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Meier, Heidi; Lepp, Marina – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Especially in large courses, feedback is often given only on the final results; less attention is paid to the programming process. Today, however, some programming environments, e.g., Thonny, log activities during programming and have the functionality of replaying the programming process. This information can be used to provide feedback, and this…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education, Teaching Methods
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Ching-Ni Hsieh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This study examined the role of writing task types and L2 reading proficiency on young English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing performances. The participants were 185 students (Grades 7 and 8) from Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands. The students responded to a descriptive and an email writing tasks that assessed their writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Konttinen, Kalle; Veivo, Outi; Salo, Pia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
Translation graduates need organisational skills to be able to cooperate in translation service production workflows. This paper explores the development of translation students' workflow conceptions in a simulated translation company learning environment. Using the standard ISO 17100 as a frame of reference for a content analysis of student…
Descriptors: Translation, Work Environment, Teaching Methods, Language Processing
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Hienonen, Ninja; Hotulainen, Risto; Jahnukainen, Markku – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This study reports on an investigation of the differences in results between students with special educational needs assigned to special classes or regular classes in lower secondary education. Cognitive competencies were measured using curricular Finnish and mathematics tasks, school achievement using grade point average (GPA), and learning…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Special Education, Special Needs Students, Comparative Analysis
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Loukomies, Anni; Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Pupils' interest has been one of the major concerns in science education research because it can be seen as a gateway to more personalised forms of interest and motivation. However, methods to investigate situational interest in science teaching and learning are not broadly examined. This study compares the pupils' observed situational interest…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Interests
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Kaakinen, Johanna K.; Hyona, Jukka – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
The present study examined how proofreading and reading-for-comprehension instructions influence eye movements during reading. Thirty-seven participants silently read sentences containing compound words as target words while their eye movements were being recorded. We manipulated word length and frequency to examine how task instructions influence…
Descriptors: Sentences, Proofreading, Semantics, Eye Movements
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Nummenmaa, Lauri; Hyona, Jukka; Calvo, Manuel G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
We compared the primacy of affective versus semantic categorization by using forced-choice saccadic and manual response tasks. Participants viewed paired emotional and neutral scenes involving humans or animals flashed rapidly in extrafoveal vision. Participants were instructed to categorize the targets by saccading toward the location occupied by…
Descriptors: Semantics, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli
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Kyttala, Minna – Educational Psychology, 2008
The first purpose of this study was to investigate whether the visuospatial working memory (VSWM) skills of 15-16-year-old pupils with difficulties in mathematics differ from those of their normally achieving peers. The goal was to broaden the view of the complex system of VSWM. A set of passive and active VSWM tasks was used. The study's second…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Memory
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Odlin, Terence; Jarvis, Scott – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2004
With a Finnish-speaking majority and a Swedish-speaking minority, Finland offers a striking contrast in the kinds of cross-linguistic influence that can occur in the acquisition of English in a multilingual setting. While much previous research has looked at the differences between Finnish and Swedish influences, our study compares Swedish…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries