Sari
Lindblom-Ylänne
Professor
of Higher Education, Debuty Head, Department of Education
Director of
the Centre for Research and Development of Higher Education
Faculty of Behavioural Sciences
P.O.Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki
Tel. +358-9-19120628
Cellular +358-400-846672
Fax +358-9-191 20561
Email
sari.lindblom-ylanne[at] helsinki.fi
Education
Master of
Psychology 1986 (Master’s Thesis on developmental psychology, Faculty of Arts)
Licensed
psychologist 1986
Licentiate of
Philosophy 1998 (Licentiate’s Thesis on cognitive psychology, Faculty of Arts)
Ph.D. 1999
(Academic dissertation on educational psychology and medical education: Studying in a traditional medical
curriculum- Study success, orientations to studying and problems that arise,
Faculty of Medicine, article dissertation which consisted of five
internationally published articles and one submitted manuscript)
Docent
(Adjunct Professor) of Educational Psychology 2001
International activities
President
of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
Member of
Editorial Board of Review of
Educational Research
Member of
International Advisory Board of Studies in Higher Education
Research areas
1)
Selecting students for universities and the predictive value of entrance
examinations
2) The
relations between the learning environment and the student (constructive and
destructive frictions, frictions in relation to study success, frictions and
study orchestrations)
3)
Orientations to studying and study orchestrations (development of study
orientations and study orchestrations during university studies, dissonant
study orchestrations, orientations and orchestrations in relation to study
success, discipline-specific orientations)
4)
Conceptions of knowledge and learning (epistemologies, effect of discipline on
these conceptions, epistemological development)
5)
Assessment and evaluation (different assessment practices, backwash of
assessment, quality of university learning and teaching, quality enhancement)
6)
Problem-based learning
7)
Interaction skills
8) Academic
writing
9)
Technology, learning and teaching (How different virtual learning environments
enhance learning and teaching)
10)
Scholarship of university teaching (university pedagogy, approaches to
teaching, discipline-specific approaches, effect of pedagogical training on
approaches to teaching, relations between research and teaching)
11)
Counselling and supervising