Publications

Lisanduvad jooksvalt.

Eestikeelsed publikatsioonid:

• Kikas, E., & Koho, M. (2025). Õppimise erinevad viisid, teadmiste ja oskuste areng. Õpetaja roll õppimise toetamisel. In Meesak, Anne-Mai; Uibu, Krista (Toim.). Eesti keele õpet toetav alushariduse e-käsiraamat. Tallinna Ülikool. https://doi.org/10.60518/etera/105
• Kikas, E. & Luke, S. (2025). Lapse areng kultuurikeskkonnas  ja arengu iseärasused. In Meesak, Anne-Mai; Uibu, Krista (Toim.). Eesti keele õpet toetav alushariduse e-käsiraamat. Tallinna Ülikool. https://doi.org/10.60518/etera/102
• Kilp-Kabel, T., Mädamürk, K., Kurvits, J., McMullen, J., Hannula-Sormunen, M., & Määttä, S. (2025). Põhikooli matemaatika lõpueksami tulemuste seosed varasemate oskuste ja matemaatikahuviga. Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri = Estonian Journal of Education, 13 (1),  119−146. https://doi.org/10.12697/eha.2025.13.1.06
• Meesak, A-M.,  Kikas, E., Tammemäe, T., Tuul, M.,  Schults, A., & Tšuikina, N. (2025). Viieaastaste laste arengu hindamise e-vahendi LAHE struktuur ja tulemused. Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri = Estonian Journal of Education, 13 (1), 36−63. https://doi.org/10.12697/eha.2025.13.1.03
• Meesak, A.-M., & Uibu, K. (2025). Digitehnoloogiaga rikastatud keelemängud varase eesti keele kui teise keele õppeks: õpetajate hinnangud ja arendustöö. Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri. Estonian Journal of Education, 13(2), 77–103. https://doi.org/10.12697/eha.2025.13.2.04
• Meesak, A-M., & Uibu, K. (2025). Lapse hindamise ja uurimise vajalikkus ja eetika. In Meesak, Anne-Mai; Uibu, Krista (Toim.). Eesti keele õpet toetav alushariduse e-käsiraamat. Tallinna Ülikool. https://doi.org/10.60518/etera/106

​​​​​​​Doktoritööd:

• Kilp-Kabel, T. (2025). “Students' Math Motivation and Math Skills in Basic School” (Matemaatikamotivatsioon ja matemaatikaoskused põhikoolis). Doktoritöö, Tallinna Ülikool. link.

