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 
2 of 5
- 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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