Senior Scientist, Prof in Education (learning and teaching), Centre for Learning

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Marja Vauras, Senior Scientist, Prof. in Education (learning and teaching), Centre for Learning 

Research and Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku. Her research is focused, 

particularly, on sub-performing students, who experience multiple cognitive and motivational 

problems in school, with the emphasis on interactive, long-term development of cognition and 

motivation in social interaction. Her research aims at expanding the analysis on complex 

developmental - learning-related - interactions between cognitive and metacognitive 

competence, motivation, emotion and social interaction. More recently, the focus of her 

research has moved to the role of both school- and family-related, social factors contributing to 

learning and motivational-emotional processes, particularly, in relation to learning difficulties as 

well as excellence in learning. Above with long-term development of diagnostics and 

interventions, her recent methodological efforts concern learning-related person-situation 

transactions and educational software and collaborative learning environments.