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Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen

Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen

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Psychology

D-Index
58
Citations
11096
World Ranking
3907
National Ranking
31

Overview

Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen is affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a strong emphasis on Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology as subfields. The work includes significant contributions to topics such as Early Childhood Education and Development, Reading and Literacy Development, and Parental Involvement in Education.

Lerkkanen has published extensively on subjects related to teacher education, child development, and psychosocial processes within educational settings. Their research also addresses areas like Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, as well as Educational and Psychological Assessments.

Frequent publication venues for Lerkkanen's work include:

  • Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
  • Frontiers in Education
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Teaching and Teacher Education
  • Learning and Individual Differences

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Lerkkanen encompass:

  • Eija Pakarinen
  • Anna-Maija Poikkeus
  • Minna Torppa
  • Heli Muhonen
  • Sanni Pöysä

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Lerkkanen include:

  • Home Literacy Activities and Children's Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2 (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Relations between Kindergarten Teachers' Occupational Well-being and the Quality of Teacher-child Interactions (2020, Early Education and Development)
  • Teacher coping profiles in relation to teacher well-being: A mixed method approach (2021, Teaching and Teacher Education)
  • Teacher emotional support in relation to social competence in preschool classrooms (2020, International Journal of Research & Method in Education)
  • Early Antecedents of School Burnout in Upper Secondary Education: A Five-year Longitudinal Study (2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence)

Best Publications

  • Developmental Dynamics of Math Performance From Preschool to Grade 2

    Kaisa Aunola;Esko Leskinen;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Jari-Erik Nurmi

  • A Validation of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in Finnish Kindergartens

    Eija Pakarinen;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus;Noona Kiuru

  • Computer-Assisted Remedial Reading Intervention for School Beginners at Risk for Reading Disability

    Nina L. Saine;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Timo Ahonen;Asko Tolvanen

  • Reading development subtypes and their early characteristics

    Minna Torppa;Asko Tolvanen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus;Kenneth Eklund

  • Linguistic and Spatial Skills Predict Early Arithmetic Development via Counting Sequence Knowledge

    Xiao Zhang;Tuire Koponen;Pekka Räsänen;Kaisa Aunola

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

    Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Noona Kiuru;Eija Pakarinen;Jaana Viljaranta

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

    Kaisa Aunola;Jari-Erik Nurmi;Pekka Niemi;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen

  • Classroom organization and teacher stress predict learning motivation in kindergarten children

    Eija Pakarinen;Noona Kiuru;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus

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

    Kaisa Aunola;Jari-Erik Nurmi;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Helena Rasku-Puttonen

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

    Minna Torppa;Pekka Niemi;Kati Vasalampi;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen

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

    Gintautas Silinskas;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Asko Tolvanen;Pekka Niemi

  • Examining the Simple View of Reading in a Transparent Orthography: A Longitudinal Study From Kindergarten to Grade 3

    Minna Torppa;George K. Georgiou;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Pekka Niemi

  • Predicting reading performance during the first and the second year of primary school

    Marja‐kristiina Lerkkanen;Helena Rasku‐puttonen;Kaisa Aunola;Jari‐erik Nurmi

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

    Noona Kiuru;Kaisa Aunola;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Eija Pakarinen

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

    Minna Torppa;Rauno Parrila;Pekka Niemi;Marja Kristiina Lerkkanen

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

    Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Noona Kiuru;Eija Pakarinen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus

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

    Tuire Koponen;Paula Salmi;Minna Torppa;Kenneth Eklund

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

    Jaana Viljaranta;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus;Kaisa Aunola

  • Predicting Word-Level Reading Fluency Outcomes in Three Contrastive Groups: Remedial and Computer-Assisted Remedial Reading Intervention, and Mainstream Instruction

    Nina L. Saine;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Timo Ahonen;Asko Tolvanen

  • Scaffolding through dialogic teaching in early school classrooms

    Heli Muhonen;Helena Rasku-Puttonen;Eija Pakarinen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus

  • Learning to read : reciprocal processes and individual pathways

    Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jari-Erik Nurmi
Jari-Erik Nurmi University of Jyväskylä
Anna-Maija Poikkeus
Anna-Maija Poikkeus University of Jyväskylä
Kaisa Aunola
Kaisa Aunola University of Jyväskylä
Noona Kiuru
Noona Kiuru University of Jyväskylä
Pekka Niemi
Pekka Niemi University of Turku
Asko Tolvanen
Asko Tolvanen University of Jyväskylä
Eve Kikas
Eve Kikas Tallinn University
Timo Ahonen
Timo Ahonen University of Jyväskylä
Mikko Aro
Mikko Aro University of Jyväskylä
Kenneth Eklund
Kenneth Eklund University of Jyväskylä

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