Liisa Postareff

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Liisa Postareff is a scholar working on Education, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Liisa Postareff has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Education, 11 papers in Social Psychology and 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Liisa Postareff's work include Evaluation of Teaching Practices (36 papers), Online and Blended Learning (12 papers) and Reflective Practices in Education (9 papers). Liisa Postareff is often cited by papers focused on Evaluation of Teaching Practices (36 papers), Online and Blended Learning (12 papers) and Reflective Practices in Education (9 papers). Liisa Postareff collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Estonia and Australia. Liisa Postareff's co-authors include Sari Lindblom‐Ylänne, Anne Nevgi, Anna Parpala, Viivi Virtanen, Telle Hailikari, Markus Mattsson, Nina Katajavuori, Auli Toom, Keith Trigwell and Petri Nokelainen and has published in prestigious journals such as Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning and Instruction and Studies in Higher Education.

In The Last Decade

Liisa Postareff

50 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The effect of pedagogical training on teaching in higher education

2007 397 citations Liisa Postareff, Sari Lindblom‐Ylänne et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liisa Postareff Finland	25	1.7k	333	314	165	134	53	2.2k
Anne Nevgi Finland	22	1.8k 1.0×	270 0.8×	470 1.5×	200 1.2×	67 0.5×	73	2.4k
Nick Zepke New Zealand	24	1.8k 1.1×	275 0.8×	252 0.8×	120 0.7×	127 0.9×	64	2.3k
Velda McCune United Kingdom	22	2.1k 1.2×	286 0.9×	501 1.6×	92 0.6×	137 1.0×	39	2.6k
Linda Leach New Zealand	22	1.5k 0.9×	238 0.7×	226 0.7×	90 0.5×	118 0.9×	45	2.0k
Ella Kahu New Zealand	15	1.7k 1.0×	413 1.2×	354 1.1×	200 1.2×	293 2.2×	28	2.4k
Rick Shoup United States	7	1.5k 0.9×	368 1.1×	200 0.6×	72 0.4×	136 1.0×	9	1.9k
Ty M. Cruce United States	12	1.6k 0.9×	402 1.2×	167 0.5×	65 0.4×	135 1.0×	17	2.0k
Matthew R. Wawrzynski United States	13	1.1k 0.7×	332 1.0×	125 0.4×	54 0.3×	102 0.8×	27	1.5k
Thomas F. Nelson Laird United States	21	1.4k 0.8×	309 0.9×	148 0.5×	93 0.6×	53 0.4×	38	1.7k
Auli Toom Finland	29	2.0k 1.2×	288 0.9×	437 1.4×	201 1.2×	164 1.2×	138	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liisa Postareff

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Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2025). Teacher well-being in change: a quantitative analysis of schoolteachers’ approaches to teaching and their teaching-related well-being during rapid shift in their work environment. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. 70(2). 249–265.

Niemivirta, Markku, et al.. (2025). A Person-Centered Study of Construction Sector Workers’ Goal Orientation Profiles and Their Connections to Approaches to Learning, Self-efficacy, and Work Engagement. Vocations and Learning. 18(1). 1 indexed citations

Virtanen, Viivi, Telle Hailikari, Mari Murtonen, Anna Parpala, & Liisa Postareff. (2025). What challenges higher education teachers’ teaching-related wellbeing?. Teacher Development. 30(2). 414–432.

Hailikari, Telle, et al.. (2025). Approaches to teaching and wellbeing among European higher education teachers. 27(1). 72–91.

Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2024). Exploring the variation of educational developers’ teaching-related perceptions in higher education. The International Journal for Academic Development. 30(4). 506–520. 2 indexed citations

Parpala, Anna, et al.. (2024). Using self-reflection to support higher education teaching. Reflective Practice. 25(5). 589–604. 2 indexed citations

Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2023). The dimensions of approaches to teaching in higher education: a new analysis of teaching profiles. Higher Education. 88(1). 37–59. 9 indexed citations

Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2022). Building a framework of a supportive pedagogical culture for teaching and pedagogical development in higher education. Higher Education. 85(4). 937–955. 14 indexed citations

Parpala, Anna & Liisa Postareff. (2022). Supporting high-quality teaching in higher education through the HowUTeach self-reflection tool. 23(4). 61–67. 9 indexed citations

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Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2021). The role of self-compassion in teachers’ psychological well-being in face-to-face and online teaching during COVID-19. 23(3). 13–27. 6 indexed citations

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Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2021). A survey research on Finnish teacher educators’ research-teaching integration and its relationship with their approaches to teaching. European Journal of Teacher Education. 46(1). 171–198. 25 indexed citations

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Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2021). Contrasting undergraduate mathematics students’ approaches to learning and their interactions within two student-centred learning environments. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 54(5). 687–705. 12 indexed citations

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Södervik, Ilona, et al.. (2019). The effect of short online pedagogical training on university teachers’ interpretations of teaching–learning situations. Instructional Science. 47(6). 679–709. 46 indexed citations

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Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2018). Teacher educators’ approaches to teaching and the nexus with self-efficacy and burnout: examples from two teachers’ universities in China. Journal of Education for Teaching International Research and Pedagogy. 44(4). 479–495. 27 indexed citations

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Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2018). Supporting Quality of Learning in University Mathematics: a Comparison of Two Instructional Designs. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. 5(1). 75–96. 25 indexed citations

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Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2018). Study-related exhaustion: First-year students’ use of self-regulation of learning and peer learning and perceived value of peer support. Active Learning in Higher Education. 21(3). 173–188. 36 indexed citations

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Postareff, Liisa, Markus Mattsson, & Anna Parpala. (2018). The effect of perceptions of the teaching-learning environment on the variation in approaches to learning – Between-student differences and within-student variation. Learning and Individual Differences. 68. 96–107. 30 indexed citations

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Pylväs, Laura, et al.. (2017). Guiding workplace learning in vocational education and training: a literature review. Empirical research in vocational education and training. 9(1). 76 indexed citations

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Postareff, Liisa, et al.. (2016). University students' self- and co-regulation of learning and processes of understanding: A person-oriented approach. Learning and Individual Differences. 47. 281–288. 39 indexed citations

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Tuononen, Tarja, et al.. (2016). Students’ and Teacher’s Experiences of the Validity and Reliability of Assessment in a Bioscience Course. Higher Education Studies. 6(4). 181–181. 6 indexed citations

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