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KiVa Anti-Bullying Programme
Presentation at the Bangor Conference 2015
Suzy Clarkson
Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention Bangor University
KiVa
Suzy - Research assistant - Programme and the research from Finland and Wales
Huw – Deputy Head from Llanllechid with some of his pupils – Teacher and pupil perspective of KiVa
Zoe – Social Research Unit Dartington – Taking KiVa to scale
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KiVa Anti-Bullying Programme
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• Developed and evaluated in Finland; Professor Christina Salmivalli at Turku University
• Commissioned by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture
• For over a decade no changes in bullying prevalence rates
• Legislative changes (1998, 2003) • Schools required to have policy (including action
plan or strategy against bullying)• Schools encouraged to self-invent programmes
Research on Bullying
• Bullying is a group process
• Bully’s behaviour: pursuit and maintenance of status and power within the group
• Bystanders’ behaviour: encourage, support, and maintain the bully’s behaviour
Foundations of KiVa: • By influencing the behaviour of classmates, we
can help to reduce the rewards gained by the bullies and consequently, their motivation to bully in the first place
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KiVa Antibullying ProgrammeKiVa is a structured and sytematic programme with a large amount of materials and concrete tools
Two componentsUniversal actions: Ten double lessons, online games, high-visibilty vests for playtime supervision, posters, and parent website
Indicated actions: KiVa team with scripted strategies for dealing with reported incidents of bullying. Indicated actions permit “victim’s voice” to be heard, allow bully to commit to a plan to support the victim, and class teacher to encourage pro-social support for victim.
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Finnish Randomised Controlled Trial
• 234 schools 117 intervention, 117 control
Finland > 30 000 students
• Wide age range (Grades 1-9, pupils 7-15 years of age)
Main Conclusions of the RCT• KiVa was effective in reducing (self- and peer-reported)
bullying and victimisation during the first nine months of implementation– The effects generalised to multiple forms of victimisation;
Verbal, social exclusion, physical, material, threats, racist, sexual and cyber
• Numerous positive effects on other outcomes;– empathy, self-esteem, school liking and academic
motivation etc.
• Decreases in depression and anxiety
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Finnish Rollout
• In 2009, Rollout commenced in 1,450 schools
• 880 schools included in further evaluations (N~150,000 pupils). Postive results were gained
• In 2010, +810 schools
• In 2011, +200 schools
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NOW: 90% of schools implement KiVa
Welsh Pilot study
• A small-scale pilot study involving 17 schools 14 in Wales and 3 in Cheshire (2012/2013)
- Unit 2 curriculum for 9-11 year olds• Training by KiVa team from Finland • Termly support meetings held with teachers in
three locations across Wales• Data collected
- Pre-post online pupil self-report survey
- Teacher mid- and end-point survey
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Pupil self-report results
Victimisation: t(12) =2.15, p =.027Bullying: t(12) =2.79, p =.008Final: Pupil sample n=472 School sample n=13
Teacher Feedback
• Teachers: enthusiastic and positive about the lesson content and structure
• Teachers: reported that 75-100% of pupils were engaged and enthusiastic about the lessons
• The majority of teachers reported that KiVa had a positive impact on: child well-being, behaviour, pro-social behaviour, and class and playground atmosphere
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Second year follow-up of Pilot School pupils
Mean percentage of self-reported victims and bullies from pupils in year five that received the intervention in 2012/3 and the same groups of children at the end of year 6 in schools where the programme has been continued.Data collected in year 5 in September 2012 and July 2013, and in year 6 in July 2014. The error bars represent the standard error.
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BIG Lottery funded RCT
• The pilot trial led to a Welsh BIG Lottery innovation funded RCT in 20 schools from across Wales
• RCT is being conducted by a partnership between the Social Research Unit Dartington and Bangor University
• RCT uses both Units 1 and 2 of the programme, delivered to whole of KS2, pupils age 7 to 11 years old
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The RCT
• 11 intervention, 9 wait list control
• We are now in Phase 2
• In Phase 1 (2013-2014) only the intervention schools delivered the programme, and Phase 2 (2014-2015) intervention and control schools delivered the programme
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RCT Outcomes
The funded trial will consider:
Bullying Pupil self-report
Victimisation Pupil self report
Mental well-being Teacher Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
Attendance Half day absences
Feedback from teachers, during the termly support sessions is extremely positive, both for lesson content and child engagement
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Training
Training for schools and for trainers
Dates:
28th – 29th April 2015 for schools
28th - 30th April 2015 for trainers
Cost and further details available from: [email protected]
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Thank you for listening
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Suzy Clarkson: [email protected]
Centre of Evidence based Early InterventionsBangor University