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COURSES  2009

Seminar/ workshop preceeding the national seminar on IT in Education (ITK-päivät)

This seminar is an opportunity to present your work in public with a live discussant. In addition the organizers of the national seminar  are preparing a web-based publication on the best papers submitted.          

• When and where: 22.4.2009 in Hämeenlinna (seminar streams are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m; before and after a plenary session)
• Language: Finnish, but with the opportunity to present in English for those not fluent in Finnish
• What is required of participants: an abstract by the deadline (see below) and a presentation of one's work; the organizers of the national seminar would also appreciate receiving a full paper to be considered for publication after the seminar/workshop (see schedule for deadlines)
• credits: 2 ECTS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      IMPORTANT DEADLINES

1. Final deadline for abstracts (with no extensions): 6.3.2009
2. Deadline for decisions regarding accepted papers: 16.3.09
3. Deadline for registration: 9.4.2009 both to Laura Helle and the national seminar ("workshops") at http://www.hameenkesayliopisto.fi/itk/ilmoittautuminen.html
4. Deadline for presenters to send presentations and abstracts to Ms. Anneli Östman (firstname.lastname@uta.fi:): 14.4.09
5. Deadline for presenters to submit their paper to Ms. Anneli Östman: 8.5.09

Please note:  The organizer of the entire event recommends booking a hotel rooms well ahead of time.

Have you ever wondered how to plead your case when you are either writing or defending your disseration? Or how does one prepare one's dissertation speech? This is a guided opportunity to prepare and revise either an article manuscript OR the introduction and summary of one's dissertation and to receive feedback from internationally renown experts in the field.

• For whom: Although there is an emphasis of the last stages of writing the dissertation, all students may apply for this course (please note that we can accept only  a limited amount of participants on this popular course)
• When and where: The kick-off session will be held in Hämeenlinna (Aulanko hotel) on April 22th, 2009, at 15.30-17.30 in conjunction with the seminar in Hämeenlinna (no manuscript needed at this stage!); the kick-off session will be followed by independent work first on preparing a manuscript; then revising the manuscript on one's own according to instructions and then in pairs; the capstone event is a final seminar to be held in Turku on November 12th-13th, 2009.
• Language: English
• Credits: 4 ECTS
• Guest stars/ commentators of final manuscripts (max. 25 pages): Finnish Distinguished Professor Roger Säljö, Dr. Koen Veermans and Prof. Erno Lehtinen
• Contents of first meeting in Hämeenlinna: Strategies for pleading your case and creating "the twist" in your scientific writing, analyses of models of successful dissertation introductions and discussions
• Contents of second meeting (in addition to feedback on manuscripts): writing the lectio and the press release
• ***Registration:  latest by the end of March to Laura Helle (teacher in charge of course)***

 ISATT 2009 (conference of the international study association on teachers and teaching, University of Lapland, 1.-4.7.09; preconference for doctoral students 29.6.-30.6.09)

Methods courses offered in collaboration with the Graduate School of Psychology

Basics of structural equations modelling with MPLUS  (in Finnish)

Structural equations modeling is becoming more and more used as a quantitative research analysis method. Also many entirely new methods build upon it. It is in essence a combination of confirmatory factor analysis and regression analysis. It is suited for the testing of theories ("path models") postulating relations among several variables. It fits very nicely with longitudinal designs, but requires rather large data sets and some background knowledge of statistics. 

• What: course with lectures and demos
• Language: Finnish
• When and where: part I: 27.-28.8.09, part II  10.-11.9.09, University of Jyväskylä
• Teachers: Prof. Esko Leskinen and Dr. Asko Tolvanen
• Registration deadline. 14.8.09 to Tarja-Riitta Hurme and to Pia Carpelan (firstname.lastname@utu.fi)
• Credits: 6 ECTS

For more information, please consult  the link above (webpages of the Graduate School of Psychology)

Social network analysis for longitudinal data: estimating network dynamics and individual behavioral trajectories

02.09.2009 11:01 Tarja-Riitta Hurme