Tarja Tuononen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6449164 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tarja Tuononen |
| NOMBRES | Tarja |
| APELLIDO | Tuononen |
| FIRMA | TUONONEN T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9168-4185 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Teaching profiles and their relationship to perceptions of student learning of generic skills in the Hungarian higher education context
Teachers’ approaches to teaching, which are understood as the interplay between their intentions in a given teaching situation and the strategies they employ, have been widely examined in higher education research. However, this concept has not been sufficiently studied in relation to teaching generic skills, despite universities increasingly recognising their importance. Addressing this gap in the present study, we examined higher education teac…
Educating agents of change
This study critically evaluates the implementation of sustainability competencies in the university‐wide curriculum reform at a Nordic research‐intensive multidisciplinary university. The focus is on assessing how sustainability competencies—especially the newly introduced systems thinking, strategic thinking and futures thinking—are integrated into the curricula of 33 Bachelor's and 63 Master's degree programmes. Employing a mixed‐methods approa…
From sustainability perception to action in higher education
In the face of global sustainability challenges, society expects higher education to produce talent of the future to solve current and future problems. Little research exists on sustainability perceptions of all personnel in higher education institutions and their capacity to promote sustainability transition. This study explores sustainability perceptions among the university’s entire personnel, including faculty and staff, and how they perceive…
A systematic review of empirical literature on the segregation of educational institutions and its consequences in Finland
While Finland has been considered a model for educational equity, the last decade has brought up concerns about educational segregation. This systematic literature review captures an overview of research on factors contributing to educational segregation and its consequences in Finland. A literature search of studies investigating various aspects of segregation in Finland and published both in English and Finnish was conducted, and altogether 40 …
University students’ experiences of fully online teaching and learning environment—differences among learning profiles
This mixed-method study explores university students’ experiences of fully online teaching–learning environments and their relations to students’ approaches to learning profiles. Altogether, 504 students from different faculties completed questionnaire measuring approaches to learning and responded to an open-ended question about their experiences with online teaching–learning environment. A mixed-method approach was chosen to provide a comprehen…
Exploring intersectional inequalities in students' sense of belonging in education across educational pathways and across educational contexts
Introduction The study investigated inequalities in the sense of belonging in education among students in primary, secondary and tertiary levels in various European, North American and Oceanian countries. Variation across different educational contexts was explored by examining example countries (Finland, Hungary and Ireland). An intersectional approach to inequalities was adopted; more specifically, an intersection between gender, migration and …
Generic skills in higher education – teachers’ conceptions, pedagogical practices and pedagogical training
Teachers’ conceptions of teaching play a key role in the pedagogical practices they apply in their teaching. Previous studies of conceptions of teaching generic skills have been mainly qualitative with small samples, and thus there is a need for a more extensive quantitative study. This study investigates the associations between higher education teachers’ conceptions of teaching generic skills, pedagogical practices, pedagogical training, and te…
A systematic-narrative review of performance-based assessments of critical thinking in higher education
Critical thinking encompasses a complex interplay of cognitive skills, knowledge, and dispositions. In this systematic-narrative review, we analyze performance-based assessments of critical thinking in higher education. The aim is to explore how prior peer-reviewed empirical studies conceptualize and assess critical thinking, the methods and frameworks employed, and the specific aspects measured. A total of 28 articles from 2013 to 2023 were incl…
Struggling for equal access and success
peer reviewed
Learning profiles and their relation to the experiences of learning generic skills at the end of the first year of university study
University students’ approaches to learning and generic skills have important consequences for studying and success in higher education. However, person-oriented research, which explores how students with different learning profiles evaluate their learning of individual generic skills, has not been the core interest of previous studies. This study investigates the learning profiles of university students ( N = 901) in two disciplines and their re…
Students’ work experience in relation to their career engagement and metacognitive awareness
Higher education students in Finland and all over the world are often engaged in a paid job alongside their studies. The purpose of the present study is to explore how humanities students’ work experience is related to their career engagement and metacognitive awareness. More precisely, the aim is to investigate how the nature and amount of work are associated with career engagement and metacognitive awareness. A total of 302 master’s students fi…
The impact of pedagogical and ICT training in teachers’ approaches to online teaching and use of digital tools
This study examines the relationship between teachers’ pedagogical and ICT training, their approaches to online teaching and the use of digital tools. The participants were 265, teachers from the large multi-disciplinary university in Finland. The data was collected in May–June 2020 during the early stages of COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that teachers used digital tools more for delivering information and less for activating students. Th…
Perceived interest in learning sustainability competencies among higher education students
Purpose This study aims to assess higher education students’ interest in learning sustainability competencies and their pro-ecological worldviews at a large research-intensive university in Finland to provide a background information for developing a sustainability science course. Design/methodology/approach In total, 797 students participated in the study. The data were collected through an online survey that measured students’ interest in learn…
What Factors of the Teaching and Learning Environment Support the Learning of Generic Skills? First-Year Students’ Perceptions in Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology
