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Direct linkVataja, Pia; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Aro, Mikko; Westerholm, Jari; Risberg, Ann-Katrine; Salmi, Paula – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The aim of the study was to examine which predictor variables are related to literacy skills among monolingual Swedish (n = 269) and bilingual Finnish-Swedish (n = 229) children at the first grade in the Swedish-speaking schools in Finland. The participants were assessed in phonological awareness, letter knowledge, rapid automatized naming (RAN),…
Descriptors: Literacy, Monolingualism, Bilingual Students, Finno Ugric Languages
Download full textSuominen, Sanni; Ikonen, Kirsi; Asikainen, Mervi – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This article addresses 824 Finnish vocational upper secondary level students' self-assessments related to their basic ICT skills and their views regarding the importance of ICT skills for their future career. A questionnaire was distributed to students representing seven vocational fields who were starting their studies leading to a vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Technological Literacy
Yli-Piipari, Sami; Gråstén, Arto; Huhtiniemi, Mikko; Salin, Kasper; Jaakkola, Timo – European Physical Education Review, 2022
One of the central goals of school physical education (PE) is to improve physical literacy in youth to nurture their ability, confidence, and desire to be physically active for life. The aim of this study was to examine the stability of the selected PE-centered physical literacy indicators on school students' objectively measured…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Knowledge Level, Health Behavior, Physical Activity Level
Silinskas, Gintautas; Ahonen, Arto K.; Wilska, Terhi-Anna – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
The aim or the present study was to examine the relative importance of financial education in school and families and dispositional factors (competitiveness, work mastery, meta-cognition) in predicting financial literacy among Finnish adolescents. The data on the 4328 Finnish 15-year-olds was drawn from the PISA 2018 assessment. Financial literacy…
Descriptors: Money Management, Literacy, Knowledge Level, Adolescents
Hermans, Mikaela; Korhonen, Johan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
The aim of this study is to examine Finnish ninth graders' attitudes towards the consequences of climate change, their views on climate change mitigation and the impact of a set of selected predictors on their willingness to act in climate change mitigation. Students (N = 549) from 11 secondary schools participated in the questionnaire-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Student Attitudes
Houtsonen, Jarmo; Kylmä, Jari; Korhonen, Teija; Välimäki, Maritta; Suominen, Tarja – College Student Journal, 2014
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are often subject to blame, fear and avoidance, particularly if they are perceived as personally responsible for their infection due to their risky behaviour or life style choices. Some people however, react to PLWHA with sympathy and a willingness to care. This paper explores how university students (n = 282)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Torppa, Minna; Parrila, Rauno; Niemi, Pekka; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
We examined the double deficit hypothesis (Wolf & Bowers, 1999) and literacy development in a longitudinal dataset of 1,006 Finnish children who were nonreaders at school entry. A single phonological awareness (PA) deficit was a predictor of pseudoword spelling accuracy and reading fluency, and a single rapid automatized naming (RAN) deficit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Orthographic Symbols, Emergent Literacy, Longitudinal Studies
Hailikari, Telle; Nevgi, Anne; Lindblom-Ylanne, Sari – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2007
This study investigates how different types of prior knowledge influence student achievement and how different assessment measures influence the observed effect of prior knowledge. We introduce a model of prior knowledge that distinguishes between different types of prior knowledge and uses different assessment measures to assess different types…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Prior Learning, Academic Achievement, Case Studies
