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KiVa
Anti-Bullying Programme
Presentation at the Bangor Conference 2015
Suzy Clarkson
Centre for Evidence Based Early Intervention
Bangor University
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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)
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Schools required to have policy (including action
plan or strategy against bullying)
Schools encouraged to self-invent programmes
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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 Programme
KiVa is a structured and sytematic programme with a
large amount of materials and concrete tools
Two components
Universal 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 715 years of age)
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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
NOW: 90% of schools implement KiVa
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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
Mean percentage of pupils
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Pre-test
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Post-test
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Victim
Bully
Pupil self-report status
Victimisation: t(12) =2.15, p =.027
Bullying: t(12) =2.79, p =.008
Final: Pupil sample n=472 School sample n=13
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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.
25.00%
Mean Percentage
20.00%
15.00%
10.00%
5.00%
0.00%
Sep-12
Jul-13
Victims %
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Sep-12
Jul-13
Jul-14
Bullies %
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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
Suzy Clarkson: [email protected]
Centre of Evidence based Early Interventions
Bangor University
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