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

 

 

Publications