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List of works by Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen

A Validation Study of Classroom Assessment Scoring System–Secondary in the Finnish School Context

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A Validation of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in Finnish Kindergartens

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A Validation of the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Measure in Finnish and Estonian Kindergartens

A child’s psychological adjustment impacts teachers’ instructional support and affective response

A teacher-report measure of children's task-avoidant behavior: A validation study of the Behavioral Strategy Rating Scale

article published in 2011

Adolescents' engagement profiles and their association with academic performance and situational engagement

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Assessment conceptions of Finnish pre-service teachers

scientific article published on 31 March 2022

Assessment of students' situation-specific classroom engagement by an InSitu Instrument

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Associations Among Teacher–Child Interactions, Teacher Curriculum Emphases, and Reading Skills in Grade 1

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Associations Between Reading Skills, Interest in Reading, and Teaching Practices in First Grade

Changes in achievement values from primary to lower secondary school among students with and without externalizing problems

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Changes in students' psychological well-being during transition from primary school to lower secondary school: A person-centered approach

article by Tuomo Virtanen et al published January 2019 in Learning and Individual Differences

Child-centered versus teacher-directed teaching practices: Associations with the development of academic skills in the first grade at school

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Children evoke similar affective and instructional responses from their teachers and mothers

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Children’s beliefs concerning school transition

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Children’s poor academic performance evokes parental homework assistance—but does it help?

article by Gintautas Silinskas et al published 4 September 2012 in International Journal of Behavioral Development

Classroom effect on primary school students’ self-concept in literacy and mathematics

Classroom interaction and literacy activities in kindergarten: Longitudinal links to Grade 1 readers at risk and not at risk of reading difficulties

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Classroom organization and teacher stress predict learning motivation in kindergarten children

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Comorbid Fluency Difficulties in Reading and Math: Longitudinal Stability Across Early Grades

Computer-assisted remedial reading intervention for school beginners at risk for reading disability.

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Counting and rapid naming predict the fluency of arithmetic and reading skills

Covariation between reading and arithmetic skills from Grade 1 to Grade 7

Cross-Lagged Associations Between Problem Behaviors and Teacher-Student Relationships in Early Adolescence

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Cross-lagged relations between kindergarten teachers’ causal attributions, and children’s interest value and performance in mathematics

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Cross-lagged relations between math-related interest, performance goals and skills in groups of children with different general abilities

Cross-lagged relations between task motivation and performance in arithmetic and literacy in kindergarten

Cross‐lagged associations between kindergarten teachers' causal attributions and children's task motivation and performance in reading

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Development of Numeracy and Literacy Skills in Early Childhood—A Longitudinal Study on the Roles of Home Environment and Familial Risk for Reading and Math Difficulties

scientific article published on 28 October 2021

Development of Participation in and Identification With School: Associations With Truancy

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Development of pre-academic skills and motivation in kindergarten: a subgroup analysis between classroom quality profiles

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Development of reading and arithmetic skills across Grades 1 to 4 in two groups of children receiving part-time special education

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Development of silent reading fluency and reading comprehension across grades 1 to 9: unidirectional or bidirectional effects between the two skills?

scientific article published on 25 October 2022

Developmental Dynamics of Math Performance From Preschool to Grade 2

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Developmental Dynamics of Phonemic Awareness and Reading Performance During the First Year of Primary School

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Developmental dynamics between children’s externalizing problems, task-avoidant behavior, and academic performance in early school years: A 4-year follow-up

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Developmental dynamics of achievement strategies, reading performance, and parental beliefs

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Developmental profiles of reading fluency and reading comprehension from grades 1 to 9 and their early identification

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Developmental profiles of task-avoidant behaviour and reading skills in Grades 1 and 2

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Dialogical patterns of interaction in pre-school classrooms

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Dialogue through the eyes: Exploring teachers’ focus of attention during educational dialogue

