
Thi Thu Trang Nguyen
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I have always been interested in and curious about how learning occurs from different perspectives, and I am passionate about supporting students in learning effectively. As a former chemistry teacher, I recognize the significant role that teachers play in scaffolding students' learning processes and influencing their motivation to learn. To me, learning is fun, interesting, and meaningful—and that's what drives my goal as a researcher: to understand the nature of learning and how to support it from a teacher's perspective. A happy and motivated teacher can inspire their students to enjoy learning!
Academic Education Qualification
- Bachelor in Chemistry Teacher Education (University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
- Master of Arts in Education and Learning (University of Turku, Finland)
Work experience
I taught Chemistry in high school in Vietnam for 7 years before moving to Finland.
I have been working on different research projects in Finland and Australia regarding Teacher Professional Development:
- NEXUS project- LaTrobe University, Australia ( 2024): Research Assistant - doing tasks: research design, survey design, data analysis
- Vietnamese Teachers' Emotions in the Job Resource- Demand model, ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç (2024) ( with Dr. Hoa Nguyen)- Research Assistant - doing tasks: data analysis
- UNIPS projects - University of Turku, Finland (https://unips.fi/) ( 2019-2024): Research Assistant and course coordinator - doing tasks: research design, survey design, collecting data, analysis data, writing, submitting paper, presenting.
- Teacher Professional Development- University of Tampere, Finland (2020): Research Assistant - doing tasks: data analysis, writing research paper
- Teacher Professional Development- University of Helsinki, Finland ( 2022): Research Assistant- doing tasks: data analysis
Research Skills
- Designing empirical studies, designing data instruments, collecting data, data analysis, writing and submitting research papers, and doing presentations.
- Using quantitative data analysis tools, such as Excel, SPSS, AMOS, MPLUS and R.
- Design survey: Webropol, Redcap
* Other learning skills: playing piano, drawing, learning new languages
- Research area
- Research outputs
- Teacher professional development
- Teacher emotion
- Science of learning
- Instructional design
- STEM education and learning
- Nguyen, T. T. T., Vilppu, H., Södervik, I., & Murtonen, M. (2024). The effect of a short online pedagogical course on university teachers' conceptions of learning and engaging students during lectures. Online learning, 28(2).
- Murtonen, M., Aldahdouh, T. Z., Vilppu, H., Trang, N. T. T., Riekkinen, J., & Vermunt, J. D. (2024). . Teacher Development, 28(4), 534–552.Â
- Aldahdouh, T. Z., Murtonen, M., Riekkinen, J., Vilppu, H., Nguyen, T., & Nokelainen, P. (2023). University teachers’ profiles based on digital innovativeness and instructional adaptation to COVID-19: Association with learning patterns and teacher demographics. Education and Information Technologies, 28(11), 14473-14491.