My wife and I were talking about this tonight. There are some programs that work and some that don't (and many others that haven't been evaluated). Bullying intervention is her area of research, and I'm a survey methodologist, but we were starting to wonder whether anyone has surveyed educator decisions about bullying program selection, development, and use.
Do educators tend to look for programs that are shown to be affected, or is that less important than other factors (even something as basic as costs or available time in the day)?
Is there a popularity/politics factor (e.g., a program that all the teachers like but has no empirical evidence behind it...I'm thinking of DARE here)?
Any leads to specific surveys or folks doing this specific kind of assessment of the educational practice context of bullying intervention would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Hi Matt,
I would check with Faye Mishna, Dean of SW at the University of Toronto. She is an expert in this area. [email protected]
You can also check the PrevNet website - it has a lot of information on bullying research, prevention, and policy development http://www.prevnet.ca/
Hope that helps!
Toula
I've conducted informal groups with school staff at self-contained (level 4) special education programs and they generally take it case by case outside of the common understanding that anything a peer considers harassment must be documented and addressed. Child Protective Services and the local police are options in those cases.
Specificallly, check out this site- it may give you some direction
http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/school-bullying-research-and-reports.aspx
http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/school-bullying-research-and-reports.aspx
Many have also found that peer facilitated mediation programs are also helpful
Hello,
You can have a look at the what works Clearinghouse website: ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ but also the Campbell Crime and Justice Group website with meta-analysis of intervention programs amongst them the one by Farrington and Ttofi on anti-bullying programmes : http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/
I also join a work we did for Plan International at the International Observatory of Violence in Schools (www.ijvs.org) that might be of some use.
Good luck for your work.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions!
I am pretty well-versed on the intervention/ efficacy literature. What I am looking for is information on how school administrators, counselors, etc. decide what intervention/prevention programs they will use for their school. What is the process and what criteria are used to choose a program?
For example, some schools that I have worked with are part of a state-wide effort to change school climate, spear-headed by the state's department of education (Maryland), whereas some schools the school counselor or principal is in charge of coming up with or choosing a program (and their criteria for choosing a program varies greatly).
Maybe someone has done a survey on this at some point?
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