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Katarina Alanko

Katarina Alanko currently works as a senior researcher at the Turku Research Institute for Learning Analytics, developing scalable solutions for school delivered mental health programs. She has been involved in research on school attendance for several years.

Joanna Sergejeff

Earlier Johanna Sergejeff has been involved in developing online teaching opportunities for students who are unable to attend school. From 2021 to 2023, she coordinated a project focused on student attendance at the Ministry of Education and Culture. Currently she works at the University of Jyväskylä and is conducting doctoral research on the monitoring of absenteeism.

The menus below were updated in September 2024. If you have information to share with others in your country, please contact your country’s hosts: Katarina Alanko (katarina.alanko@abo.fi) or Johanna Sergejeff (johanna.m.sergejeff@jyu.fi). 

  • EDUCA Flagship team in the University of Jyväskylä:
    • professor Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen, University of Jyväskylä
    • professor Noona Kiuru, University of Jyväskylä
    • professor Kati Vasalampi, University of Jyväskylä
    • Ph.D. Tuomo Virtanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and University of Stavanger, Norway.
    • Doctoral student Johanna Sergejeff, University of Jyväskylä
  • University of Turku:
    • professor Niina Junttila, Department of Teacher Education
    • PhD Katarina Alanko, Turku Research Institute for Learning Analytics
  • Åbo Akademi University
    • Doctoral students Johan Strömbeck and Tiina-Reetta Laurén-Knuutila

Research and impact work in Finnish society:

  • Finnish National Agency for Education organizes a national conference on school engagement at 8. – 9.10.2024 in Helsinki. The conference will also be streamed.

EDUCA Flagship The Education for the Future (EDUCA) Flagship (educaflagship.fi)

Sergejeff, J. (ed.) 2023. Our common school path. Handbook for supporting attendance and reducing absence in basic education. This handbook serves both as the final report of the project for developing a national Engaging School Community Work model in Finland and as support material for its local implementation. Handbook is available in Finnish and Swedish. https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/165025

Materials on School Attendance: Koulukunnossa.fi

Tuomo Virtanen:
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2971-8046
University of Jyväskylä staff page: https://www.jyu.fi/en/people/tuomo-virtanen

The following assessment scales have been translated within the project School Absence in Finland and in Sweden (2019-2023, Åbo Akademi, Alanko):

ISAP: Swedish
Adapted SRAS-R: Finnish, Swedish
SEQ-SS: Finnish, Swedish
SEQ-RSAP: Finnish, Swedish
SNACK: Finnish, Swedish

Guide to assessment of school attendance problems: Available in Finnish: My Country websites template_FINLAND.docx
Swedish: My Country websites template_FINLAND.docx

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