Päivikki Jääskelä

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My research guides and give reasons for defining the foci of the development of university teaching, it also reveals the needs of support and assessment of the developmental work. The research produces also empirical knowledge about the evidence of the developmental work. University students' agency and their learning environment -sub-study offers methodological tools for assess and develop university teaching. Other sub-studies targeted at university teaching staff give knowledge about the teachers' pedagogical thinking, their developmental orientations, and supporting and constraining factors in the development of teaching perceived by the teachers. Especially educational developers, pedagogical leaders, educational managers and decision makers will benefit from this knowledge.

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