#028 – Dr Sam Baars and Iesha Small: Research roundup
6th December 2018
In this episode, Sam and Iesha talk through three pieces of research that hold particular interest for them:
- Capturing the Voices of Children in the Education Health and Care Plans: Are We There Yet? (published April 2018) Olympia Palikara, Susana Castro, Carolina Gaona and Vasiliki Eirinaki (School of Education, University of Roehampton)
- Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017 (published November 2018) NHS
- Depression of Key Stage 1 assessments in primary schools, FFT Education Datalab
In this episode Sam and Iesha:
- Talk about what interested them about these particular pieces of research
- Discuss the new SEND framework introduced in 2014
- Look at how children’s perspectives have been included
- Explore the variability in the ‘quality’ of the methods used to capture children’s views
- Shared their ethical reservations around the consent sought from participants
- Talked about mental illness and behavioural disorder rates in young people
- Identify mental illness as being much worse amongst LGBT teenagers
- Explain that one piece looked at pre-school children’s mental illness rates for the first time
- Identify the strong link between poverty and poor mental health
- Look at where the gaps are between ethnic groups and boys and girls’ mental health
- Talk about the difficulty in comparing performance data of infant schools and primary schools because KS1 and KS2 results are systematically different
- Look at what happened when KS1 assessment switched from externally marked tests to teacher assessment
Resources/people featured or mentioned:
- Bart Shaw
- LKMco Youth and education podcast 027 School Cultures and Practices
- Capturing the Voices of Children in the Education Health and Care Plans: Are We There Yet? (published April 2018) Olympia Palikara, Susana Castro, Carolina Gaona and Vasiliki Eirinaki (School of Education, University of Roehampton)
- Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017 (published November 2018) NHS
- BBC summary of the above report here
- Depression of Key Stage 1 assessments in primary schools, FFT Education Datalab
Clarification re the end of KS2 tests (TA assessed of not?)
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