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Overview

Erno Lehtinen is affiliated with the University of Turku in Finland. Their research is primarily situated within the social sciences and psychology, with a particular focus on education and developmental and educational psychology. The subfields of their work also extensively cover statistics and probability, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as social psychology.

Their research covers a range of main topics including:

  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Educational Games and Gamification
  • Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Jake McMullen
  • Minna Hannula-Sormunen
  • Lina Kaminskienė
  • Ilona Södervik
  • Tomi Kärki

Erno Lehtinen's recent publications reflect diverse interests across educational psychology and teacher education. Selected recent papers include:

  • Teacher Expertise and Professional Vision: Examining Knowledge-Based Reasoning of Pre-Service Teachers, In-Service Teachers, and School Principals (2020), published in Frontiers in Education
  • Student Teachers' and Experienced Teachers' Professional Vision of Students' Understanding of the Rational Number Concept (2020), published in Educational Psychology Review
  • How does technology challenge teacher education? (2022), published in International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
  • Thirty years of conceptual change research in biology - A review and meta-analysis of intervention studies (2023), published in Educational Research Review
  • Distinguishing adaptive from routine expertise with rational number arithmetic (2020), published in Learning and Instruction

The main publication venues for their work include:

  • Frontiers in Education
  • Frontline Learning Research
  • Educational Psychology Review
  • Educational Research Review
  • Learning and Instruction

The scope of Erno Lehtinen's research integrates educational practice with cognitive and developmental psychology, often with an emphasis on mathematical education and innovative pedagogical methods. Their work appears to contribute significantly to understanding how teachers and students develop expertise in mathematical and scientific domains, as well as the role of technology in teacher education.

Best Publications

  • Communities of Networked Expertise: Professional and Educational Perspectives

    Kai Hakkarainen;Tuire Palonen;Sami Paavola;Erno Lehtinen

  • Expertise Differences in the Comprehension of Visualizations: a Meta-Analysis of Eye-Tracking Research in Professional Domains

    Andreas Gegenfurtner;Erno Lehtinen;Roger Säljö;Roger Säljö

  • Socially shared metacognition of dyads of pupils in collaborative mathematical problem-solving processes

    Tuike Iiskala;Marja Vauras;Erno Lehtinen;Pekka Salonen

  • Spontaneous Focusing on Numerosity and Mathematical Skills of Young Children.

    Minna M. Hannula;Erno Lehtinen

  • Students' skills and practices of using ICT: results of a national assessment in Finland

    Kai Hakkarainen;Liisa Ilomáki;Lasse Lipponen;Hanni Muukkonen

  • Evaluating CSCL log files by social network analysis

    Kari Nurmela;Erno Lehtinen;Tuire Palonen

  • SHARED-REGULATION AND MOTIVATION OF COLLABORATING PEERS: A CASE ANALYSIS

    Marja Vauras;Tuike Iiskala;Anu Kajamies;Riitta Kinnunen

  • Difficulties Experienced by Education and Sociology Students in Quantitative Methods Courses

    Mari Murtonen;Erno Lehtinen

  • Spontaneous focusing on numerosity as a domain-specific predictor of arithmetical skills

    Minna M. Hannula;Janne Lepola;Erno Lehtinen

  • Socially Shared Metacognitive Regulation in Asynchronous CSCL in Science: Functions, Evolution and Participation

    Tuike Iiskala;Simone Volet;Erno Lehtinen;Marja Vauras

  • Number concept and conceptual change: towards a systemic model of the processes of change

    Kaarina Merenluoto;Erno Lehtinen

  • Socially-shared metacognition in peer learning?

    Tuike liskala;Marja Vauras;Erno Lehtinen

  • Development of Counting Skills: Role of Spontaneous Focusing on Numerosity and Subitizing-Based Enumeration

    Minna M. Hannula;Pekka Räsänen;Erno Lehtinen

  • Long-term development of learning activity: Motivational, cognitive, and social interaction

    Erno Lehtinen;Marja Vauras;Pekka Salonen;Erkki Olkinuora

  • “Do I need research skills in working life?”: University students’ motivation and difficulties in quantitative methods courses

    Mari Murtonen;Erkki Olkinuora;Päivi Tynjälä;Erno Lehtinen

  • Predicting autonomous and controlled motivation to transfer training

    Andreas Gegenfurtner;Dagmar Festner;Wolfgang Gallenberger;Erno Lehtinen

  • Effects of a mathematics game-based learning environment on primary school students' adaptive number knowledge

    Boglárka Brezovszky;Jake McMullen;Koen Veermans;Minna M. Hannula-Sormunen

  • Preschool Children's Spontaneous Focusing on Numerosity, Subitizing, and Counting Skills as Predictors of Their Mathematical Performance Seven Years Later at School.

    Minna M. Hannula-Sormunen;Erno Lehtinen;Pekka Räsänen

  • Abstraction and the acquisition of complex ideas

    Stellan Ohlsson;Erno Lehtinen

  • The return of behaviourist epistemology: A review of learning outcomes studies

    Mari Murtonen;Hans Gruber;Hans Gruber;Erno Lehtinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Hakkarainen
Kai Hakkarainen University of Helsinki
Roger Säljö
Roger Säljö University of Gothenburg
Sanna Järvelä
Sanna Järvelä University of Oulu
Simone Volet
Simone Volet Murdoch University
Henny P. A. Boshuizen
Henny P. A. Boshuizen The Open University
Stellan Ohlsson
Stellan Ohlsson University of Illinois at Chicago
Stella Vosniadou
Stella Vosniadou Flinders University
Noona Kiuru
Noona Kiuru University of Jyväskylä
Jan Elen
Jan Elen KU Leuven

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