Blar i forfatter "Tossavainen, Timo"

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    • 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 freshmen engineering students' self-efficacy, motivation, and view of mathematics in light of task performance 

      Rensaa, Ragnhild Johanne; Tossavainen, Timo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-15)
      We report on 71 Norwegian freshmen engineering students' self-efficacy and motivation in mathematics. Students' responses to five-point Likert scales were analysed across three groups corresponding to different performance levels on a set of mathematical tasks. The groups were investigated to trace differences in self-efficacy, motivation, and the epistemological beliefs about the nature of mathematics. ...

    • 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 ...

    • Swedish first-year engineering students’ views of mathematics, self-efficacy and motivation and their effect on task performance 

      Tossavainen, Timo; Rensaa, Ragnhild Johanne; Johansson, Monica (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-29)
      We examine a group (N = 88) of Swedish first-year engineering students, their motivation, self-efficacy, and beliefs about the nature of mathematics, and how these relate to their task performance in mathematics. In our data, engineering students who emphasized the exact reasoning in their view of mathematics performed significantly better in a set of mathematical tasks than those who emphasized ...