The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Association (AERA)

April 8th – 12th 2016
Bruner, J., Lavonen, J., & Inkinen, J. The impact of scientific practices on student engagement: Evidence from Finland and the United States.
Inkinen, J., & Lavonen, J. Students’ characteristics behind their science related engagement.Klager, C., & Inkinen, J. Socioemotional experiences of student in science and other academic classes.

April 3rd – 7th 2014
Schneider, B., Bruner, J., Judy, J., & Broda, M. Examining student engagement in secondary science classrooms using innovative smartphone technology.

The Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference (CIES)

March 6th – 10th 2016
Klager, C., & Burns, J. Preliminary results from a project-based science education intervention in the U.S. and Finland.

March 10th – 15th 2014
Symposium: The SAVI EAGER Project: Using smart phones to measure secondary school science engagement in Finland and the United States.
Chair: Eric Hamilton
Paper 1 – Broda, M. Examining patterns of survey non-response between U.S and Finnish students.
Paper 2 – Bruner, J. What are the differences that drive engagement between United States and Finnish students?
Paper 3 – Linnansaari, J. Students smart phone participation rates during the EAGER engagement study – A Finland, United States comparison.
Paper 4 – Lavonen, J., Moeller, J., Linnansaari, J., Salmela-Aro, K., Judy, J., & Schneider, B. Student engagement in learning school science in Finland and in the United States.

European Education Research Conference (ECER)

September 7th – 11th 2015
Symposium: International perspectives on student engagement
Chair: Barbara Schneider
Paper 1 – Schneider, B., Salmela-Aro, K., Linnansaari, J., Juuti, K., Spicer, J., & Broda, M. International perspectives on student engagement: Using innovative smartphone technology in science classrooms.
Paper 2 – Broda, M. Exploring the robustness of longitudinal models to variable response rates using the experience sampling method.
Paper 3 – Linnansaari, J., Juuti, K., & Spicer, J. Exploring the relationship of student engagement in Finnish and U.S. science classrooms with teacher pedagogy, attitudes, and instructions.

WERA workshop: Innovative methodologies for international research on adolescents
Course director: Barbara Schneider

Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)

August 31st – September 4th 2015
Symposium: Studying student and teacher engagement in Finnish & U.S. classrooms
Chair: Joseph Krajcik
Discussant: Knut Neumann & David Fortus
Paper 1 – Salmela-Aro, K., Lavonen, j., Schneider, B., & Krajcik, J. Investigating engagement in science classes in the U.S. and Finland
Paper 2 – Linnansaari, J. Optimal learning moments in science.
Paper 3 – Spicer, J., & Moeller, J. The conceptualization and measurement of student engagement.
Paper 4 – Peek-Brown, D., & Krajcik, J. Designing a project-based learning experiment to enhance optimal learning moments.

The Annual Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA)

November 21st – 22nd 2013
Linnansaari, J., Viljaranta, J., Juuti, K., Lavonen, J., & Salmela-Aro, K. Measuring students’ engagement by using smart phones.

International Conference on Motivation (ICM)

June 12th – 14th 2014
Moeller, J., Viljaranta, J. H., Schneider, B., Salmela-Aro, K., Lavonen, J., & Linnansaari, J. Alignment of momentary task values and momentary competence beliefs in different experience sampling method studies.
Abstract

Nordic Conference on Subject Education (NOFA)

May 27th – 29th 2015
Linnansaari, J., Juuti, K., Salmela-Aro, K., Schneider, B., & Lavonen, J. Different teaching methods and their relationship to students’ affective states in Finnish science classrooms.

Nordic Research Symposium on Science Education (NFSUN)

June 4th – 6th 2014
Symposium: Symposium 5: Finnish – USA collaboration in STEM education R & D: The science of learner engagement
Chair: Eric Hamilton & Jari Multisilta
Paper 2 – Linnansaari, J., Viljaranta, J., Juuti, K., & Salmela-Aro, K. Students’ situational engagement in Finnish science classrooms.
Paper 3 – Moeller, J., Lavonen, J., Salmela-Aro, K., & Schneider, B. How should we measure engagement in science? Comparison of four established scales.

Juuti, K., Lavonen, J., Linnansaari, J., Salmela-Aro, K., & Viljaranta, J. What do ninth-grade students see, think and do in science lessons?

Pathways to Adulthood

Moeller, J., Dietrich, J., Schneider, B., Lavonen, J., Salmela-Aro, K. Patterns of momentary engagement in school context: An experience sampling ISOA approach.

Viljaranta, J., Moeller, J., Salmela-Aro, K., Schneider, B. Momentary measures of task value and competence beliefs: Exploring person-specific and situation-specific determinants.

Annual Conference of the Southern African Association dedicated to the advancement of research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (SAARMESTE)

January 12th – 15th 2016
Lavonen, J., Bruner, J., Linnansaari, J., Juuti, K., Salmela-Aro, K., Krajcik, J., Schneider, B. The influence of gender, teacher, and scientific practices on students engagement in science learning in Finland and the United States.

Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) consortium meeting

June 9th – 11th 2014
Lavonen, J., Salmela-Aro, K., Schneider, B., Bruner, J., Judy, J., Linnansaari, J., Moeller, J., Juuti, K., Viljaranta, J., & Broda, M.SAVI Innovations in learning and education: Using smart phones to collect in the moment data of the student experience.
Poster & Video

The Focal Meeting of the World Education Research Association (WERA)

November 19th – 21st 2014
Symposium: EAGER to be engaged: Application of methods and theory in understanding science classroom experiences in Finland and the United States
Chair: Barbara Schneider
Discussant: Sari Lindblom-Ylänne
Paper 1 – Spicer, J., Moeller, J., Salmela-Aro, K., & Schneider, B. The conceptualization and measurement of student engagement.
Paper 2 – Broda, M. Exploring the robustness of longitudinal models to variable response rates using the experience sampling method.
Paper 3 – Bruner, J., Moeller, J., & Schneider, B. Measuring students’ engagement in the moment in which it occurs: How it differs by subgroup and home country.
Paper 4 – Linnansaari, J., Lavonen, J., Juuti, K., Spicer, J., & Bruner, J. Influence of experienced learning situation to students’ engagement in upper secondary science.