Ingliskeelsed publikatsioonid:​​​​​​​

• Eisenschmidt, E., & Oppi, P. (2025). School culture profiles in relation to teachers’ work-related experiences and teaching practices. School Effectiveness and School Improvement,  1−27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2025.2556666
• Granström, M., & Oppi, P. (2025). Assessing teachers’ readiness and perceived usefulness of AI in education: an Estonian perspective. Frontiers in Education, 10,  1622240. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1622240
• Granström, M., & Oppi, P. (2025).  Student engagement with AI tools in learning: evidence from a large-scale Estonian survey. Frontiers in Education, 10,  1688092. DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1688092.
• Havard, C., Breese, E., Thirkettle, M., Kask, K., Leol, K-L., & Mädamürk, K. (2025). A Background of Bias: Subtle Changes in Lineup Backgrounds Increase the Own Race Bias. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 40 (2),  292−303. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1688092
• Härma, E., Pulver, A., & Kikas, E. (2025). Profiles of Learning-Related Motivational Beliefs and Perceived Effectiveness of Learning Strategies Related to Academic Achievement and Psychological Well-Being. European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 8 (1), 17−34. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejper.8.1.17
• Jakobson, K., Soodla, P., Jõgi, A-L., & Aro, M. (2025). Teachers’ reading-related knowledge and perceived skills: examining the relationship. Reading and Writing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-025-10748-3
• Jurman, M., Malleus-Kotšegarov, E.,  Kikas, E., & Treial, K. (2025). Assessing teachers' social-emotional competence : psychometric properties of a CASEL self-assessment tool in an Estonian context. International journal of Emotional Education, 17 (2),  1−18. https://doi.org/10.56300/HKHL7414
• Kilp-Kabel, T., & Mädamürk, K. (2025). Expectancies, values, and task persistence can alleviate the negative effects of math anxiety on math performance. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 40 (1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00928-0.
• Korkman, J., Otgaar, H., Geven, L. M., Bull, R., Cyr, M., Hershkowitz, I., Makela, J. -m., Mattison, M., Milne, R., Santtila, P., van Koppen, P., Memon, A., Danby, M., Filipovic, L., Garcia, F. J., Gewehr, E., Bell, O. Gomes, Jarvilehto, L., Kask, K., Koerner, A. ... Volbert, R. (2025). White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law. Psychology Crime and Law, 31 (8),  987−1030.https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2024.2324098.
• Laine, S., Puusepp, I., Kuusisto, E., Rissanen, I., & Tirri, K. (2025). A mixed-methods study on the effects of a growth mindset program in Finnish elementary schools. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2025.2492051.
• Laurell, J., Puusepp, I., Hakkarainen, K., & Tirri, K. (2025). Students' cross-domain mindset profiles and academic achievement in Finnish lower-secondary education. Frontiers in Psychology, 16,  ARTN 1514879. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1514879.
• Malva, L., Toomla, K., Hooshyar, D., Kikas, E., & Malleus-Kotšegarov, E. (2025). Teachers’ Opinions of the Effectiveness of SRL Tools in Digital Learning – a Delphi Study. In:  Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 15th International Conference. (107−117).  Springer. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; 1619). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05070-0_10.
• Meesak, A-M., Rozgonjuk, D., Õun, T., & Kikas, E. (2025). Unlocking Early Academic Skills: Children's Cognitive Processes, Learning Skills, and Parental Beliefs and Behaviors Predicting Children's Language and Math Skills. Frontiers in Psychology, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1610243.
• Opikova, G., Reile, R., Konstabel, K., & Kask, K. (2025). Multiple behavioural risk factors and mental health among adults in Estonia. Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1600598.
• Opikova, G., Reile, R., Konstabel, K., & Kask, K. (2025). Mental disorder diagnoses as predictors of behavioural risk factors: The moderating role of socioeconomic status. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 79 (8),  588−596. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039488.2025.2557632.
• Santtila, P., Sun, Y., Kask, K., Järvilehto, L., & Xiu, J. (2025). Large language models' knowledge of children's memory and suggestibility: Evaluating model predictions of prior experimental results. Acta Psychologica, 258,  105270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105270.
• Suurna, R., Murnikov, V., & Kask, K. (2025). The relationship between recall accuracy and the use of gestures according to age and word meaning structure. Psychiatry Psychology and Law, 32 (4),  577−593. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2024.2346739.
• Tohvelmann, M.-L., Kask, K., Palu, A., Haginoya, S., & Santtila, P. (2025). Providing Feedback in Simulated Investigative Interviews with Adult Witness Avatars Increases the Use of Free Recall and Open Questions. International Journal of Police Science & Management, 27 (2),  182−198.https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557241310014.
• Toomela, A. (2025). If Gordon Allport was right, the Likert-type personality scales must be very poor descriptors of personality: he was right. Frontiers in Psychology, 16,  1465742. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1465742.
• Toros, K., Sindi, I., Lehtme, R., Schults, A., Liik, K., & Saia, K. (2025). A Study of the Closed Childcare Institution Service in Estonia. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 42 (2),  235−247.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-023-00951-y.
• Tulviste, T., Tõugu, P., & Schröder, L. (2025). Preschoolers’ and their parents’ mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Estonia and Germany. Early Years,  1−10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2025.2553030.
• Tõugu, P., Schröder, L., & Tulviste, T. (2025). Children’s mental health and mother-child elaborative reminiscing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from Estonian and German middle-class families. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001975.
• Valla, E., Väli, L., Nõmm, S., & Toomela, A. (2025). Smartphone-based microkinematic feature analysis for mental fatigue detection using machine learning: Can smartphones reveal when we are tired? Cognition Technology & Work,  26 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-025-00829-2.
• Murnikov, V., Kikas, E. Learning strategies and word meaning structure: types, level, and relations in the end of middle and high school. Eur J Psychol Educ 40, 140 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-025-01040-7
• Suurna, R., & Murnikov, V. (2025). Vääruskumused käitumismustrite hindamisel: Kas silmside asemel peaks tähelepanu suunama žestidele? Juridica, 2025(10–11), 698–707. Juridica. 
• Lauri, L.; Udam, M., & Murnikov, V. (ilmumas). Measuring what matters: An exploratory study on the Estonian institutional accreditation outcomes. Quality in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2025.2604395

Eestikeelsed publikatsioonid:

