What happens over time to students identified as being at risk of falling behind in numeracy?

This study followed 191 students in 10 schools over three years, investigating what happens over time with students identified as at risk of falling behind in numeracy. The study uses data from a formative, national numeracy mapping test. The results show that students’ test scores often varies from one year to the next. Only 10 students were consistently identified as being at risk. A score pattern analysis revealed that they showed little progress from grade 1 to grade 2 in number concept and counting skills. This improved in grade 3, but they remained behind their peers in conceptual understanding and calculation skills. From a response to intervention perspective, these students would likely have benefitted from teaching interventions in grade 1 to familiarise them with the number line

Professional Moral Reasoning and (lack of) Empathy

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Young peoples' involvement in welfare service development—Is voice enough?—A thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Background: Young people need to be heard and take an active role in developing welfare services. When they are recognized as having skills and expertize, the advantages young people's involvement brings to both themselves and the organizations, are mobilization and empowering with impact on national decision‐making. Objective: To synthesize existing literature on how young people's involvement in coproduction can contribute to better welfare services. Search Strategy: We performed a systematic literature search in four databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO and Cinahl). Inclusion Criteria: Publications whose abstracts contained themes as: Young people 12–25 years of age, receiving welfare, youth coproduction/involvement/participation and qualitative studies. Data Extraction and Synthesis: Of the 5469 documents retrieved, the full text of 58 studies was read, of which seven studies met the inclusion criteria. A thematic synthesis following Thomas and Harden was used. Main Results: Young people being involved in coproduction of developing welfare services experienced to be valued and supported by partnerships, but they also pointed out deficiencies in welfare services. Some of the adolescents expressed not being listened to, lack of trusted relations and not being involved in policy making or prospects. The staff members saw some challenges with partnering with youth; as the need for flexibility, to keep the youth engaged and to purposefully meet the adolescents where they need help, guidance or resources. Conclusions: More involvement should be stressed. Coproduction is often symbolic more than resulting in real changes in the welfare services. Consequently, what is crucial when young people are involved is that they are encouraged by adults to be clear about the degree of involvement they want. Patient or Public Contribution: Patient and public involvement was not explicit in this review.publishedVersio

Dignity and care for people with dementia living in nursing homes

This article presents and discusses findings from a qualitative study on how the dignity of patients with dementia is preserved or harmed when they live in a nursing home. The results build on participant observation in two nursing home wards, combined with qualitative interviews with seven relatives of patients with dementia. The most important issue for relatives was that their family member with dementia was confirmed as a relational human being. However, relatives experienced lack of resources and task-centred care as threats to confirming, relational care and to patients' dignity. Findings from participant observations confirmed this. In this article, we argue that care which focuses on the residents' personhood, combined with a relational focus, is of great importance in maintaining the dignity of people with dementia living in nursing homes.Norges forskningsråd 19088