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Ulas Ustun – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study investigates how self-efficacy and motivation predict students' science literacy and career expectations above and beyond their socioeconomic status. A structural equation model built on self-determination theory and self-efficacy was examined using PISA 2015 data from Finland and Japan. The study sample is 5882 and 6647 15-year-old…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10
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
Hanne M. Kivimäki; Timo P. Ståhl; Katja M. Joronen; Arja H. Rimpelä – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
Engaging parents in school health examinations can promote adolescents' well-being. We examined parents' participation in universal school health examinations in Finland reported by adolescents in school surveys (14 to 16-year-olds, N = 58,232). Further we studied variation between service providers and schools, and student and school-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Physical Examinations, Adolescents
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
Peets, Kätlin; Hodges, Ernest Van Every – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Youth with greater levels of narcissism face a wide array of difficulties in interactions with others. However, there exists a curious lack of research on their close relationships, such as friendships. In this study, we examined associations between narcissism and friendship features over time. Participants were 261 eighth and ninth graders (112…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Interpersonal Relationship, Friendship
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
Brezicha, Kristina F.; Leroux, Audrey J. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2023
Students' positive experiences in schools positively predicts students' political trust. However, little research has examined how individual students' feelings of exclusion at their schools may relate to students' political trust. Moreover, how does an overall sense of exclusion from the school relate to political trust apart from individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Grade 9
Kimanen, Anuleena – Journal of Religious Education, 2022
In the field of education concerning cultural diversity it has been recognized as vital to address justice in social structures. Although justifications for religious education in non-confessional contexts are heavily based on religious diversity, their advocates have paid little attention to justice and power relations. In this article, I analyse…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Empathy, Religious Education, Secondary School Students
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
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
Juva, Ina; Holm, Gunilla; Dovemark, Marianne – Ethnography and Education, 2020
Bullying has been conceptualised as a phenomenon that focuses mainly on individuals and individual behaviour. We seek to broaden the discussion on bullying by describing and defining how teachers participate in and/or enable bullying, and to thus expand the notion of bullying as individual behaviour to include actors, norms and processes. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Teacher Role, High School Teachers
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
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