• Arro, G., Annist, A., Terasmaa, J., Alekand, A., Malleus-Kotšegarov, E., & Jesmin, T. (2024). Eesti õpetajate kliimateadlikkus ja kliimaga seotud teadusmõistete muutus koolituse mõjul. Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri. Estonian Journal of Education, 12(2), 79–108. https://doi.org/10.12697/eha.2024.12.2.04
• Jürjen, T. & Malleus-Kotšegarov, E. (2024). Sotsiaal-emotsionaalne pädevus. Kogumikus P. Häidkind & P. Soodla (Toim). Erivajadustega õppijad Eesti haridussüsteemis: märkamine, hindamine ja õpetamine. Õpik kõrgkoolidele (lk 279 – 303). TÜ kirjastus. https://doi.org/10.12697/erivajadustega_oppijad
• Kikas, E. (2024). Õpipädevus. Kogumikus P. Häidkind & P. Soodla (Toim). Erivajadustega õppijad Eesti haridussüsteemis: märkamine, hindamine ja õpetamine. Õpik kõrgkoolidele (lk 340–370). TÜ kirjastus.  https://doi.org/10.12697/erivajadustega_oppijad
• Kivistik, K., Pesti, M., Juuse, L., Jurman, M. & Käger, M. (2024). Õpetajate sotsiaal-emotsionaalse pädevuse arengut toetavate koolituste hindamise uuring. Aruanne. Tartu: Balti Uuringute Instituut. https://doi.org/10.23657/v4p3-xn80
• Plado, K. & Soodla, P. (2024). Lugemis- ja kirjutamisraskused. Kogumikus P. Häidkind & P. Soodla (Toim), Erivajadustega õppijad Eesti haridussüsteemis: märkamine, hindamine ja õpetamine. Õpik kõrgkoolidele (lk 431–464). TÜ kirjastus. https://doi.org/10.12697/erivajadustega_oppijad
• Silm, G. & Aus, K. (2024). Õppimise alused. Kogumikus Ä. Leijen (Toim). Kaasav haridus. (lk 113–145). TÜ kirjastus. https://hdl.handle.net/10062/104878

Doktoritööd:

• Granström, M. (2024). „Õpetajate ja õpilaste teadmised õpistrateegiatest ja nende õpetamine klassiruumis“. Doktoritöö, Tallinna Ülikool. link
• Juhkam, M. (2024). „Toward competent reading: from fluency to comprehension" („Oskuslikuks lugejaks: ladususest mõistmiseni“).Doktoritöö, Tallinna Ülikool. link
• Puusepp, I. (2024). Elementary school students’ learning-related mindsets: Associations with physiological processes reflecting attention and vigilance during an arithmetic task. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Helsinki]. Helda. link

Ingliskeelsed publikatsioonid:

• Kask, K. & Murnikov, V. (2024). A survey among Estonian residents one month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Resilience is Key. Security Spectrum: Journal of Advanced Security Research, 23, 75−96. https://doi.org/10.15158/bsry-6r61
• Kikas, E., Puusepp, I., & Aus, K. (2024). Expectancy-value-cost motivational profiles in biology and physics: Their relations with gender, self-reported satisfaction of needs, and learning behavior. Learning and Individual Differences, 115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102520 
• Kikas, E., Puusepp, I., Granström, M., & Mädamürk, K. (2024). Knowledge of Learning Strategies and Motivation to Use Them: Similarities and Differences between School Levels. Behavioral Sciences, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14100889 
• Kilp-Kabel, T., & Mädamürk, K. (2024). The developmental trajectories of math skills and its relation to math interest in Grades three and five. European Journal of Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00807-8
• Malleus, E., Arro, G., Jesmin, T., Kaal, E., Kangur, M., Olesk, A., ... & Väljataga, T. (2024). Asking meaningful questions in digital outdoor learning tool-a way to support conceptual change. Environmental Education Research, 30(5), 775–793. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2213415
• Mädamürk, K., & Kikas, E. (2024). The development of math skills from grades 1 to 12: Novel findings using person-oriented approach. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001813
• Olop, J., Granström, M., & Kikas, E. (2024). Students’ metacognitive knowledge of learning-strategy effectiveness and their recall of teachers’ strategy instructions. Frontiers in Education, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1307485 

• Post, P., Uibu, K., Terasmaa, J., Jürgenson, E., Arro, G., Laius, A., & Toll, V. (2024). Addressing climate change in education: objectives, content, and strategies. Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri. Estonian Journal of Education, 12(2), 52–78. https://doi.org/10.12697/eha.2024.12.2.03
• Puusepp, I., Aus, K., Härma, E., & Kikas, E. (2024). The Interplay Between Students’ Learning-Related Beliefs, Reading Comprehension Strategies and Academic Success. Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 14(1), 70–84. http://doi.org/10.5539/jedp.v14n1p70
• Puusepp, I., Tammi, T., Linnavalli, T., Huotilainen, M., Laine, S., Kuusisto, E., & Tirri, K. (2024). Changes in physiological arousal during an arithmetic task: profiles of elementary school students and their associations with mindset, task performance and math grade. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51683-7
• Sigus, H., & Mädamürk, K. (2024). Context matters: the importance of extra-mathematical knowledge in solving mathematical problems. Frontiers in Education, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1334034
• Suurna, R., Murnikov, V., Kask, K. (2024). The relationship between recall accuracy and the use of gestures according to age and word meaning structure. Psychiatry Psychology and Law. DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2024.2346739