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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Role of Temperament in Children's Affective and Behavioral Responses in Achievement Situations
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Hirvonen, Riikka; Aunola, Kaisa; Alatupa, Saija; Viljaranta, Jaana; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Although students' affects and behaviors in achievement situations have been shown to be influenced by their previous learning experiences, less is known about how they relate to students' dispositional characteristics, such as temperament. This study examined to what extent children's temperament is related to their affective and behavioral…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Tests, Anxiety, Inhibition
Predictors of Mothers' and Fathers' Teaching of Reading and Mathematics during Kindergarten and Grade 1
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Silinskas, Gintautas; Leppanen, Ulla; Aunola, Kaisa; Parrila, Rauno; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Learning and Instruction, 2010
The aim of the present longitudinal study was to investigate factors contributing to mothers' and fathers' teaching of reading and mathematics to their children during kindergarten and Grade 1. It was assumed that mothers' and fathers' teaching during kindergarten would be influenced by their socioeconomic status and their own learning…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Mothers, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Cross-Lagged Relations between Task Motivation and Performance in Arithmetic and Literacy in Kindergarten
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Viljaranta, Jaana; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Aunola, Kaisa; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Learning and Instruction, 2009
To examine the cross-lagged relationships between children's task motivation in mathematics and literacy, and their related performance, 139 children aged 5-6 years were examined twice during their kindergarten year. The results showed that only math-related task motivation and arithmetic performance showed cross-lagged relationship: the higher…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Kindergarten, Arithmetic, Literacy
Letter Knowledge Predicts Grade 4 Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension
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Leppanen, Ulla; Aunola, Kaisa; Niemi, Pekka; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Learning and Instruction, 2008
The present study examined the predictors of fourth graders' reading skills (reading comprehension, text reading and word chain reading). Reading skill antecedents of 158 children of 5-6 years of age were measured at the beginning of kindergarten; students' reading skills were measured in kindergarten and in Grades 1 and 4. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Attention, Phonological Awareness
Reading Performance and Its Developmental Trajectories during the First and the Second Grade
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Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena; Aunola, Kaisa; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Learning and Instruction, 2004
This study examined children's reading performance and its developmental trajectories during the first and the second grade. Ninety children were tested five times on word reading and reading comprehension. Qualitatively different groups were identified through cluster analysis: Competent, Technical, and Poor Readers. The results showed that the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Multivariate Analysis, Grade 2
The Development of Achievement Strategies and Academic Skills during the First Year of Primary School.
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Onatsu-Arvilommi, Tiina; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Aunola, Kaisa – Learning and Instruction, 2002
Studied whether children's achievement strategies predict the development of their reading and mathematics skills during the first school year or whether these skills predict changes in their achievement strategies. Findings for 105 Finnish first graders show that maladaptive strategies hamper improvement in reading and mathematics; skills did not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries