Blar i UiS Brage på forfatter "Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina"
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Enhancing upper secondary students’ engagement and learning through the INTERACT online, video-based teacher coaching intervention: Protocol for a mixed-methods cluster randomized controlled trial and process evaluation
Ertesvåg, Sigrun K.; Vaaland, Grete Sørensen; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05)This protocol outlines a mixed-methods cluster randomized controlled trial (CRCT) in upper secondary schools that will investigate how video-based online coaching can support teachers’ competences in teacher-student ... -
Literacy instruction in first grade: classroom-level associations between reading skills and literacy instruction activities
Ruotsalainen, Jenni; Pakarinen, Eija; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02)Background Adapting instruction to individual students' needs is known to be effective, but there is a lack of evidence whether students' reading skills are associated with literacy instruction activities at classroom-level. ... -
Longitudinal associations between poor reading skills, bullying and victimization across the transition from elementary to middle school
Turunen, Tiina; Poskiparta, Elisa; Salmivalli, Christina; Niemi, Pekka; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)Students with poor reading skills and reading difficulties (RDs) are at elevated risk for bullying involvement in elementary school, but it is not known whether they are at risk also later in adolescence. This study ... -
Longitudinal Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Parental Difficulties on Reading and Math Development Across Grades 1–9
Khanolainen, Daria; Psyridou, Maria; Silinskas, Gintautas; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Niemi, Pekka (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10)This study focuses on parental reading and mathematical difficulties, the home literacy environment, and the home numeracy environment as well as their predictive role in Finnish children’s reading and mathematical development ... -
Parental Trust in Teachers and Children’s Interest in Reading and Math: A Longitudinal Study
Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Pakarinen, Eija Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)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 ... -
Patterns of Teachers’ Occupational Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Relations to Experiences of Exhaustion, Recovery, and Interactional Styles of Teaching
Pöysä, Sanni; Pakarinen, Eija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)This study examined profiles of teachers’ occupational well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data were collected from 279 Finnish primary school teachers during the spring of 2020. Four groups of teachers were ... -
The Predictors of Literacy Skills among Monolingual and Bilingual Finnish–Swedish Children During First Grade
Vataja, Pia; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Aro, Mikko; Westerholm, Jari; Risberg, Ann-Katrine; Salmi, Paula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)The aim of the study was to examine which predictor variables are related to literacy skills among monolingual Swedish (n = 269) and bilingual Finnish–Swedish (n = 229) children at the first grade in the Swedish-speaking ... -
Profiles of Work Engagement and Work-Related Effort and Reward Among Teachers: Associations to Occupational Well-Being and Leader–Follower Relationship During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Pöysä, Sanni; Pakarinen, Eija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-12)This study examined teachers’ occupational well-being by identifying profiles based on teachers’ self-ratings of work engagement as well as work-related effort and reward. It also did so by examining whether the identified ... -
Promotion of school engagement through dialogic teaching practices in the context of a teacher professional development programme
Vasalampi, Kati; Metsäpelto, Riitta-Leena; Salminen, Jenni; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Mäensivu, Marja; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)This study was conducted in the context of a teacher professional development programme that aimed to improve dialogic teaching in the classroom, and it describes the programme and examines the change in teachers' dialogic ... -
Screening for slow reading acquisition in Norway and Finland – a quest for context specific predictors
Solheim, Oddny Judith; Torppa, Minna; Uppstad, Per Henning; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Early identification of children at risk of developing reading difficulties is crucial for effective interventions. While orthographies and educational contexts differ, predictors included in early at-risk screening tend ... -
Students' Positive Expectations and Concerns Prior to the School Transition to Lower Secondary School
Eskelä-Haapanen, Sirpa; Vasalampi, Kati; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07)This mixed-method study examines students' expectations and concerns before transitioning from primary to lower secondary school and the role of students' school-related wellbeing and self-esteem in their concerns. Students ... -
Teacher emotional support in relation to social competence in preschool classrooms
Pakarinen, Eija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; von Suchodoletz, Antje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07)The present study aimed to investigate the associations between teachers’ observed emotional support and social competence among Finnish pre-schoolers (6-year-olds). The quality of emotional support was observed using the ... -
Teachers’ occupational stress and perceived support in Finland and Estonia during the COVID-19 lockdown
Pöysä, Sanni; Jõgi, Anna-Liisa; Tammets, Kairit; Eisenschmidt, Eve; Pakarinen, Eija Kristiina; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study examined teachers’ experiences of occupational stress in Finland and Estonia during the COVID-19 lockdown, and whether their stress would be related to their experiences of support from colleagues and leaders. ... -
Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy and Sense of Inadequacy across Grade 1: Bidirectional Associations and Related Factors
Rokala, Ville; Pakarinen, Eija Kristiina; Eskelä-Haapanen, Sirpa; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The present study investigated bidirectional associations between teachers’ sense of inadequacy and self-efficacy and factors related to them across one academic year. Teachers (N = 52) rated their sense of inadequacy and ... -
Teachers’ situational physiological stress and affect
Jõgi, Anna-Liisa; Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Pakarinen, Eija Kristiina; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Since teaching is a demanding and stressful profession, the study of teachers’ physiological stress in the classroom setting is an emerging field. In cross-sectional studies self-reported stress and affect are related, but ... -
Teaching practices mediating the effect of teachers’ psychological stress, and not physiological on their visual focus of attention
Chaudhuri, Saswati; Jõgi, Anna-Liisa; Pakarinen, Eija Kristiina; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between teachers’ (N = 53) physiological and psychological stress and their visual focus of attention as well as the mediating effect of teaching practices ... -
Work-related stress of elementary school principals in Finland: Coping strategies and support
Elomaa, Mailis; Eskelä-Haapanen, Sirpa; Pakarinen, Eija Kristiina; Halttunen, Leena; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)The present study aimed to investigate elementary school principals’ self-reported causes of work-related stress, their coping strategies to deal with stress and the support they need for their leadership. Seventy-six ...