Directors' stress in day care centers: related factors and coping strategies

Do teachers’ professional vision and teaching experience always go hand in hand? Examining knowledge-based reasoning of Finnish Grade 1 teachers

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Does early reading instruction promote the rate of acquisition? A comparison of two transparent orthographies

Early Antecedents of School Burnout in Upper Secondary Education: A Five-year Longitudinal Study

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Early Cognitive Precursors of Children's Mathematics Learning Disability and Persistent Low Achievement: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study

scientific article published on 12 July 2018

Early Language and Literacy Development in the Finnish Context

Early cognitive profiles predicting reading and arithmetic skills in grades 1 and 7

Early prediction of reading trajectories of children with and without reading instruction in kindergarten: a comparison study of Estonia and Finland

Educational dialogue among teachers experiencing different levels of self-efficacy

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Educational dialogue of preschool teachers experiencing different levels of stress

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Elementary school teachers adapt their instructional support according to students’ academic skills

Erratum to: Maternal parenting styles, homework help, and children’s literacy development in language minority and Finnish-speaking families

scientific article published on 04 October 2017

Exploring agency and entrainment in joint music-making through the reported experiences of students and teachers

scientific article published in 2022

Externalizing behavior problems and interest in reading as predictors of later reading skills and educational aspirations

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Family- and classroom-related factors and mother–kindergarten teacher trust in Estonia and Finland

article by Eve Kikas et al published 13 March 2014 in Educational Psychology

Finnish and UK English pre-teen children's text message language and its relationship with their literacy skills

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Home Literacy Activities and Children's Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Identifying Finnish Children’s Impulsivity Trajectories From Kindergarten to Grade 4: Associations With Academic and Socioemotional Development

In pursuit of beginning teachers’ competence in promoting reading motivation: A mixed-methods study into the impact of a continuing professional development program

Instructional support predicts children's task avoidance in kindergarten

Intra-individual dynamics of lesson-specific engagement: Lagged and cross-lagged effects from one lesson to the next

scientific article published on 25 December 2020

Investigating Bidirectional Links Between the Quality of Teacher-Child Relationships and Children's Interest and Pre-Academic Skills in Literacy and Math

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

Investigating applicability of ratings of indicators of the CLASS Pre-K instrument

scientific article published on 29 September 2022

Investigating quality indicators of early childhood education programs in Kosovo, Ukraine and Finland

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Kindergarten pre-reading skills predict Grade 9 reading comprehension (PISA Reading) but fail to explain gender difference

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Kindergarten teachers adjust their teaching practices in accordance with children’s academic pre‐skills

Knowing, applying, and reasoning about arithmetic: Roles of domain-general and numerical skills in multiple domains of arithmetic learning

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Knowledge-building patterns in educational dialogue

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Leisure Reading (But Not Any Kind) and Reading Comprehension Support Each Other-A Longitudinal Study Across Grades 1 and 9

scientific article published on 30 March 2019

Linguistic and spatial skills predict early arithmetic development via counting sequence knowledge.

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

Literacy instruction activities and their associations with first graders’ reading performance in two transparent orthographies

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Long-Term Intervention Effects of Spelling Development for Children With Compromised Preliteracy Skills

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Longitudinal Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Parental Difficulties on Reading and Math Development Across Grades 1-9

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Longitudinal Stability of Reading Difficulties: Examining the Effects of Measurement Error, Cut-Offs, and Buffer Zones in Identification

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Longitudinal associations between poor reading skills, bullying and victimization across the transition from elementary to middle school

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Longitudinal associations between teacher-child interactions and academic skills in elementary school

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Longitudinal associations of first-grade teaching with reading in early primary school

Maternal Affection Moderates the Associations Between Parenting Stress and Early Adolescents’ Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior

Maternal homework approach and adolescents’ academic skills: The mediating role of task values

scientific article published on 18 October 2022

Maternal homework assistance and children's task-persistent behavior in elementary school