Future health professions need generic skills in their working lives, such as knowledge analysis, collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills. The teaching and learning environment is crucial in the development of generic skills when studying at university. The aim of this research was to examine students’ perceptions of learning generic skills during their first study year and how the teaching and learning environment related to thei…
Systematic Review of Learning Generic Skills in Higher Education—Enhancing and Impeding Factors
The research field on generic skills in higher education has expanded rapidly. In addition, the importance of generic skills has been highlighted both in educational policy discourses and in practice of higher education. The present study reviews theoretical, methodological, and empirical viewpoints on learning generic skills and synthesizes the empirical evidence about the factors that enhance and impede student learning of generic skills. Altog…
Covid-19 Accelerating Academic Teachers’ Digital Competence in Distance Teaching
This study examines, using a cross-sectional approach, the digital competence of academic teachers at a time when teaching shifted to digital distance learning at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers from different academic fields at a large multidisciplinary Finnish university (N = 265) responded to a questionnaire about the purposes for which they use digital tools in teaching, how they evaluated their competence at distance teaching du…
Autistic graduates
An unprecedented number of autistic people are completing university and they frequently face unemployment after graduation. However, research focusing on the forms of graduate capital and their employability is scarce. The focus of existing research has been on non-autistic, or neurotypical, graduates. The human, social, cultural, identity and psychological capital might be different for autistic graduates due to the characteristics of autism. U…
Towards a successful transition to work - which employability factors contribute to early career success
The transition from university to working life is a challenging phase for graduates. The focus in the present longitudinal study is on employability factors and their association with this transition and with early career success. The participants were 43 graduates who were interviewed at the time of their graduation and filled in a follow-up questionnaire three years later. The data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The results r…
The role of academic competences and learning processes in predicting Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis grades
Bachelor’s students already possess a considerable amount of academic competences. • Writing a thesis requires competences such as analysing information. • Students’ organising skills should be supported especially in the Bachelor phase. • The role of thesis grade as indicator of study success should be critically evaluated. Writing an academic thesis is an important and complex task and the thesis grade should reflect students’ academic competen…
Graduates’ evaluations of usefulness of university education, and early career success – a longitudinal study of the transition to working life
A successful transition from university to working life requires that graduates are able to employ their education and academic competences in real working-life contexts. Our previous research showed that graduates varied in how they were able to reflect on their competences at the time of graduation. The present longitudinal mixed-method study follows the same graduates and explores their evaluations of the usefulness of university education and…
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Graduates’ evaluations of usefulness of university education, and early career success – a longitudinal study of the transition to working life
A successful transition from university to working life requires that graduates are able to employ their education and academic competences in real working-life contexts. Our previous research showed that graduates varied in how they were able to reflect on their competences at the time of graduation. The present longitudinal mixed-method study follows the same graduates and explores their evaluations of the usefulness of university education and…
The role of academic competences and learning processes in predicting Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis grades
Bachelor’s students already possess a considerable amount of academic competences. • Writing a thesis requires competences such as analysing information. • Students’ organising skills should be supported especially in the Bachelor phase. • The role of thesis grade as indicator of study success should be critically evaluated. Writing an academic thesis is an important and complex task and the thesis grade should reflect students’ academic competen…
What Factors of the Teaching and Learning Environment Support the Learning of Generic Skills? First-Year Students’ Perceptions in Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology
Future health professions need generic skills in their working lives, such as knowledge analysis, collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills. The teaching and learning environment is crucial in the development of generic skills when studying at university. The aim of this research was to examine students’ perceptions of learning generic skills during their first study year and how the teaching and learning environment related to thei…
Systematic Review of Learning Generic Skills in Higher Education—Enhancing and Impeding Factors
The research field on generic skills in higher education has expanded rapidly. In addition, the importance of generic skills has been highlighted both in educational policy discourses and in practice of higher education. The present study reviews theoretical, methodological, and empirical viewpoints on learning generic skills and synthesizes the empirical evidence about the factors that enhance and impede student learning of generic skills. Altog…
Covid-19 Accelerating Academic Teachers’ Digital Competence in Distance Teaching
This study examines, using a cross-sectional approach, the digital competence of academic teachers at a time when teaching shifted to digital distance learning at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers from different academic fields at a large multidisciplinary Finnish university (N = 265) responded to a questionnaire about the purposes for which they use digital tools in teaching, how they evaluated their competence at distance teaching du…
Autistic graduates
An unprecedented number of autistic people are completing university and they frequently face unemployment after graduation. However, research focusing on the forms of graduate capital and their employability is scarce. The focus of existing research has been on non-autistic, or neurotypical, graduates. The human, social, cultural, identity and psychological capital might be different for autistic graduates due to the characteristics of autism. U…
Towards a successful transition to work - which employability factors contribute to early career success
