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Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Pakarinen, Eija – European Education, 2021
This study investigated cross-lagged associations between parental trust in a child's teacher and children's academic interest across Grades 1-4 in primary school. Parents rated trust in their child's teacher, and 576 children reported their interest in reading and math at each grade. The results showed that high parental trust in a child's…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Parent School Relationship, Parents, Reading Interests
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Stefan Johansson; Kajsa Yang Hansen; Cecilia Thorsen – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
In studies of academic resilience, the concept is typically operationalized by pre-defined cutoff values of students' achievement level and their social background. A threat to the validity of such arbitrary operationalizations is that students around the cutoff values may be misclassified. The main objective of the current study is to apply a…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Disadvantaged Youth
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Päivinen, Maria; Eklund, Kenneth; Hirvonen, Riikka; Ahonen, Timo; Kiuru, Noona – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The aim of this study was to examine the situational associations of reading-related task values and efficacy beliefs with achievement emotions, and whether these associations are moderated by reading difficulties (RD). The sample comprised 128 Finnish sixth-grade students (66 with no reading difficulties [No RD], 31 with mild reading difficulties…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Reading Achievement
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Stefan Johansson; Kajsa Yang Hansen; Cecilia Thorsen – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
Academic resilience is difficult to define in an international setting, since economic levels and achievement standards vary across countries and over time. In studies of academic resilience, the concept is typically operationalized using pre-defined cut-offs of achievement and social background. The main objective of the current study is to apply…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Foreign Countries
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Late, Elina – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2018
Introduction: This paper reports empirical results of the survey focusing on reading practices in state research institutes. State research institutes are, along with universities, important actors in national innovation systems in producing especially applied research. Majority of earlier studies on scholarly communication have focused on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Projects, State Programs, Reading Habits
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Viljaranta, Jaana; Kiuru, Noona; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Silinskas, Gintautas; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Educational Psychology, 2017
The majority of previous research on academic skills, self-concept of ability and interest has deployed the variable-oriented approach and focused on self-concept, or ability, or interest only. This study examined the patterns and dynamics of pattern change in Finnish children's word reading skill, self-concept of ability and interest from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Self Concept, Reading Ability