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Maternal literacy teaching, causal attributions and children’s literacy skills in Finnish-speaking and language minority families

Maternal parenting styles, homework help, and children’s literacy development in language minority and Finnish-speaking families

article by Riitta Sikiö et al published 21 March 2017 in European Journal of Psychology of Education

Maternal teaching of reading and children's reading skills in Grade 1: Patterns and predictors of positive and negative associations

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Mathematical performance predicts progress in reading comprehension among 7-year olds

Mothers’ reading-related activities at home and learning to read during kindergarten

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Mothers’ trust toward teachers in relation to teaching practices

article by Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen et al published January 2013 in Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Multi-source Assessment of Social Competence Scale--Finnish Version

Mutual Trust between Kindergarten Teachers and Mothers and its Associations with Family Characteristics in Estonia and Finland

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Observed Classroom Quality Profiles of Kindergarten Classrooms in Finland

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Off on the wrong foot: Task avoidance at the outset of primary school anticipates academic difficulties and declining peer acceptance

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Parental Teaching of Reading and Spelling Across the Transition From Kindergarten to Grade 1

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Parental ability attributions regarding children's academic performance: Person-oriented approach on longitudinal data

Patterns of Teachers’ Occupational Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Relations to Experiences of Exhaustion, Recovery, and Interactional Styles of Teaching

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Patterns of dialogic teaching in kindergarten classrooms of Finland and the United Arab Emirates

Patterns of word reading skill, interest and self-concept of ability

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Peer selection and influence on children’s reading skills in early primary grades: a social network approach

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Positive Teacher Affect for the Student Measure

Positive teacher and peer relations combine to predict primary school students' academic skill development

scientific article published on 9 March 2015

Predicting word-level reading fluency outcomes in three contrastive groups: Remedial and computer-assisted remedial reading intervention, and mainstream instruction

Professional vision of Grade 1 teachers experiencing different levels of work-related stress

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Profiles of teaching practices and reading skills at the first and third grade in Finland and Estonia

Promotion of school engagement through dialogic teaching practices in the context of a teacher professional development programme

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Quality of educational dialogue and association with students’ academic performance

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Questionnaire on Transition Practices

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Reading Difficulties Identification: A Comparison of Neural Networks, Linear, and Mixture Models

scientific article published on 18 July 2022

Reading Skills, Social Competence, and Physiological Stress in the First Grade

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Reading comprehension from grade 1 to 6 in two shallow orthographies: comparison of Estonian and Finnish students

article by Piret Soodla et al published 12 March 2018 in Compare

Reading development subtypes and their early characteristics.

scientific article published on 30 May 2007

Reading performance and its developmental trajectories during the first and the second grade

article by Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen et al published April 2004 in Learning and Instruction

Reflections on dialogicity: Challenges and suggestions by mathematics student teachers

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Relations Between Achievement Goal Orientations and Math Achievement in Primary Grades: A Follow‐Up Study

Relations between Kindergarten Teachers’ Occupational Well-being and the Quality of Teacher-child Interactions

Scaffolding patterns of dialogic exchange in toddler classrooms

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Scaffolding through dialogic teaching in early school classrooms

School grades as predictors of self-esteem and changes in internalizing problems: A longitudinal study from fourth through seventh grade

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Screening for Slow Reading Acquisition in Norway and Finland – a Quest for Context Specific Predictors

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Social Competence Among 6-year-old Children and Classroom Instructional Support and Teacher Stress

Social withdrawal in children moderates the association between parenting styles and the children's own socioemotional development.