The transition from university to working life is a challenging phase for graduates. The focus in the present longitudinal study is on employability factors and their association with this transition and with early career success. The participants were 43 graduates who were interviewed at the time of their graduation and filled in a follow-up questionnaire three years later. The data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The results r…
The impact of pedagogical and ICT training in teachers’ approaches to online teaching and use of digital tools
This study examines the relationship between teachers’ pedagogical and ICT training, their approaches to online teaching and the use of digital tools. The participants were 265, teachers from the large multi-disciplinary university in Finland. The data was collected in May–June 2020 during the early stages of COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that teachers used digital tools more for delivering information and less for activating students. Th…
Perceived interest in learning sustainability competencies among higher education students
Purpose This study aims to assess higher education students’ interest in learning sustainability competencies and their pro-ecological worldviews at a large research-intensive university in Finland to provide a background information for developing a sustainability science course. Design/methodology/approach In total, 797 students participated in the study. The data were collected through an online survey that measured students’ interest in learn…
Learning profiles and their relation to the experiences of learning generic skills at the end of the first year of university study
University students’ approaches to learning and generic skills have important consequences for studying and success in higher education. However, person-oriented research, which explores how students with different learning profiles evaluate their learning of individual generic skills, has not been the core interest of previous studies. This study investigates the learning profiles of university students ( N = 901) in two disciplines and their re…
Students’ work experience in relation to their career engagement and metacognitive awareness
Higher education students in Finland and all over the world are often engaged in a paid job alongside their studies. The purpose of the present study is to explore how humanities students’ work experience is related to their career engagement and metacognitive awareness. More precisely, the aim is to investigate how the nature and amount of work are associated with career engagement and metacognitive awareness. A total of 302 master’s students fi…
University students’ experiences of fully online teaching and learning environment—differences among learning profiles
This mixed-method study explores university students’ experiences of fully online teaching–learning environments and their relations to students’ approaches to learning profiles. Altogether, 504 students from different faculties completed questionnaire measuring approaches to learning and responded to an open-ended question about their experiences with online teaching–learning environment. A mixed-method approach was chosen to provide a comprehen…
Exploring intersectional inequalities in students' sense of belonging in education across educational pathways and across educational contexts
Introduction The study investigated inequalities in the sense of belonging in education among students in primary, secondary and tertiary levels in various European, North American and Oceanian countries. Variation across different educational contexts was explored by examining example countries (Finland, Hungary and Ireland). An intersectional approach to inequalities was adopted; more specifically, an intersection between gender, migration and …
Generic skills in higher education – teachers’ conceptions, pedagogical practices and pedagogical training
Teachers’ conceptions of teaching play a key role in the pedagogical practices they apply in their teaching. Previous studies of conceptions of teaching generic skills have been mainly qualitative with small samples, and thus there is a need for a more extensive quantitative study. This study investigates the associations between higher education teachers’ conceptions of teaching generic skills, pedagogical practices, pedagogical training, and te…
A systematic-narrative review of performance-based assessments of critical thinking in higher education
Critical thinking encompasses a complex interplay of cognitive skills, knowledge, and dispositions. In this systematic-narrative review, we analyze performance-based assessments of critical thinking in higher education. The aim is to explore how prior peer-reviewed empirical studies conceptualize and assess critical thinking, the methods and frameworks employed, and the specific aspects measured. A total of 28 articles from 2013 to 2023 were incl…
Struggling for equal access and success
peer reviewed
Teaching profiles and their relationship to perceptions of student learning of generic skills in the Hungarian higher education context
Teachers’ approaches to teaching, which are understood as the interplay between their intentions in a given teaching situation and the strategies they employ, have been widely examined in higher education research. However, this concept has not been sufficiently studied in relation to teaching generic skills, despite universities increasingly recognising their importance. Addressing this gap in the present study, we examined higher education teac…
Educating agents of change
This study critically evaluates the implementation of sustainability competencies in the university‐wide curriculum reform at a Nordic research‐intensive multidisciplinary university. The focus is on assessing how sustainability competencies—especially the newly introduced systems thinking, strategic thinking and futures thinking—are integrated into the curricula of 33 Bachelor's and 63 Master's degree programmes. Employing a mixed‐methods approa…
From sustainability perception to action in higher education
In the face of global sustainability challenges, society expects higher education to produce talent of the future to solve current and future problems. Little research exists on sustainability perceptions of all personnel in higher education institutions and their capacity to promote sustainability transition. This study explores sustainability perceptions among the university’s entire personnel, including faculty and staff, and how they perceive…
A systematic review of empirical literature on the segregation of educational institutions and its consequences in Finland
While Finland has been considered a model for educational equity, the last decade has brought up concerns about educational segregation. This systematic literature review captures an overview of research on factors contributing to educational segregation and its consequences in Finland. A literature search of studies investigating various aspects of segregation in Finland and published both in English and Finnish was conducted, and altogether 40 …
Psychology (15 obras) · Mathematics education (10 obras) · Higher Education and Employability (8 obras) · Pedagogy (7 obras) · Teaching method (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Higher education (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras)