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Heidi Hyytinen; Kari Nissinen; Katri Kleemola; Jani Ursin; Auli Toom – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Critical thinking is a multifaceted construct involving a set of skills and affective dispositions together with self-regulation. The aim of this study was to explore how self-regulation and effort in test-taking contribute to undergraduate students' performance in critical thinking assessment. The data were collected in 18 higher education…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Self Management, Performance Based Assessment, Undergraduate Students
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Helena Kantanen; Kati Kasanen; Susanna Kohonen; Vesa Paajanen; Sanni Pirttilä; Piia Siitonen – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This qualitative study assesses the enablers of the work of a novel, self-managing digital pedagogy peer support team in a Finnish higher education institution. Design/methodology/approach: This study employs a qualitative methodology with in-depth interviews of five digital pedagogy facilitators. The data collected are analyzed with the…
Descriptors: Self Management, Peer Teaching, Web Based Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Mari Murtonen; Tahani Z. Aldahdouh; Henna Vilppu; Nguyen Thi Thu Trang; Jere Riekkinen; Jan D. Vermunt – Teacher Development, 2024
This study aimed to build an integrative model of the interrelations between pedagogical training, teacher regulation skills, learning patterns and student-centred teaching approach. Self-reported questionnaire data were collected from 378 higher education teachers and analysed using structural equation modelling. The findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education
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Sabzalieva, Emma; Roser, Jaime; Mutize, Takudzwa – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
Self-regulation in the governance of higher education systems is often assumed to improve institutional performance, accountability, and responsiveness. Although studies of higher education governance have addressed the extent of self-regulation across national systems, there has been less investigation of the links between self-regulation and…
Descriptors: Self Management, Governance, Higher Education, Educational Quality
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Katri-Helena Rautiainen; Mikko Vesisenaho – Visions of Research in Music Education, 2022
When studying music, skills are often practiced with a teacher, face-to-face, in a classroom. What are the experiences of classroom teacher trainees when music teaching becomes asynchronous, i.e., an individually completed online course? This question, among other things, was explored at a Finnish University's Teacher Education Department in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Online Courses, COVID-19
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Faisal Channa; Muhterem Dindar; Andy Nguyen; Rohit Mishra – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study explored the sequential interplay between challenges and regulatory processes in high- and low-performing collaborative groups. 66 students from a Finnish higher education institution participated in a collaborative task in groups of three. Approximately 34 h of video data were coded. The sequential analysis revealed that both groups…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, High Achievement, Low Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Hautakangas, Merja; Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Uusitalo, Lotta – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Self-regulation skills are fundamental for a child's development and learning. Yet, problems in self-regulation are common and several programmes with varying results have been created to overcome them. In this article, we have reported on a controlled ten-week intervention study. Twenty-eight children aged 4-7 years and with poor self-regulation…
Descriptors: Child Development, Self Management, Skill Development, Early Childhood Education
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Kosonen, Toni; Annala, Johanna; Penttinen, Leena; Mäkinen, Marita – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This article explores university students' approaches to and positions with regard to making the most of their study time. The article discusses how various normative societal expectations around students' use and management of time feature in their talk about how they organise their everyday lives. The research is based on thematic interviews (n…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Time Management, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
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Pyhältö, Kirsi; Pietarinen, Janne; Haverinen, Kaisa; Tikkanen, Lotta; Soini, Tiina – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
Teacher burnout has been identified as a significant occupational hazard. However, our understanding about individual variations in burnout risk among in-service teachers is still less than sufficient. This study explored socio-contextual burnout risk profiles and their association with the reported use of proactive strategies among in-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Burnout, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Miihkinen, Antti – Accounting Education, 2023
This study examines business students' learning and assessment under remote teachings during the COVID-19 pandemic in a well-established Finnish university. A survey method is used to collect information on 336 business students including 42 accounting students. As indicated by students' responses, a majority of the students succeeded in assessing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Accounting, College Students
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Lemmetty, Soila – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
The importance of "self-directed learning" (SDL) in a business environment has been highlighted as a way to increase an organisation's competitiveness and innovativeness. While organisations increasingly require SDL from employees, less attention is paid to the situations and frames enabling it. This study examines "self-directed…
Descriptors: Employees, Workplace Learning, Personal Autonomy, Self Management
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Ikävalko, Minna; Sointu, Erkko; Lambert, Matthew C.; Viljaranta, Jaana – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
Students' self-perceptions are a foundation for educational and psychosocial development. In order to investigate self-perceptions, we need to recognise the preconceptions (e.g. doubts and confidence) students hold about themselves. In this study, we examined 10-16-year-old students' (N=599) self-perceptions from the viewpoints of the sources of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Management, Age Differences, Elementary School Students
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Salminen, Jenni; Guedes, Carolina; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Pakarinen, Eija; Cadima, Joana – Infant and Child Development, 2021
This study examines the association between teacher--child interaction quality and children's self-regulation in Finnish and Portuguese toddler classrooms. The participants included 230 Finnish (M = 29; SD = 3 months) and 283 Portuguese M = 30, SD = 4 months) toddlers and their teachers (n = 43 Finland; n = 29 Portugal). The children's behavioural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
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Ilonen, Sanna – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
This paper focuses on entrepreneurship educators as creators of an entrepreneurial learning environment in entrepreneurship education. Entrepreneurship education research has concentrated mainly on the subjects of education (i.e. the students) or on the content of learning, leaving individuals with a critical role in entrepreneurship education --…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Hyytinen, Heidi; Toom, Auli – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: Performance assessment development is a three-phase process of (1) defining the construct of what is to be measured, (2) constructing the test items, task, and scoring criteria, and (3) collecting empirical evidence on extent to which they tap into the intended construct. Aims: In the light of the three-phase process, this pilot study…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Test Construction
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