Learning grouping and optionality: A follow-up study on weighted-curriculum paths in the City of Kerava

What is it about?

This project examines the new pupil grouping introduced in the City of Kerava in relation to the learning, motivation, wellbeing and school-related experiences of lower secondary school pupils as well as the educational choices of guardians. The goal is to investigate how non-class-based pupil grouping in weighted-curriculum education affects the development of pupils’ skills, wellbeing and experiences as well as the views of guardians in the Finnish urban environment of the 2020s.

The research project comprises three work packages where survey, interview and registry data are utilised to determine the following:

1. Are there differences in the learning, wellbeing and motivation of lower secondary school pupils

   A) on different weighted-curriculum education paths?

   B) in the reformed model and the old model?

2. How are the educational choices of adolescents constructed in comprehensive school and how do guardians perceive the weighted-curriculum education paths in relation to one another?

3. What kinds of experiences do adolescents have of different ways of grouping affecting their everyday school life?

You can find the privacy notice of the project (in Finnish) here.