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Joonas Luukkonen; Venla Bernelius; Riia Palmqvist; Kirsimarja Raitasalo – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study examines the connection between studying in selective classes and students' alcohol use using data from the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) from Finland. Linear probability models were used to investigate whether (1) studying in selective classes is associated with students' recent heavy episodic…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Special Classes, Adolescents, Drinking
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Aro, Tuija; Eklund, Kenneth; Eloranta, Anna-Kaija; Ahonen, Timo; Rescorla, Leslie – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Our purpose was to study the frequency of behavioral-emotional problems among children identified with a learning disability (LD). The data were obtained for 579 Finnish children (8-15 years) with reading disability (RD-only), math disability (MD-only), or both (RDMD) assessed at a specialized clinic between 1985 and 2017. We analyzed percentages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Incidence
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Pirkola, Ari – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2009
Introduction: Investigates how effectively Web search engines index new sites from different countries. The primary interest is whether new sites are indexed equally or whether search engines are biased towards certain countries. If major search engines show biased coverage it can be considered a significant economic and political problem because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Web Sites, Search Engines