Markku Niemivirta

Motivation, Learning, and Well-Being -Research Collective (MoLeWe)

The MoLeWe collective represents a group of researchers from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), University of Helsinki (UH), University of Turku (UTU), National Defence University (NDU), Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU), and University of Oulu (UO) collaborating in the fields of education and educational psychology. The MoLeWe site serves as our joint home base where you can find information on our research, including PhD projects, as well as our experiences in the academia. We will share our stories and thoughts in a blog, both in English and in Finnish.

Learning In Digitalized Society (DIGS)

Our multidisciplinary research community, Learning In Digitalized Society (DIGS), involves researchers and research groups from the Philosophical Faculty, the Faculty of Science and Forestry and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies. Our research covers learning pathways through the whole life span, and focuses on the special nature of learning and its support in the highly digitalized world. We explore the new learning opportunities and possibilities offered by the digitalized society, as well as the learning requirements and expectations set by digitalization.

Due to the delay in the update of our publication database, the Connect only lists papers until 2021. Hence, you will find the most recent published papers here. Preprints can be found here.

• Tuominen, H., Hirvonen, R., Juntunen, H., Viljaranta, J., & Niemivirta, M. (painossa). Tavoitteet ja huolet pandemian aikana: Perfektionistiset taipumukset opiskelustressin ja siitä selviämisen selittäjänä. Kasvatus.
• Tuominen, H., Pikkarainen, P., Hirvonen, R., Juntunen, H., Viljaranta, J., & Niemivirta, M. (2022/painossa). Yliopisto-opiskelijoiden motivaatioprofiilit koronapandemian aikana ja toiveet opetuksen toteuttamisesta jatkossa. Kasvatus, 53(5).
• Henriikka Juntunen, Heta Tuominen, Jaana Viljaranta, Riikka Hirvonen, Auli Toom & Markku Niemivirta (2022). Feeling exhausted and isolated? The connections between university students’ remote teaching and learning experiences, motivation, and psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Educational Psychology.
• Mononen, R., Niemivirta, M., Korhonen, J., Lindskog, M., & Tapola, A. (2022). Developmental relations between mathematics anxiety, symbolic numerical magnitude processing and arithmetic skills from first to second grade. Cognition and Emotion, 36(3), 452-472.
• Mononen, R., & Niemivirta, M. (2022). Patterns of symbolic numerical magnitude processing and working memory as predictors of early mathematics performance. European Journal of Psychology of Education.
• Mononen, R., Niemivirta, M., & Korhonen, J. (2022). Predicting mathematical learning difficulties status: The role of domain-specific and domain- general skills. International electronic journal of elementary education, 14(3), 335–352.
• Throndsen, T., Lindskog, M., Niemivirta, M., & Mononen, R. (2022). Does mathematics anxiety moderate the effect of problem difficulty on cognitive effort? Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

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