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Noona Kiuru; Dawn DeLay; Katja Tervahartiala; Juho Polet; Riikka Hirvonen – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background and Aims: Peer relationships during adolescence play an important role in shaping academic outcomes. The present study examined friend influences on emotions towards math, as well as the role of temperament in these influences. Sample: The sample consisted of 350 Finnish students (mean age 13.29 years; 64% girls) who were involved in…
Descriptors: Friendship, Peer Influence, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes
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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
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Susanna Toikka; Lasse Eronen; Päivi Atjonen; Sari Havu-Nuutinen – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examined the metacognitive knowledge of Finnish comprehensive school students and explored whether grade-based differences in metacognitive knowledge exist among 6th, 7th and 9th graders. Integrating qualitative (declarative, procedural, conditional) and contextual (person, task, strategy) frameworks, the research aims for a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Problem Solving, Instructional Program Divisions, Grade 6
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Tiina Luoma; Sonja Kosunen – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
In this article, we ask how students with a range of social class and ethnic backgrounds perceive their opportunities to participate in the classroom and influence their learning, and what perceptions teachers have of teaching and students' participation in a school with a diverse student body. The context of this study is a lower secondary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Metropolitan Areas
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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
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Jake McMullen; Antti Koskinen; Tomi Kärki; Antero Lindstedt; Saku Määttä; Hilma Halme; Erno Lehtinen; Minna M. Hannula-Sormunen; Kristian Kiili – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2024
Adaptive expertise is a highly sought after, but difficult to achieve, outcome of mathematics education. Many teaching methods appear to support the development of adaptive expertise only in a small proportion of students. Game-based learning environments may be useful for supporting adaptive expertise. Therefore, we carried out a…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Number Concepts, Knowledge Level, Intervention
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Tiina Luoma; Marja Peltola – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Finnish schools are famous for their egalitarian principles, but they face challenges related to pupils' equal opportunities and, more broadly, democratic schooling. In this article, we examine the lived consequences of a growing challenge, school segregation, using Basil Bernstein's concepts of inclusion and classification. Our analysis is based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Rights, Inclusion, Secondary School Students
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Sainio, Petra J.; Eklund, Kenneth M.; Pakarinen, Eija K.; Kiuru, Noona H. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
Student-teacher relationships are crucial for adolescents' adjustment in the school context. The aim of the present study was to examine the role of teacher closeness in academic emotions and achievement among adolescents with and without learning difficulties during the first year in lower secondary school. Students' learning difficulties (LDs)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Teacher Student Relationship
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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
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Elina Viro – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
The article focuses on study visits from the perspective of mathematical project work. Project work means a systematic organizing method of teaching that is based around a project. The research questions are the kinds of study visits students made, the meaning(s) of those visits, the mathematical content in the visits and how such study visits…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Course Content
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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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Tatiana, Shubina; Hanna, Järvenoja; Kristiina, Mänty; Jouni, Peltonen; Sanna, Järvelä – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study explored the situational interest and emotional valence of 13-year-old students (N = 94) participating in a five-session science course. The relationship between students' situational interest and emotional valence and their individual interest was also studied. During each session, students participated in a collaborative learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Cooperative Learning, Science Instruction
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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
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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
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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
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