among Finnish first-year pre-service teachers' (N = 872) in terms of perceptions of their strategic learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Learning Strategies, 21st Century Skills, Foreign Countries
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Henriksen, Danah; Henderson, Michael; Creely, Edwin; Ceretkova, Sona; Cernochová, Miroslava; Sendova, Evgenia; Sointu, Erkko T.; Tienken, Christopher H. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2018
In this article, we consider the benefits and challenges of enacting creativity in the K-12 context and examine educational policy with regard to twenty-first century learning and technology. Creativity is widely considered to be a key construct for twenty-first century education. In this article, we review the literature on creativity relevant to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Technology Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mihajlovic, Christopher – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2019
This paper investigates the relationship between the Finnish national curriculum and inclusive practices of physical education (PE) from the viewpoint of teachers from Finland. Case studies were conducted with the intention of developing understandings of the teacher's perspective on the current PE curricula at the time of transition to a new…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, National Curriculum, Physical Education, Special Education Teachers
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