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Enhancing citizen response to crises through communication : investigating expert views
(Inderscience Publishers, 2015)
The purpose of this paper is to clarify how citizen response to crises is currently being enhanced, and how it might be increased, by emergency response organisations in member states of the European Union via communication ...
Dyslexia : early Identification and Prevention: Highlights from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia
(Springer, 2015)
Over two decades of Finnish research, monitoring
children born with risk for dyslexia has been carried out in the
Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia (JLD). Two hundred
children, half at risk, have been assessed ...
Effect of a simulation-based workshop on multidisplinary teamwork of newborn emergencies: an intervention study
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2015)
Background: Video analyses of real-life newborn resuscitations have shown that Neonatal Resuscitation Program
(NRP) guidelines are followed in fewer than 50 % of cases. Multidisciplinary simulation is used as a first-rate ...
Gaze position reveals impaired attentional shift during visual word recognition in dysfluent readers
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Effects reflecting serial within-word processing are frequently found in pseudo- and non-word recognition tasks not only among fluent, but especially among dyslexic readers. However, the time course and locus of these ...
Parental literacy predicts children’s literacy: A longitudinal family-risk study
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011)
This family-risk (FR) study examined whether the literacy skills of parents with dyslexia are predictive of the literacy skills of their offspring. We report data from 31 child–parent dyads where both had dyslexia (FR-D) ...
Why Do Teachers Use Game-Based Learning Technologies? The Role of Individual and Institutional ICT Readiness
(IEEE, 2015)
This paper investigates how different individual
and institutional factors pertaining to ICT readiness
influence teachers’ adoption of game-based learning
technologies. The data were gathered from Finnish
primary, lower ...
Considering Learners’ Perceptions in Designing Effective 21st Century Learning Environments for Basic Education in Finland
(Common Ground Publishing, 2014)
Focusing on so called Key Competences or 21st Century Skills urges educational organizations to redesign their
psychosocial and physical learning environments. Inspired by studies indicating that considering learners’ ...
Implications of timing of entering adulthood for identity achievement
(Sage Publications, 2007)
Five external markers of adulthood, self-perceived adulthood at age 27, and
identity achievement at ages 27, 36, and 42 were explored for 95 women and 94
men in a cohort of Finns born in 1959. Earlier transition to ...
Crisis Communication Competence in Co-Producing Safety with Citizen Groups
(M D P I AG, 2016)
The aim of this article is to explore interpersonal communication competence needed by crisis communication and management experts when co-operating with citizen groups in response to emergencies. Moreover, the purpose is ...
Teachers’ attitudes, competencies, and readiness to adopt mobile learning approaches
(IEEE, 2014)
This study explores how teachers' attitudes and
competencies influence their willingness to adopt mobile learning
approaches. By mobile learning we mean teaching approaches
that use mobile devices to enliven and extend ...