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Direct linkVirinkoski, Riitta; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Eklund, Kenneth; Aro, Mikko – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study investigated special educational needs (SEN) teachers' (n = 29) assessment practices and the accuracy of their ratings of the students' (M age = 12.75 years, n = 55) skill levels in reading fluency and reading comprehension. Teachers rated their sixth grade students' fluency and comprehension on a three-point scale, and the students…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Identification, Reading Difficulties, Grade 6
Kanniainen, Laura; Kiili, Carita; Tolvanen, Asko; Utriainen, Jukka; Aro, Mikko; Leu, Donald J.; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
This study identified online research and comprehension (ORC) performance profiles of 436 sixth-grade students (206 girls) aged 12-13 years. We included learner groups with different learning-related difficulties and explored how students' reading habits were represented in various performance profiles. First, students' ORC performance was…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Females, Information Seeking
Papadopoulos, Timothy C.; Csépe, Valéria; Aro, Mikko; Caravolas, Marketa; Diakidoy, Irene-Anna; Olive, Thierry – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
Research on literacy has become universal and is essential for researchers of various disciplines, educators, and psychologists. For this article, we examined the most important methodological challenges that arise when conducting literacy research across languages, some of which have long been acknowledged in the relevant literature.…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Research, Research Methodology, Reading Fluency
Jakobson, Kristi; Soodla, Piret; Aro, Mikko – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The study investigated teachers' knowledge of reading comprehension processes and reading comprehension instruction. The study was carried out among teachers (N = 65) in Estonia. The content analysis classified qualitative data from semi-structured interviews as quantitative data. The results showed that teachers' content knowledge about reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Special Education Teachers
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
Salihu, Linda; Aro, Mikko; Räsänen, Pekka – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
The aim of this study is to examine the mathematics skills of fourth-grade children from Kosovo in relation to their background characteristics. Seventy-six children, out of 233 tested, who were identified with learning difficulties in mathematics were further assessed during fifth and sixth grades, in mathematics skills and reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Student Characteristics
