• First-year engineering students’ mathematics task performance and its relation to their motivational values and views about mathematics 

      Tossavainen, Timo; Rensaa, Ragnhild Johanne; Haukkanen, Pentti; Mattila, Mika; Johansson, Monica (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-26)
      This study investigates Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish first-year engineering students’ task performance in mathematics and examines how it relates to their motivational values and beliefs about the nature of mathematics. In a set of seven mathematical tasks, female students outperformed male students, for example, in the simplification of symbolic expressions. Our findings also show that ...
    • Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish first-year engineering students' motivational values and beliefs about the nature of mathematics 

      Tossavainen, Timo; Rensaa, Ragnhild Johanne; Haukkanen, Pentti (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022)
      We report from a Nordic research project that has investigated first-year engineering students in Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and the relationships between their task performance, motivational values, and beliefs about the nature of mathematics. The present paper focuses on the covariance between their motivational values and beliefs from the perspectives of gender and nationality. The results ...