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

Special Education Teachers’ Identification of Students’ Reading Difficulties in Grade 6

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Stability of social support during school transitions: Associations with truancy and not completing upper secondary education in normative time

scientific article published in December 2022

Student Engagement and School Burnout in Finnish Lower-Secondary Schools: Latent Profile Analysis

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Student Teachers' Professional and Personal Development through Academic Study of Educational Transactional Analysis

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Student behavioral engagement as a mediator between teacher, family, and peer support and school truancy

Student engagement, truancy, and cynicism: A longitudinal study from primary school to upper secondary education

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Student participation in learning environment improvement: analysis of a co-design project in a Finnish upper secondary school

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Students' Positive Expectations and Concerns Prior to the School Transition to Lower Secondary School

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Students' academic and emotional adjustment during the transition from primary to secondary school: A cross-lagged study

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Students’ experiences of their agency in whole-class playing

scientific article published on 14 October 2022

Supportive Parenting Buffers the Effects of Low Peer Acceptance on Children’s Internalizing Problem Behaviors

Task avoidance, number skills and parental learning difficulties as predictors of poor response to instruction

scientific article published on 19 July 2011

Task-focused behavior mediates the associations between supportive interpersonal environments and students' academic performance

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Task-focused behaviour and literacy development: a reciprocal relationship

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Teacher and student teacher views of agency in feedback

scientific article published in May 2022

Teacher beliefs about student agency in whole-class playing

scientific article published on 11 July 2022

Teacher coping profiles in relation to teacher well-being: A mixed method approach

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Teacher emotional support in relation to social competence in preschool classrooms

Teacher-perceived supportive classroom climate protects against detrimental impact of reading disability risk on peer rejection

Teacher-student interaction and lower secondary school students' situational engagement

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Teachers adapt their instruction in reading according to individual children's literacy skills

Teachers’ Ability to Identify Children at Early Risk for Reading Difficulties in Grade 1

Teachers’ Focus of Attention in First-grade Classrooms: Exploring Teachers Experiencing Less and More Stress Using Mobile Eye-tracking

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Teacher–child interaction quality and children's self‐regulation in toddler classrooms in Finland and Portugal

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The Concordance between Teachers’ and Parents’ Perceptions of School Transition Practices: A Solid Base for the Future

The Developmental Dynamics of Literacy Skills During the First Grade

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The Influence of Instructional Practices on Reading Motivation in Finland

The Predictors of Literacy Skills among Monolingual and Bilingual Finnish–Swedish Children During First Grade

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The Role of Parental Beliefs and Practices in Children’s Motivation in a Changing World

article published in 2019

The Role of Perceived Social Support as a Contributor to the Successful Transition from Primary to Lower Secondary School

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The Role of Reading Disability Risk and Environmental Protective Factors in Students' Reading Fluency in Grade 4

The Roles of Achievement-Related Behaviours and Parental Beliefs in Children's Mathematical Performance

The cross-lagged associations between classroom interactions and children’s achievement behaviors

article published in 2014

The cross-lagged relations between children’s academic skill development, task-avoidance, and parental beliefs about success

The developmental dynamics of children's academic performance and mothers' homework-related affect and practices

scientific article published in April 2015

The double deficit hypothesis in the transparent Finnish orthography: a longitudinal study from kindergarten to Grade 2

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The effectiveness of increased support in reading and its relationship to teachers' affect and children's motivation

The frequency of parents’ reading-related activities at home and children's reading skills during kindergarten and Grade 1

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The home literacy model in a highly transparent orthography

The impact of children’s socioemotional development on parenting styles: the moderating effect of social withdrawal

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The precursors of double dissociation between reading and spelling in a transparent orthography

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

The relationship between classroom quality and students’ engagement in secondary school

The role of letters and syllables in typical and dysfluent reading in a transparent orthography

The role of parenting styles and teacher interactional styles in children's reading and spelling development.

scientific article published on 25 July 2012

The role of part-time special education supporting students with reading and spelling difficulties from grade 1 to grade 2 in Finland

The role of teaching practices in the development of children’s interest in reading and mathematics in kindergarten

Validating the early childhood classroom observation measure in first and third grade classrooms

Variation in situation-specific engagement among lower secondary school students

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Work-related stress of elementary school principals in Finland: Coping strategies and support

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