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Direct linkDindar, Muhterem; Suorsa, Anna; Hermes, Jan; Karppinen, Pasi; Näykki, Piia – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive transformation in K-12 settings towards online education. It is important to explore the factors that facilitate online teaching technology adoption of teachers during the pandemic. The aim of this study was to compare Learning Management System (LMS) acceptance of Finnish K-12 teachers who have been using a…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Expectation
Kanniainen, Laura; Kiili, Carita; Tolvanen, Asko; Aro, Mikko; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The present study evaluated the extent to which literacy skills (reading fluency, written spelling, and reading comprehension), together with nonverbal reasoning, prior knowledge, and gender, are related to students' online research and comprehension (ORC) performance. The ORC skills of 426 sixth graders were measured using a Finnish adaptation of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Online Searching, Student Research
Nivala, Markus; Lehtinen, Erno; Helle, Laura; Kronqvist, Pauliina; Paranko, Jorma; Säljö, Roger – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2013
Over the years, the role and extent of the basic sciences in medical curricula have been challenged by research on clinical expertise, clinical teachers, and medical students, as well as by the development and diversification of the medical curricula themselves. The aim of this study was to examine how prior knowledge of basic histology and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anatomy, Medical Students, Predictor Variables
Taatila, Vesa; Down, Samuel – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the measurement of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in the student population of different academic programmes, in order to enhance entrepreneurship-related procedures within universities. Design/methodology/approach: A survey-based tool for measuring EO is presented and used in one university. The…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, College Students, Measurement Objectives, Measurement Techniques
Hailikari, Telle Katriina; Nevgi, Anne – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
This study explores the relationship between different types of prior knowledge and student achievement in an introductory chemistry course. Student achievement was regarded as the pace of completing the course as well as the final grade. A model of prior knowledge is proposed; this distinguishes between different types of prior knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Introductory Courses, Chemistry
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
