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Widlund, Anna; Tuominen, Heta; Korhonen, Johan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Transitioning into adolescence while simultaneously facing greater academic demands as the level of education increases often entails both academic challenges and general declines in students' school-related well-being. Still, however, relatively little is known about the causal relationship between students' academic well-being (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Student Welfare, Learner Engagement, Burnout, Mathematics Achievement
Virtanen, Tuomo; Pelkonen, Jenni; Kiuru, Noona – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This longitudinal study of 1,066 Finnish students examined bidirectional reciprocal relationships between changes in perceived supportive school climate and changes in self-reported truancy from the last year of primary school (Grade 6) to the last year of lower secondary school (Grade 9). The results of the random intercept cross-lagged panel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Truancy, Correlation
Minna Kyttälä; Hanna-Maija Sinkkonen; Raisa Harju-Autti – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study aims at investigating Finnish lower secondary grade students' (N = 469) emotional school well-being, social inclusion, and academic self-concept with regard to grade level, linguistic background, and needs for support. For collecting the data, a Finnish translation of the Perceptions of Inclusion Questionnaire for students was used. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Inclusion
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
Alamettälä, Tuulikki; Sormunen, Eero – Information and Learning Sciences, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-term development of online research skills among lower secondary school students and how various factors such as teaching interventions and students' self-efficacy, attitudes, information and communication technology (ICT) activity and gender are associated with development.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Research Skills, Online Searching, Intervention
Ketonen, Laura; Nieminen, Pasi; Hähkiöniemi, Markus – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
A growing body of research has recognized the importance of students' having active roles in feedback processes. Feedback literacy refers to students' understandings of and participation in feedback processes, and research on students' feedback literacy has so far focused on higher education; secondary schools have not received attention. This…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Intervention, Formative Evaluation
Tiina Korhonen; Noora Laakso; Aino Seitamaa; Visajaani Salonen; Netta Tiippana; Jari Lavonen; Kai Hakkarainen – Cogent Education, 2024
Digital fluency is a central 21st-century competence. Schools are responsible for ensuring that all students cultivate sophisticated sociodigital competences and mindsets needed for studying and collaborating through and around technology and overcoming digital challenges encountered. Although some schools have successfully integrated digital…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Student Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ulmanen, Sanna; Soini, Tiina; Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Effective social support from teachers, peers, and guardians is a key to promoting students' study wellbeing at school. However, little longitudinal research has examined the implications of distinctive combinations of social support for students' study wellbeing. To address this limitation, we measured multiple dimensions of school-related social…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Profiles, Well Being, Teacher Student Relationship
Vuorinen, Kaisa; Hietajärvi, Lauri; Uusitalo, Lotta – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Previous research has shown that there is a link between usage of strengths and various positive outcomes, such as finding meaning and happiness in life. In our present study, we aimed to find out how usage of strengths is connected to general happiness with school-related factors as mediating variables. 418 Finnish students aged 10-16 filled a…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Psychological Patterns, Correlation, Models
D'Urso, Giulio; Juvonen, Jaana; Salmivalli, Christina – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The current study examines whether peer victimization experienced in early adolescence is associated with compromised social functioning 14 years later in young adulthood. The sample involved 1533 young adults (65.1% female, M[subscript age] = 27.06) who had participated in a large research project as middle school students (7th and 8th graders,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Peer Relationship, Victims
Sommarström, Kaarina; Oikkonen, Elena; Pihkala, Timo – Education Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the utilization of the opportunities offered by teacher and school autonomy in entrepreneurship education with companies involved. The research question was: How do schools and teachers use their autonomy in the implementation of entrepreneurship education? This research question was complemented by two…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Curriculum Implementation, National Curriculum
Minttu Vänttinen; Leila Kääntä – Classroom Discourse, 2024
This study investigates the multimodal construction of blame attributions in peer interaction during digital tasks in English as a Foreign Language classrooms. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis (CA), we examine how the force of blamings is manifested in and through the variety of resources used, and the role of digital devices in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 4
Lahtero, Tapio Juhani; Ahtiainen, Raisa Susanna; Lång, Niina – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
This study looks at the views of Finnish comprehensive school principals on distributed leadership and presents discussion on the leadership training required by principals and looks at it in relation to the views of principals. In Finland the qualification requirements for principals are based on their experience as teachers, and studies in…
Descriptors: Principals, Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership
Zi, Yu – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2021
This study sets two main objectives to address this research gap in CLIL materials design: to identify and to evaluate teachers' approaches to text modification. The study focuses on four secondary teachers who teach non-language subjects to grades 7-9 in Finland, in English. The qualitative data consist of interviews and teaching materials…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Grade 7, Grade 8
Salmenkivi, Eero; Kasa, Tuija; Putkonen, Niina; Kallioniemi, Arto – Human Rights Education Review, 2022
In this article we examine the profiling of human rights and children's rights in religious education (RE) and its secular alternative in Finland. We use the term 'worldview education' to describe the combination of these subjects. We analyse what kinds of human rights and ethical issues are raised in Finnish worldview education. One specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Childrens Rights, Religious Education