Pekka Niemi
PhD
peknie@utu.fi Assistentinkatu 7 Turku Office: 242 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3277-8787 |
Biography
Please see the attached short CV.
Research
Beginning reading and its difficulties, particularly so-called "treatment resisters" who despite ample help show very slow progress in their reading career.
Publications 
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- Främjar språklekar i förskolan riskbarnens läsförståelse nio år senare? (2023)
- Läs- och skrivsvårigheter och Dyslexi
(E1 Popularised article) - Reading Development from Kindergarten to Age 18: The Role of Gender and Parental Education (2023)
- Reading Research Quarterly
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Development of silent reading fluency and reading comprehension across grades 1 to 9: unidirectional or bidirectional effects between the two skills? (2022)
- Reading and Writing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Long-term effects of the home literacy environment on reading development: Familial risk for dyslexia as a moderator (2022)
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kindergarten pre-reading skills predict Grade 9 reading comprehension (PISA Reading) but fail to explain gender difference (2021)
- Reading and Writing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kirjojen lukeminen tukee luetun ymmärtämisen kehitystä (2021)
- NMI-Bulletin
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Longitudinal associations between poor reading skills, bullying and victimization across the transition from elementary to middle school (2021)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Rohkea ja utelias. Turun yliopiston psykologian laitos 1922-2022 (2021) Niemi Pekka
(E2 Popularised book ) - Leisure Reading (But Not Any Kind) and Reading Comprehension Support Each Other-A Longitudinal Study Across Grades 1 and 9. (2020)
- Child Development
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Leisure reading (but not any kind) promotes reading comprehension – A longitudinal study in grades 1 to 9 (2020)
- Child Development
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Longitudinal Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Parental Difficulties on Reading and Math Development Across Grades 1-9 (2020)
- Frontiers in Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Reading comprehension difficulty is often distinct from difficulty in reading fluency and accompanied with problems in motivation and school well-being (2020)
- Educational Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Vocabulary, metacognitive knowledge and task orientation as predictors of narrative picture book comprehension: from preschool to grade 3 (2020)
- Reading and Writing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kindergarten Training in Phonological Awareness: Fluency and Comprehension Gains Are Greatest for Readers at Risk in Grades 1 Through 9 (2019)
- Journal of Learning Disabilities
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prematurity and overlap between reading and arithmetic: The cognitive mechanism behind the association (2019)
- Contemporary Educational Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Word Reading Skills and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems from Grade 1 to Grade 2 - Developmental Trajectories and Bullying Involvement in Grade 3 (2019)
- Scientific Studies of Reading
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Comorbid Fluency Difficulties in Reading and Math: Longitudinal Stability Across Early Grades (2018)
- Exceptional Children
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Early cognitive predictors of PISA reading in children with and without family risk for dyslexia (2018)
- Learning and Individual Differences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Why do boys and girls perform differently on PISA Reading in Finland? The effects of reading fluency, achievement behaviour, leisure reading and homework activity (2018)
- Journal of Research in Reading
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Psykologia: Kokeellisesta sielutieteestä yhteiskunnallisiin sovelluksiin. (2017) Tehtävänä yhteiskunta. Turun yliopiston yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta 1967–2017 Niemi Pekka
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)
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