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Insights into Finnish first-year pre-service teachers’ twenty-first century skills

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This study focuses on Finnish pre-service teachers’ perceptions of their twenty-first century skills, especially their learning strategies, collaboration and teamwork, as well as knowledge and attitudes related to ICT in education. The target group consist of 263 first-year pre-service teachers from three universities. The results outline how pre-service teachers perceive their twenty-first century skills, the relationships between different areas of these skills, and the differences among pre-service teachers in terms of perceived skills. The results indicate that the pre-service teachers perceive themselves as skilled learners in terms of learning strategies used as well as collaboration and teamwork. When it comes to understanding how to use ICT in education, they perceived their level of knowledge lower. The strongest variation between respondents was seen in the areas of knowledge and attitudes related to the use of ICT in education.

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  1. Philosophical Faculty, School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland, PO Box 111, 80101, Joensuu, Finland

    Teemu Valtonen, Erkko Tapio Sointu, Jari Kukkonen & Kati Mäkitalo-Siegl

  2. Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Päivi Häkkinen, Arto Ahonen & Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen

  3. Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Sanna Järvelä & Piia Näykki

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Valtonen, T., Sointu, E.T., Kukkonen, J. et al. Insights into Finnish first-year pre-service teachers’ twenty-first century skills. Educ Inf Technol 22, 2055–2069 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-016-9529-2

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